Deployment

Specifying and Procuring UTMC

Requirements specification forms an important tool in ensuring that ITS based on the UTMC platform deliver benefit to the organisation. The key pointers to successful use of requirements specification are as follows:

• Ensure your ITS strategy is sufficiently clear for requirements to be traced to it;
• Ensure stakeholders requirements are captured and translated accurately;
• Develop requirements alongside procurement strategy, to ensure that it is usable for this purpose;
• Use good practice to capture and refine functional and non-functional requirements for the system/project itself.

As UTMC provides local authorities wider choice of suppliers, procurement strategies now include the traditional one-stop shop single supplier route to total de-packing and procurement of individual components. In reality, procurement of systems is likely to be packaged to reduce cost but with the minimum number of supplier equipment and software interfaces required.

Local authorities should ensure they have access to the right skills, either through their own staff or externally. In many cases, it will be necessary to work with suppliers of UTMC services and products who are likely to have an in-depth understanding of the technicalities associated with systems projects.