Genomics England seeks to implement a query layer to sit on top of a single location as tool that allows users or other apps to query the data. This means that the actual data can remain in place while the query layer handles providing the correct access and views of the data. The query layer will allow for simplified access control that can be rolled out downstream, scaling up and down on demand by controlling number of nodes and make it significantly easier to manage changes either to front end applications or upstream with ETL pipeline.
The contract will be for provision of an API, implementation of the solution plus 5 years of licencing and support.