GMCA 717 Soft Market Testing Questionnaire - Exploring an approach to regional application developme...

<p><strong>THIS IS NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION</strong> - The GMCA wishes to undertake market research to inform a procurement approach to procure application development capabilities, and a managed service, for those applications. The GMCA currently utilises a low code platform provider to develop applications.</p>
<p><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;, sans-serif">The low code platform has been used to develop three key applications –</span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;, sans-serif; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Application</span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;, sans-serif; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Description</span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;, sans-serif">Early Years Application </span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;, sans-serif">Used by parents / carers of children in GM and the workers that support them to complete digital developmental assessments.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;, sans-serif">Smoking Cessation Application</span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;, sans-serif">Used by community midwifes to support pregnant women to stop smoking during pregnancy</span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0; line-height: normal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;, sans-serif">Early Years Competency Framework</span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0; line-height: normal; page-break-after: avoid"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;, sans-serif">Used by early years professionals to assess competencies </span></p>
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<p>Table 1 - Current applications developed on Low Code Platform</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1)"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;, sans-serif; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Current Situation </span></strong><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;, sans-serif">Our current contract with our low code platform provider is due to end in September 2023. While the current approach to developing the applications is via a low code platform, the GMCA is not wed exclusively to this approach, and we welcome interest from:</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol">·<span style="font: 7pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;, sans-serif">Low code platform providers</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol">·<span style="font: 7pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;, sans-serif">Bespoke application developers</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt"><span style="font-family: Symbol">·<span style="font: 7pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;, sans-serif">Other approaches – we welcome innovative approaches from the supplier market!</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;, sans-serif">Should the GMCA decide to move away from the current low code platform provider, the following must be considered when responding to this soft market testing exercise:</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;, sans-serif">-<span style="font: 7pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;, sans-serif">The existing applications in table 1 will need to be migrated away from the platform / redeveloped with as little disruption to current users as possible.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;, sans-serif">-<span style="font: 7pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;, sans-serif">Any replacement application must have the same look and feel as the existing applications.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><strong><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;, sans-serif">Future application development scoping - </span></strong><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;, sans-serif">As part of this testing exercise, the GMCA also wish to open space for potential future development work. This is likely to include wider digital service delivery underpinned by application development and web services. This will require significant future scoping work, but we would invite suppliers to consider their capabilities to deliver against our future growth in this area in their responses. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;, sans-serif">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;, sans-serif">Our vision for work and skills digital services involves “front door” web services for specific demographics, which could involve a range of services that respond to resident/ user needs. We envision this being built around apps and web services working together to create a single, easy point of service for young people.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;, sans-serif">We are therefore also interested in whether suppliers can deliver web development services in particular using the WordPress platform, and to work with us to develop and build these services in future – particularly making any updates that may be required to deliver them as part of a wider application.</span></p>
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