Accelerating

the building of new

housing using better

geospatial intelligence Responding to the London Borough of

Waltham Forest GovTech Catalyst Challenge -

Call for Collaborators

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GovTech Catalyst Call for collaborators

Summary

Connected Places Catapult is seeking partners to develop a response to the

GovTech Catalyst challenge designed by the London Borough of Waltham

Forest. Launched on the 4th of March 2019 as part of the GovTech Catalyst

Round 4 challenge, final details are set to be announced on 15th July 2019.

The challenge specified is ‘Accelerating the building of new housing using

better Geospatial Intelligence’.

The initial phase of the SBRI competition seek bids from businesses wishing

to explore and prove the technical, scientific and commercial feasibility of

solving the challenge. The successful bidder will receive funds to conduct

Discovery research. The second phase will involve those successful in phase

1 bidding for funds to develop an Alpha product, with businesses then being

supported to take their products to market.

Partners Capabilities Sought

Connected Places Catapult has significant experience in understanding the

opportunities for digital transformation of the planning system that are very

relevant to this proposal but is seeking other partners to complement our

capabilities, in particular a lead partner who has the capability to take the

resulting product to market, in line with the requirements of SBRI.

We are seeking partners that have the capability to understand geospatial

data and analytics within the planning system and have the infrastructure to

take any Alpha product resulting from the discovery work to market including

the following capabilities –

• Database Management

• Data Analytics

• Data and software architecture

• Software development

• Software sales and marketing

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GovTech Catalyst Call for collaborators

Bid Concept

Connected Places Catapult has conducted discovery research and created

speculative prototypes in several projects which use geospatial data to

accelerate the process of developing homes through better use of data and

analytics to improve market information in the site allocation and monitoring

processes. The relevant projects are –

• Land Information Platform – How might the plan making process be

conducted within a geospatial platform? Instead of a human call for

sites, could we use machine learning to help identify potential

development sites?

• Small Developer De-risking tool – How might we bring together

different geospatial and local authority data-sets to provide greater

certainty to developers about the constraints of specific sites?

• Monitoring Housing Delivery – How might we use traditionally silo-ed

datasets to cross-check the quality of data and improve reporting

accuracy in monitoring housing?

• FuturePlan – How might we be able to use geospatial data from

planning application to measure the cumulative impact of

development?

We would like to find a partner with whom we can share our learning. We

would propose taking a leading role in any Discovery phase of the process,

drawing on our digital planning and city data knowledge. We would then

expect the selected partner take a leading role in the Alpha phase as the

concept moved closer to being a market-ready pilot

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GovTech Catalyst Call for collaborators

Registering Your Interest

Connected Places Catapult are currently seeking to partner with organisations

that are interested in the Bid concept, have the capabilities outlined above

and are interested in joining a consortium with the Connected Places

Catapult.

Connected Places Catapult are undertaking a formal process of selection for

interested organisations. All organisations interested in joining the consortia

are requested to register their interest by emailing Nathan Whittaker at

nathan.whittaker@cp.catapult.org.uk with the following:

• Two examples of recent, previous work which demonstrates the

organisation’s capability in providing the services required within this

project. Including explanation of the work carried out and the outcome

and achievements of the project (Maximum ½ page per example)

• An explanation of your understanding of and contribution to the bid

concept (Maximum ½ page)

Submission of the above information will be considered an expression of your

organisation’s interest to join the consortia. All registrations of interest must

be submitted by email by July 17th, 2019. The submissions will be reviewed by

Connected Places Catapult based on experience, capability and suitability and

you will receive a response on the outcome of your submission by no later

than July 20th 2019.

Any queries about the bid concept should be addressed to

nissa.shahid@cp.catapult.org.uk

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GovTech Catalyst Call for collaborators

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