# National Data Architecture \(NDA\) - Data Management

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [NHS Digital](/buyers/nhs-digital/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: AB INITIO SOFTWARE LIMITED
- Award value: £734,000
- Tender value: £734,000
- Award date: 30 June 2018
- Published: 22 March 2019
- Contract start: 1 July 2018
- Contract end: 30 June 2019
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: a8fc520c-6425-4192-81fa-ca8f5eed8ee2-277782
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-179fec16-2fe3-4b40-a250-cd9b760d7820

## Description

This requirement is for the ability to use Ab Initio's software, to allow the NDA programme to progress with Beta stage work\. Ab Initio has a meta data management tool, used to provide: • Information about data such as data attribute names, data attribute nomenclature, relationships between attributes, data policies etc\. • An authoritative source of meta data providing a catalogue of data attributes or groups of data attributes and their associated definitions, polices etc\. • Linking of data attributes from source to destination model, module, DDB etc\. • Relationships between data attributes providing a hierarchy where applicable for re-use of common data attribute policies etc\. • Tagging information about data attributes which explain how these data attributes group together into modules and/or DDB's • Versioning and historical information of data attributes, definitions, policies, DDB's, modules etc\. • Cardinality relationship information between data attributes, definitions, policies, DDB's, modules etc\. • Linking information between reference data and associated meta data\. • Intelligent data ingestion from various sources including; excel, XML, Databases, Data warehouses, schemas, SQL, ETL

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/a8fc520c-6425-4192-81fa-ca8f5eed8ee2-277782)