Essex County Council has announced its aims to create a data share platform in order to improve its social, education, health and economic services.

The council seeks to engage with suppliers to develop a data hub and will launch a tender process in January 2016. It has announced plans to initially develop a prototype that will focus on families and households before extending the platform fully.

Beyond some of the initial platform requirements - such as the support of anonymisation and pseudonymisation of data, the possibility of sharing data, the support of predictive risk modelling and reports trough dashboards – the council wants to know whether suppliers can also provide a system to perform predictive modelling against certain behaviours.

Potential partners have until the end of the month to submit their proposals.

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