Kent County Council (the Council) is the largest local authority in England covering an area of 3 500 square kilometres. It has an annual expenditure of over 1 000 000 000 GBP on goods and services and a population of 1 300 000. The Council provides a wide range of personal and strategic services on behalf of its residents, operating in partnership with 12 district councils and 289 parish/town councils.The Counter Fraud Tea...

Kent County Council (the Council) is the largest local authority in England covering an area of 3 500 square kilometres. It has an annual expenditure of over 1 000 000 000 GBP on goods and services and a population of 1 300 000. The Council provides a wide range of personal and strategic services on behalf of its residents, operating in partnership with 12 district councils and 289 parish/town councils.The Counter Fraud Team (CFT) work within the Council's Internal Audit function and wish to establish a Kent wide, cross Local Authority (LA's) intelligence sharing and analytics partnership, with the shared objective to detect, prevent and deter fraud and corruption.Kent Councils (the Kent County Council, its 12 Districts and one Unitary Authority) deliver the full range of Local Government services from social care to housing, waste and council tax administration. These councils alone, account for 3 % of total Local Government net revenue expenditure in England and are exposed to the entire spectrum of Local Government fraud risks.The project hopes to achieve savings by identifying fraud through data matching in council tax, business rates, social housing and procurement for all partners (listed in I.4) of this notice). The project intends to exploit previously unused datasets held by the partners (e.g. library, leisure memberships, and social housing waiting lists) and other organisations (e.g. companies house) with established datasets such as Blue Badges, credit reference agency data and payroll to undertake more sophisticated and frequent matches. This should enhance the quality of matches resulting in more efficient use of resources and reduced losses to fraud and error. The intention in the medium term will be to bring in other public bodies and additional private sector datasets.Traditionally the partners have not collaborated widely in relation to fraud prevention and detection, however they do work closely in certain areas including technology and information governance.In order to achieve this partnership, the Council will need to purchase a data analytic solution (software) that can analyse large datasets and identify anomalies that suggests fraud and/or error that require further investigation. The volumes of activity will be related to the number and size of datasets and frequency of matching.The Council is looking for an externally hosted solution and will not be hosting any part of the solution, software or data within its data centres.Tenderers can only respond via the Kent Business Portal (www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk).Once the tenderer has logged in to the Kent Business Portal and registered an interest in this opportunity, they will be emailed with an invitation to submit a tender and have access to all relevant documentation.

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