Enterprise Architecture Transformation Tool

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    "description": "Essex County Council (ECC) are seeking a comprehensive Enterprise Architecture Transformation Tool to support the Council's ongoing Local Government Reorganisation journey.\nECC is undertaking this Preliminary market engagement notice (PME) to engage with potential suppliers to understand market capability and available solutions to help develop the Authority's requirements and inform the procurement strategy.\nECC is looking to understand more about tools that can provide the following outcomes:\n•\tHelp manage and simplify the complexities of our transformation, guiding robust decision-making around investment priorities.\n•\tDeliver actionable insights for Operations, Products, Cyber, and Functional Services teams, underpinned by measurable Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that track the business maturity, resilience, user outcomes, and service performance.\n•\tEnable the enterprise architecture to clearly demonstrate value, inform and justify decisions to enhance services, reduce organisational risk, and improve the experience for users.\n•\tIntegrate seamlessly with ECC's existing digital platforms and services across multiple tenancies, handle large volumes of data, and provide outputs that are accessible and useful for officers at all levels within the council.\n•\tOffer a maturity model that has proven effective in other local government authorities, to support ECC throughout this significant transformation.\n•\tAssess and map the digital and data assets across the Essex region.\n•\tSupport the consolidation and rationalisation of the digital applications and contracts to achieve greater efficiency.\n•\tProvide visibility into known and unknown areas, with the ability to prioritise and rank risks, thereby strengthening decision-making.\nIn summary, ECC require a mature, proven tool that will not only enable it to govern and improve its transformation journey, but also drive business value, mitigate risks, and deliver measurable outcomes for teams and communities.\nECC is in its earliest stages of generating requirements and therefore for any future potential procurement opportunity for an Enterprise Architecture Transformation Tool, it is anticipated that requirements, scope and timelines will be refined/amended following PME. Therefore, there is no commitment or guarantee that procurement activity will go ahead.",
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        "dueDate": "2026-04-17T23:59:59+01:00",
        "description": "Essex County Council (ECC) is looking to procure an Enterprise Architecture Transformation Tool and is undertaking this preliminary market engagement notice (PME) to inform and refine its procurement strategy. This exercise is designed to engage with potential suppliers to understand market capability and available solutions, to help develop ECC's requirements and shape the procurement strategy as well as identifying potential suppliers.\nECC are inviting interested suppliers that are capable of providing an Enterprise Architecture Transformation Tool to complete a questionnaire via the following Microsoft forms link: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=TzK0qFwVFUKg8X7YzJqZL_NQttUmjkZGpRuzAQaQEptUQUJVUFlKWVU2Q0VYRDhNRllGMVlSTTZDWS4u Responses are to be submitted by 17th April 2026 at 5pm. If you are having any issues with the link, please reach out via email. \nFollowing review of responses, ECC may reach out to interested suppliers to organise demos or for further discussion. If demos are to be arranged, they will be held via teams or on site at County Hall, Market Road, Chelmsford, CM1 1QH. \nPlease note this PME notice/request for information is not intended as a call for competition and as such you will need to express your interest in any potential future tender opportunity. Responding to this PME does not constitute a tender submission, a quotation, or any binding commitment to procure these services. Please note there is no commitment or guarantee that procurement activity will go ahead.\nParticipation is voluntary and will neither benefit nor disadvantage any supplier in any potential future procurement opportunity. Responses to the questionnaire will be treated confidentially."
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