Published date: 16 August 2021

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 29 July 2021, 5pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

Location of contract

South East

Value of contract

£6,680,241.54

Procurement reference

701575541

Published date

16 August 2021

Closing date

29 July 2021

Closing time

5pm

Contract start date

16 August 2021

Contract end date

31 March 2023

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Call-off from a framework agreement

A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established framework agreement.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

It is critical that the Army has an accurate, timely and predictive understanding of the environment it is operating in. This includes situations where sub-threshold and grey zone operations are the norm. Unless there is significant investment in the Army's Land Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) capability it will not be capable of meeting this requirement.

The current Land ISTAR capability is unable to exploit Defence and National Intelligence capabilities which have an increasingly temporal and tactical fidelity. Poor connectivity also means that Land's contribution to the wider Single Intelligence Environment is low.

The current Land ISTAR capability privileges collection that focuses on the physical dimension, this must be balanced with an equal emphasis on the virtual and cognitive dimensions. This will potentially be met through StratCom projects, though there are serious concerns about the funding of these critical Land dependencies.

Project ZODIAC is the core of the Land ISTAR programme. This project will provide a system that integrates the individual ISTAR sensors into a coherent network and both speeds and improves our ISTAR cycle with Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled automation including the following functions: Intelligence Requirements Management, ISTAR sensor planning, command and control of sensors (including x-cueing) and processing. ZODIAC will work closely in conjunction with HYDRA which will deliver a cloud-based, fusion and analytic capability that provides the storage, fusion and integrated big data-analytic aspects of the Intelligence process. The operation of this ZODIAC/HYDRA system will not be confined to operational field deployments but will stretch back to the home base and allow the Army's ISR operators to be persistently engaged in the development of intelligence. LE TacCIS provides the field network and connectivity upon which the future Land ISTAR systems will operate and the aim is for any significant battlefield sensor (including AJAX, BOXER, GBAD, APACHE and WILDCAT) to be able to interface with ZODIAC. They are also exploring integration of Air and Maritime sensors through bi-laterals with the other single Services. Enterprise IT (MODNET and NSoIT(D)) will provide the ISTAR connectivity and network support for the firm bases.

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Award information

Awarded date

12 August 2021

Contract start date

16 August 2021

Contract end date

31 March 2023

Total value of contract

£6,680,241.54

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

ROKE MANOR RESEARCH LIMITED

Address

Roke Manor,Old Salisbury Lane
ROMSEY
Hampshire
SO51 0ZN
GB

Reference

Companies House number: 00267550

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

Additional details

Non-guaranteed Ad-Hoc Tasking Value of £3,200,000 ex VAT for any additional work identified

About the buyer

Address

D Info Commercial, IDL 1, Blenheim Bldg
Army HQ
Andover
SP11 8HJ
England

Email

pauline.hewish662@mod.gov.uk