We are looking for suppliers to support our data science and data engineering work, specifically for productionising work to create live solutions.

The suppliers will work alongside existing in-house digital development teams in two ways:

— we are currently building our data science and data engineering capability and will look for support in developing these skills/knowledge, this may include consultancy, filling temporary skills gaps and/or providing training and support),

— we are looking to make a significant transformation in a relatively short timeframe (3 years) and we have limited in-house resources; we are therefore looking for support to deliver discrete packages of work to increase our velocity.

The Authority is trying to achieve large scale data engineering and machine learning pipelines to transform the capability of the organisation. It is expected this work will both provide efficiency savings and create novel products. The market landscape is changing quickly as many companies which are embracing these technologies are making huge gains and transforming the way people work and do business.

The Authority has created a successful foundation of a data science team but now needs to accelerate the work. It has put significant effort into capability building across the organisation and this is having an impact. However, it is felt this is not enough and would like to bring in additional skilled resource to accelerate the change.

Some of the core data sets are of the TB order so will require big data technologies.

The types of data being processed will often have some point cloud, geospatial or big data element, but will also include images, video, text, time series.