# Public sector and health

> Early warning analytics, governed decision support and procurement for public bodies, including an algorithm that flagged a January 2020 spike in UK deaths.

URL: https://www.buildresil.com/sectors/public-sector
Last updated: 2026-11-01

Public bodies need to see emerging problems early and explain every decision. We build for both.

## What we do for the public sector

**Building Resilience gives public bodies early warning of emerging problems and decision support they can explain, with governance and privacy built in.**

- **Early warning and anomaly detection** for health, services and operations data.
- **Procurement design** that opens markets to capable suppliers while meeting standards.
- **Decision support** with traceable reasoning, human oversight and clear accountability. See [Governance](/governance).

## Evidence

- An early warning algorithm that flagged a significant spike in deaths in early January 2020, weeks before the first official COVID-19 case in the UK. [Read the case](/experience/algorithms-for-resilience).
- A procurement framework that cut a public social housing organization's procurement costs by 30%. [Read the case](/experience/social-housing-procurement).

## Questions people ask

### Can early warning analytics help public health?

Yes. Our early warning algorithm, applied to mortality data, identified a significant spike in deaths in early January 2020, weeks before the first official COVID-19 case was reported in the UK, giving quantitative evidence of the virus's early impact.


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