--- title: "PS17172 NERC Dodona Operational Service" ocid: "ocds-b5fd17-7103d4c1-2921-4a99-b55b-fdccccfa2094" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-7103d4c1-2921-4a99-b55b-fdccccfa2094" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-7103d4c1-2921-4a99-b55b-fdccccfa2094.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-7103d4c1-2921-4a99-b55b-fdccccfa2094.json" source: "Contracts Finder" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED" published: "2017-11-16" --- # PS17172 NERC Dodona Operational Service Buyer: UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-b5fd17-7103d4c1-2921-4a99-b55b-fdccccfa2094 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-7103d4c1-2921-4a99-b55b-fdccccfa2094) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-7103d4c1-2921-4a99-b55b-fdccccfa2094.json) ## Summary The UK Shared Business Services Limited is initiating the procurement process for the "PS17172 NERC Dodona Operational Service". This contract falls within the custom software development services industry and is relevant to organisations in the data management and support services sector. The procurement is currently at the planning stage, with an engagement end date set for 23 February 2018. Interested parties had the opportunity to participate in a market engagement day on 20 October 2017, held at 1 Victoria Street, London. The total forecasted value of the contract is approximately £1,955,000 over an estimated five-year period. This tender provides significant opportunities for businesses looking to expand in data services and environmental research sectors. Companies with expertise in custom software development, data management, and innovation strategies will find themselves well-suited to compete for this contract. The emphasis on collaboration with diverse users to realise new data applications could prove beneficial for businesses aiming to showcase their capabilities in developing solutions that harness large-scale environmental data for research and innovation purposes. ## Notice *This is not a call for competition* NERC holds substantial amounts (10 to 15 PB) of environmental data, managed across its five data centres, which serves a research community who use this data to solve important social, technological and environmental problems. NERC want to build on the work of the data centres and further increase the impact and value of these data archives by making them more open and accessible to non-academic audiences, promoting data innovation and delivering economic and societal benefits. NERC is launching a strategic investment establishing an Environmental Data Service (Dodona EDS), with two primary objectives: 1. To use NERC's data assets and expertise to solve user-defined problems which are often multi-disciplinary, complex and may not map easily onto the expertise of a single data centre/research domain. 2. To realise new data applications and advances in science and innovation by combining NERC data with non-NERC data from other sources or disciplines. The Dodona EDS will create an overarching framework to provide access to NERC data, to broker user engagement with the data, to identify challenges and to help in direction of funding towards defined innovation programmes, and will be comprised of three components representing a total NERC investment of about PS10m: * A Dodona Operational Service (the subject of this Prior Information Notice), which will support and co-ordinate the delivery of the Dodona EDS including through a technical platform that will provide a preferred (but not exclusive) point of access into NERC data holdings. * Technical data integration activities under the management and direction of the NERC Data Centres. * NERC's data innovation programmes, under the management and direction of NERC Head Office. The Requirement The Dodona Operational Service, to be led by a Director, will have three main functions: 1. A brokerage and facilitation service, which will bring together potential new users and appropriate data to enable data innovation. 2. The development and management of the Dodona Portal, which may be built on already established and mature infrastructure, taking advantage of common standards and procedures in the NERC data centres and elsewhere, to allow users to discover datasets, metadata, and supporting documentation in an effective and efficient way. 3. The Coordination of the Dodona EDS, including seeking opportunities to grow the funding of the Dodona EDS from a range of potential data users. The maximum total value of this contract is forecast to be PS1,955,000 (exc. VAT) over an estimated 5 years. **UPDATE** A market engagement day was held on Friday 20 October 2017, 9am-1pm, at 1 Victoria Street, London. Please see attachments for more information regarding the market engagement day. Additional information: 4. Market Engagement Day **UPDATE** A market engagement day was held on Friday 20 October 2017, 9am-1pm, at 1 Victoria Street, London. The aim of the market engagement day was to provide opportunities to understand the background of the requirement, and to enable interested parties to ask questions of NERC and UK SBS about the requirement and procurement process. Please see attached presentation slides and agenda from the market engagement day for more information. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Contracts Finder | | Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/90c99ade-949f-4685-b672-cec3241ec225 | | Notice type | Market Engagement Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Not specified | | Procurement method | Not Specified | | Procurement method details | Not specified | | Tender suitability | Not specified | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Planning | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 16 Nov 2017 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 23 Feb 2018 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | Not specified | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | Not specified | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Planning | | Lots status | Not specified | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED | | Locality | SWINDON | | Post town | Swindon | | Postcode | SN2 1FF | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLK South West (England) | | ITL 2 | TLK7 Gloucestershire and Wiltshire | | ITL 3 | TLK71 Swindon | | Local authority | Swindon | | Electoral ward | Rodbourne Cheney | | Westminster constituency | Swindon North | | Delivery location | TLK South West (England) | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support ### Codes - 72230000 - Custom software development services - 72315000 - Data network management and support services ## Release History - 16 Nov 2017 at 15:04 - Planning - Market Engagement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/90c99ade-949f-4685-b672-cec3241ec225 - 16 Nov 2017 at 15:02 - Planning - Market Engagement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/90c99ade-949f-4685-b672-cec3241ec225 - 6 Oct 2017 at 11:15 - Planning - Market Engagement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/90c99ade-949f-4685-b672-cec3241ec225 ## Documents - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/90c99ade-949f-4685-b672-cec3241ec225 16th November 2017 - Early engagement notice on Contracts Finder - http://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:377018-2017:TEXT:EN:HTML Prior Information Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/46b89e3c-891b-451b-a320-687a6a2f84d4 Agenda - Market Engagement Day 20 October 2017 - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/799c0459-8ad2-4465-addf-c191600fcdc3 Presentation Slides - Market Engagement Day 20 October 2017 ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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