How to win: Smarter Digital Access Programme

About this contract

This Pipeline notice relates to the Smarter Digital Access Programme which is expected to comprise a number of separate procurements, for which further notices will be published as requirements and routes to market are developed. We anticipate the scope of the programme to cover: i) An IT professional services framework contract the ‘Digital Capability Framework’ potentially covering scope that may relate to Application Development, Engineering & Technical Infrastructure, Service Management, Enterprise Architecture and Data Services ii) non-strategic Software spend and Hardware spend iii) resource provision for Cyber Security labour-based requirements The estimated value stated in this notice represents the FCA’s current best estimate of potential aggregate expenditure across the programme. It does not represent a commitment to procure or spend this amount, nor the estimated value of any individual procurement and will be subject to internal FCA approvals.

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• ✓Answer against the marking scheme, not the question text — FCA scores each response, so map your evidence to the published criteria and weightings.
• ✓At £650,000,000, expect quality and social value to carry a large share of the score — price alone rarely wins services work.
• ✓Show recent, comparable delivery: name similar services contracts you've delivered for public bodies, with measurable outcomes.
• ✓Start early: deadlines are tight and a strong bid takes iteration.

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