The Home Office is making plans to strengthen the national Fire and Rescue Data Platform (FaRDaP).
It has indicated in a market notice that it is looking for support in cloud hosting, infrastructure software, application software, helpdesk services, continuous improvement and change management, with a projected value on the work of £3.2 million.
FaRDaP has been built by Rowe IT under a £2.4 million contract to replace the Incident Reporting System for fire and rescue services.
It is used by 44 fire and rescue services across England, Wales and Scotland, serving approximately 20,000 users and capturing around two million records per year.
The Home Office plans to run a market engagement event with IT industry association techUK at the end of January.
Its GitHub page on FaRDaP says it shall enable multiple fire datasets to be collected electronically via multiple channels (web-based forms and services APIs) and transmitted securely between the Home Office and fire and rescue services. The system shall be a national repository of all fire datasets and shall also be capable of producing reports, downloads, enable quality assurance workflow and benchmark type analytics.
