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    Smart Data Challenge 2025

    Sponsored by the Department for Business and Trade (DBT), run through the Smart Data Challenge Programme (SDCP). The Moverly + OPDA entry won the SDCP Innovators prize in December 2025 for the Digital Property Pack use case. A companion Digital Identity entry was also submitted. Moverly — a founding member and key author of the original schema at the time — has since left OPDA and is no longer part of its membership, accreditation/approvals, or sandbox project; the prize remains a shared historical achievement.

    Public announcement

    OPDA's "Winners of the Smart Data Challenge 2025!" video (5:38) summarises the outcome. The original Moverly prize-pitch is on Vimeo: vimeo.com/1140770692, with transcript at source/05-engagement/videos-youtube/embedded/vimeo_1140770692.txt.

    The submission archive

    Every working document from the entry process, archived at source/06-research/smart-data-challenge/.

    DocumentPurpose
    Smart-Data-Open-Call-entry-form-FINAL Digital Property Pack.docx The Property Pack entry form (winner)
    Smart-Data-Open-Call-entry-form-FINAL - Digital ID.docx The Digital ID entry form (companion)
    Smart-Data-Challenge-Prize-Property Pack Feb 25.docx Prize follow-up — Property Pack
    Smart-Data-Challenge-Prize-Identity Feb 25 - submitted.docx Prize follow-up — Identity
    Smart Data Table Structure with member insights.xlsx Member-feedback summary on the proposed data table
    Industry costs and timings.xlsx Cost-benefit evidence base
    Lender costs and timings.xlsx Lender-side cost evidence
    Smart Data Report Comments.docx Member commentary on the DBT response
    20240726 DPMSG DSIT presentation.pptx The DPMSG presentation to DSIT that fed into the entry
    DPMSG roadmap.jpg Roadmap visual used in the submission

    The prototype

    The Moverly + OPDA prototype source code is in the cloned source/06-research/smart-data-challenge/code/ directory — a Firebase-backed Node.js application with a React front end. The repo has its own CLAUDE.md in case you want a developer-friendly walkthrough.

    Why it mattered

    Three things. First, it was the first government-recognised endorsement of PDTF as a viable Smart Data sector standard, validating the schema design for that programme. Second, it forced a working end-to-end demo across both property-pack and identity use cases — exercising parts of the spec that had only been theoretical. Third, the post-prize follow-up documents (Smart-Data-Challenge-Prize-*) include the cost & timings evidence that's been re-used in subsequent MHCLG and DSIT submissions.

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