Sedgemoor District Council

Outcome of Expression of Interest: Not shortlisted

Applicant details

Project title: Understand key re-usable commodity components for use across proprietary systems

Current stage: Discovery

Partners involved: We have a number of potential partners in mind but we have not had an opportunity to bring them into the bid yet. We’d like to introduce other Local Authority partners if this bid is selected to go forward to the next stage.

Discovery summary

Digital Components

We are procuring a ‘Digital Platform’ upon which we will redesign each of our customer facing, internal, and partner processes. Key to our specification has been a set of ‘digital components’ that we require that the platform either has, or can reach out to.

This has resulted in a map of the common components which are typically embedded and repeated across proprietary systems.

We want to discover

which are the most re-usable commodity components – for example
- Workflow
- Customer Index
- Data Matching
- Consent Bank
- Records Management
what are the existing data standards and APIs that would make these components interoperable;
where are new standards required;
how might a market for components be established;
how ready are suppliers of proprietary products to componentise their offerings, and reduce the need for a council to repeatedly purchase the same functionality for each service area;
the potential for savings and efficiency for a council adopting selected components.

We would expect to engage with

iStandUK and councils who are subscribers
TechUK
SOCITM

Training requests

Digital leadership training (for council leaders, service managers or senior executives)
Introduction to user research
Introduction to service design
Agile for teams

Other training requests

The Council has already trained a number of staff to DSDM Agile practitioner level. We would like to re-inforce that with ‘GDS Agile Teams’ training and tools to ensure that we can collaborate with other teams.