Regulatory Guidance Assistant

Role

Hitachi Solutions: Discovery, development and testing of solution plus 50/50 split in delivery management DDTS: Delivery management

Procurement procedure

The solution uses incumbent technologies available within Defra, primarily based on Azure cloud and MS Power Platform infrastructure, aligned with Defra CCoE best practice. Programme-level commercial arrangements with Hitachi, under the broader SERP contract, provide industry expertise in roles such as cloud architecture, data engineering, UR, UX, UI, content design, software development expertise and test capabilities, which is leveraged via specific outcomes-based Statements of Work for deploying the RSP Compliant project capabilities specifically.

Data access terms

All individuals involved in the build work held the appropriate Security Check (SC) clearance. The data sources used—limited to approved SharePoint locations and Content Cloud repositories—were authorised by the responsible Deputy Director prior to use. All material ingested or processed was at Official‑Sensitive (OS) or lower classification and already publicly available. At no stage were third‑party developers given access to personal data, sensitive information, or any form of Personally Identifiable Information (PII/PIII).