The Data Strategy Working Group is seeking proposals from qualified proponents on two separate projects that will advance data-driven decision making for the BC wine grape industry.
Project 1: To design and deliver a Data Foundations and Implementation Framework for the BC wine grape industry.
This project will establish a clear understanding of:
- The priority data required to support sector-wide decision-making
- The current data landscape, including key datasets, owners, and systems
- Critical gaps, inefficiencies, and barriers limiting data use and coordination
- Viable models for governance, stewardship, and long-term data system sustainability
Specifically, the project will:
- Engage stakeholders to define decision-driven data requirements
- Conduct a sector-wide data inventory and map data flows across organizations
- Analyze gaps, redundancies, and constraints affecting data accessibility and use
- Identify and assess relevant data practices and benchmarks from comparable jurisdictions
- Develop and evaluate options for coordinated data governance and system architecture
- Assess feasibility, costs, risks, and value of implementation scenarios
- Consider future data growth, storage requirements, and emerging technologies (including AI) to support a system that remains adaptable
- Develop a phased roadmap to guide the implementation of a coordinated data system
The resulting framework must be practical, defensible, and scalable across the diverse structure of the BC wine grape industry, and support long-term data stewardship and sustainability.
Click here to view the full RFP.
Project 2: To identify, evaluate, and recommend the most viable long-term digital decision-support system (DSS) for the BC wine grape industry.
The project will:
- Assess the suitability of existing and emerging DSS platforms for BC viticulture
- Develop and compare 3–4 strategic scenarios (e.g., expand existing platform, adopt an alternative, or develop a new solution)
- Evaluate each scenario across functionality, interoperability, governance, and long-term adaptability
- Assess 10-year financial requirements, funding models, and adoption risks
- Recommend a preferred scenario and define conditions required for successful implementation
The resulting assessment must be practical, evidence-based, and financially realistic, and aligned with the operational constraints of the sector.
Click here to view the full RFP.
Application deadline: 17:00 PDT Friday, April 10, 2026.
