Strategic software developer and infrastructure partner/s to support regional digital transformation in Greater Manchester

The procurement aims to consolidate the GMCA's existing Mendix Platform license provision and delivery partner arrangements. This will include: 1. Mendix Platform licenses to support both current and any new applications built on the Mendix Platform. 2. A Mendix delivery partner to support the GMCA with enriching existing digital products and the development of new products. 3. The provision of a Mendix Platform managed service to support live applications. There is an opportunity within this lot to bid for the development of the Greater Manchester Our Pass Application: The Our Pass App - Our Pass was launched by the GM Mayor in 2019 to broaden the horizons of young people in GM and provide greater access to educational, leisure, social and culture activities. Our Pass provides free bus travel, discounted tram travel, and Exclusives (offers, events, discounts) for the Our Pass user. It is likely that this will include: - Complete a discovery project to better understand the current opportunity around Our Pass - Develop a new, feature-rich app that improves user experience, integrating the travel offer with the existing Exclusives service (currently an independent web app).

The GMCA is looking to procure the services of a strategic application developer partner to both support existing, and develop new low-code (non-Mendix Platform) and bespoke code applications. The procurement will provide an opportunity for the GM public sector system to draw down on application developer skills and capacity to support both work led by the GMCA, and potentially other partner organisations, across GM. It is envisaged that this will include services to support the breadth of the Government Digital Service Manual (product discovery through to retirement) including, but not limited to, UI/UX services, user research, business analysis and software developer services. There is an opportunity within this lot to bid for the development of the Greater Manchester Our Pass Application: The Our Pass App - Our Pass was launched by the GM Mayor in 2019 to broaden the horizons of young people in GM and provide greater access to educational, leisure, social and culture activities. Our Pass provides free bus travel, discounted tram travel, and Exclusives (offers, events, discounts) for the Our Pass user. It is likely that this will include: - Complete a discovery project to better understand the current opportunity around Our Pass - Develop a new, feature-rich app that improves user experience, integrating the travel offer with the existing Exclusives service (currently an independent web app).

The GMCA is looking to procure the services of a strategic cloud infrastructure partner. This will include providing a managed service for GMCA's existing cloud infrastructure. This is largely build in Microsoft Azure, however, there is also some limited AWS infrastructure. There are no plans to move from the predominantly Microsoft Azure hosted arrangements.