The IDeA – a subsidiary of the Local Government Association (LGA) –requires a service provider to deliver hosting, development, content management (including database element), design and content migration services; taxonomy technical support skills and expert project/facilitation capacity to operate, enhance, promote and deliver an online service (LG Inform Plus) to support the local government sector and its partners in information management practices. This programme includes the provision of contextual and performance data served to external applications through a direct data feed and a range of tailored online tools and applications to support small area reporting, managing open linked data publishing,information governance, information sharing standards and specific tools and data sets.

The IDeA requires a service provider to deliver hosting, development, content management (including database element), design and content migration services; taxonomy technical support skills and expert project/facilitation capacity to operate, enhance, promote and deliver an online service (LG Inform Plus) to support the local government sector and its partners in information management practices. This programme includes the provision of context and performance data served to external applications through a direct data feed and a range of tailored online tools and applications to support small area reporting, managing open linked data publishing, information sharing standards and specific tools and data sets. Services provided by the service provider will include IT-specialist skills, web-delivery and database service design and development, expertise in local government data standards, Linked Data and public sector taxonomies and semantics. It also includes personnel support in the form of facilitators, project leaders and expert consultancy services to local authorities in the area of knowledge sharing, local government business transformation management and evidencing performance management, analysis and presentation. The LG Inform Plus service will be required to continue or replace the current website.