Report for August 2019

Report Date

August 2019

Achievements this period

• Good progress was made on defining the mandatory requirements for the procurement, with an initial draft produced

• The IS owned procurement question sets have been validated by the project team

• Updated procurement strategy for review by project team

Issues

• Procurement strategy still to be signed off by project sponsor; this will be resolved in the first half of September, in advance of the Invitation to Tender (ITT)
• The project milestones were reviewed, and revised milestones approved following discussions with the project team and the project sponsor (programme owner).  Additional time is required to complete the mandatory requirements, the contextual metrics document and the scenarios we want to see bidders demonstrate.  In order to complete these tasks, and taking into account upcoming holidays for key members of the team during September, it is expected the requirements specification will now be completed by the end of September.  Subsequent milestones were pushed back as a consequence.

Next Steps

• Sign off procurement strategy
• Finalise the mandatory requirements, contextual metrics and the scenarios to be put forward to bidders to demonstrate; alongside the evaluation process and weightings.
• Complete requirements specification for tender; ready for approval by the Core Systems Programme Board