The Marketplace platform hosts specific business challenges that we pose to the wider market so that the best, most innovative ideas emerge. Challenges are open questions rather than asking for a price for a pre-determined solution, and we are open and transparent in our assessment of the solutions. This wider market approach delivers better value for our customers and the environment, through lowering cost or delivering wider outcomes.
Hand in hand with this, we use Marketplace to share our data, be that datasets that support these business challenges or standalone datasets of external interest. Besides increasing transparency, openly publishing data promotes collaboration and innovation, and enhances efficiency. We are committed to moving towards an open data by default position, where data is publicly accessible wherever possible.
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