Anglian Water has gone out to tender with a framework contract for data and digital services worth an estimated £25 million.

The wide-ranging framework is seeking to put in place appropriately skilled external resources to work collaboratively within multi party/multi-disciplinary teams working in a number of different areas, including:

• Human centred design and design thinking (i.e. design sprints);
• UX and UI design (including design pattern development);
• Hackathons;
• Design and delivery of multi-experience solutions (mobile, PWA, conversational, immersive and wearables);
• monitoring and analytics for digital products;
• process and workflow automation;
• API design, delivery and management;
• Crowdsourcing and crowd solving;
• Application development in a variety of modern coding languages;
• automation and testing tools 
• data quality (especially automation of);
• information security and risk management;
• privacy, ethics and data protection guidance;
• augmented data management;
• information management, search and discovery for all data types 
• Blockchain;
• analytics and data sciences (including geospatial, IoT, stream and event analytics, conversational analytics, data modelling, meta and master data management, continuous intelligence;
• AI and ML tooling and capability including commercial AI/ML

Anglian Water is looking to put a framework agreement in place consisting of Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers which will be used to support and enhance the company’s in-house capabilities.

Initial contract term is four years with a further extension option of up to four years.

Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate is 19^th October 2020 – click here to access the tender documentation.