Procurement - a key process to help integration
Your local authority's procurement process is the gatekeeper to its I.T. ecosystem. It involves a stringent evaluation of software against defined criteria ensuring it can perform as it should.
The procurement process can therefore be used as a mechanism to only permit systems capable of consuming address or street data in the required way.
But defining effective criteria is difficult, and there is a huge amount of complexity within the data so how do you do this?
The following article outlines these challenges and signposts useful resources:
Perfecting procurement to deliver the golden thread of location data for public services
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