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Some relevant standards relating to urban operations and procurement include:

1) Recommendation ITU-T Y.4904 – Smart sustainable cities maturity model: This Recommendation
underscores a maturity model to identify the goals, levels and key measures that are
recommended for cities to examine their current situation effectively and determine critical
capabilities needed to progress towards the long-term goal of becoming SSCs.
2) Recommendation ITU-T Y.4906 – Assessment framework for the digital transformation of sectors
in smart cities. This Recommendation identifies the priority sectors in smart cities, in order to
optimize economic, environmental and social benefits. Based on this, cities will be able to
decide on their digital transformation priorities.

3) ISO 37106: This provides guidance on establishing smart city operating models for sustainable
communities. This includes a comparison of the characteristics of traditional city procurement
with smart city procurement such as collaborative commissioning focussed on outcomes, co-
design of requirements, helping to stimulate the supply market by being open about future
plans and requirements, and innovative delivery models that are multisectoral.

4) ISO/IEC 30182: This describes and gives guidance on a smart city concept model, which can
provide the basis of interoperability between component systems of a smart city, by aligning the
ontologies in use across different sectors. It includes concepts (e.g., ORGANIZATION, PLACE,
COMMUNITY, ITEM, METRIC, SERVICE, RESOURCE) and relationships between concepts (e.g.,
ORGANIZATION has RESOURCEs, EVENT at a PLACE).

The recently approved “U4SCC New Architecture for sustainable, digital development” provides a
framework of proto-standards called the MIMs (Minimal Interoperability Mechanism, currently on
its version 5), which can assist cities to procure interoperable digital platforms and tools, to avoid
vendor lock-in and to ensure that, regardless of the source, the platform or the application, data
can flow between the different layers and parties involved.

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