The Danish Maritime Authority offers a contract for the purchase of development and implementation services in connection with the development of the IT system The Digital Sea Plan. The project is a derived result of a political decision to want to digitize the Danish sea plan, cf. the Act on Maritime Physical Planning. The project is carried out as an agile course.
The contract concerns the development and delivery of the Digital Sea Plan. The sea plan must be designed as a digital map, where users - citizens, businesses, interest organizations and authorities - can see the different zones, click into a zone and see what is planned in the current zone and read the announcement text which determines which conditions, that applies to the zone. Users must also be able to search for information across the zones. The digital sea plan must contain editorial content in the form of news, information pages and the like, in addition to card documents and legal texts on the zones. When the sea plan is in consultation, users must have the opportunity to respond, either in the form of a consultation response given to a particular zone (or a point or area in the zone) or to the overall ocean plan.
The system must be operated by the state's IT on their standard platform and environments, while maintenance after the system has come into operation, is included in a shorter period, cf. II.2.11 option.
The system must function as a digital legal binding sea plan in Denmark. The project is launched as a derived result of a political decision to want to digitize the Danish sea plan, cf. the Maritime Physical Planning Act. The Digital Sea Plan must thus be able to display legally binding maps with accompanying executive texts, information plans on the sea plan and support consultation processes of the sea plan and marine plan supplements. The Digital Sea Plan must consist of a back end, where you can manage the system, update information pages, handle incoming consultation responses and put the ocean plan in an internal workflow on the agency that supports quality assurance, approval and announcement of final sea level versions, and a front end where one can see which marine areas are laid out for which purposes and the applicable rules for this and submit and read the consultation responses.
As a starting point, the solution is built on standard software consisting of a Content Management System expanded with a map display module, consultation process module and a module for internal approval and quality assurance of the legally binding sea plan.
There are high demands on the safety of proclaiming the sea plan, so that there is both high reliability and a high degree of certainty for the authenticity of the notified sea plan, corresponding to the requirements imposed on the publication of the Law Gazette in electronic form.
Notification in the Law Gazette in electronic form requires a very high degree of security in the systems used for the production and dissemination of the law, in order to prevent the contained laws being accidentally or illegally destroyed, lost or altered. In addition, the announcement must be made in an authoritative and proof-proof manner. The offered solution is only intended for exhibition, display and quality assurance of the sea plan, not the production of the sea plan. The production will take place in the desk top GIS tool, after which it will be uploaded in the system.
The Danish Maritime Authority focuses on agile development, and the Agency attaches importance to the supplier's employees having experience with the method, and they must be able to be physically present in the agency in order to utilize the synergies that this form of development allows, including the connection to the business.