Published date: 9 October 2025
Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.
Contract summary
Industry
Research and development consultancy services - 73200000
Location of contract
Any region
Value of contract
£0 to £5,300,000
Procurement reference
tender_461150/1523089
Published date
9 October 2025
Closing date
9 October 2024
Closing time
12pm
Contract start date
21 October 2024
Contract end date
31 March 2025
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system
A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established dynamic purchasing system.
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
Yes
Description
The Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (AISI), a directorate of the Department of Science and Innovation Technology, has the mission of minimising the surprise to the UK and humanity from rapid and unexpected advances in AI.
In pursuit of this objective, AISI aims to offer vital insights into the advanced capabilities of frontier AI by conducting safety testing and carrying out AI safety research. The Research Unit of AISI needs to source external evaluations, which are programs that assess the dangerous
capabilities of frontier models, to massively increase the number of evaluations in our suite. AISI additionally carries out research into models' compliance with harmful requests ('refusals') and the ability to find vulnerabilities that mitigate these ('jailbreaks'). This contract is for the administration of this evaluation fund.
Award information
Awarded date
21 October 2024
Contract start date
21 October 2024
Contract end date
31 March 2025
Total value of contract
£2,300,000
This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.
Smarter Society
Address
27 Old Gloucester Street, London, WC1N 3AX
Reference
Companies House number: 09874339
Supplier is SME?
Yes
Supplier is VCSE?
No
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