Engineering Framework

This Lot provides access to suppliers with specialist capabilities in software engineering, applications design and modern digital delivery. It enables the Buyer to design, build, modernise and support high-quality digital products and services aligned to user needs, organisational strategy and secure engineering standards.

This Lot provides access to suppliers with specialist capabilities in AI, automation and intelligent systems design. It enables the Buyer to rethink and transform how they use people, data, technology and processes through the safe, ethical and effective adoption of AI

This Lot enables rapid procurement of expert service design capability. It supports the Buyer to redesign or create services that are user-centred, accessible, efficient and operationally sustainable, ensuring end-to-end alignment between people, processes, policy and technology. Suppliers under this Lot can provide individual designers, multidisciplinary teams or full end-to-end service redesign capability. Specialists may embed within agile delivery teams or support discovery, alpha, beta and live phases to ensure services are usable, accessible, efficient and sustainable.

This Lot enables rapid procurement of expert DevOps and platform engineering capabilities. It supports the Buyer to modernise infrastructure, enhance service reliability, adopt cloud-native delivery models and accelerate secure, automated delivery of digital services.

This Lot enables rapid procurement of specialist Product Design and UI/UX expertise to create high quality, accessible, and production ready digital interfaces. It ensures the Buyer can access designers who translate user needs and service requirements into intuitive, visually consistent and scalable digital products, supported by robust design systems, interaction patterns and developer ready assets. By providing access to end-to-end UI/UX capability across all delivery phases, this Lot helps teams build modern digital products that meet usability and accessibility standards, reduce friction for users and accelerate efficient front-end development.

This Lot relates exclusively to the British Business Bank’s external website estate and associated marketing digital platforms. The appointed supplier will act as a single strategic partner to the Marketing function, responsible for the end-to-end delivery, support, and continuous improvement of the Bank’s public-facing website(s), currently hosted on the Acquia Drupal platform.