How to win: Regional Data Platform

About this contract

1.1. This market engagement exercise is being run in accordance with Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority’s (the Authority) Contract Procedure Rules and (if relevant) the Procurement Act 2023. 1.2. The purpose of this exercise is to help the Authority, and the market prepare for a potential procurement in the future. It will be managed in a way that ensures no supplier is given an unfair advantage or distort competition. 1.3. Participation in this market engagement exercise does not infer any rights or advantage in relation to any future procurement process. Potential responders will not be prejudiced in any future procurement processes by either responding or not responding to this soft market test exercise. 1.4. All information provided to and received from suppliers in relation to this market engagement is confidential. However, please be aware that the Authority is subject to the disclosure requirements of the FOI Act and that any information we hold is liable to disclosure under that Act. For this reason, we strongly advise that any information you consider to be confidential is labelled as such. In the event that a request is made for disclosure under FOI, the

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• ✓Answer against the marking scheme, not the question text — Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority scores each response, so map your evidence to the published criteria and weightings.
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