Yorkshire Water has gone out to tender with an AMP7 contract for a GIS core platform and data model, including GIS Tooling, worth an estimated £8 million.
The water company said it has embarked upon a Transformation Programme to deliver new and improved business capabilities which will require enterprise-wide changes to process, people, systems and data.
This is underpinned by a Technology and Data strategy that will deliver a modern tech landscape, encompassing the full range of IT business applications including core platform technology, ERP, Customer Experience and provision of a Strategic Data Platform.
Spatial Information is core to Yorkshire Water’s business operations - the existing GIS system has evolved over many years and has been in use for a long time, supporting spatial information service requirements across the business. Several targeted business initiatives for specific departmental requirements also use a range of other GIS product platforms.
According to the water company, there is an ever increasing requirement to harness the intelligence of spatial information to develop new applications to support a number of functions, including:
- core asset management
- network maintenance
- customer services
- hydraulic modelling
- interaction with external partners and fulfilment of regulatory obligations
- integrating Spatial Information with other core data assets across Yorkshire Water.
Yorkshire Water has carried out a GIS Strategy review to take stock of what the company has, engage across the business to consolidate business requirements, review current technologies available and learn from other UK Water Industry initiatives.
The water company is identifying a Roadmap to the achievement of a new Target Operating Model for the delivery of integrated, high-quality capabilities and services to support the current and future Spatial Information Services needs of Yorkshire Water.
Via the procurement Yorkshire Water wants to select a new GIS core platform and data model and assess GIS core platform service provider's capability in the provision of GIS tooling.
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate is 19 August 2022 – click here to access the tender documentation.
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