Published date: 24 August 2022

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


Closing: 8 July 2022, 11:59pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Software package and information systems - 48000000

Location of contract

SP4 0JQ

Value of contract

£149,717

Procurement reference

DSTL0000006356

Published date

24 August 2022

Closing date

8 July 2022

Closing time

11:59pm

Contract start date

1 September 2022

Contract end date

31 August 2023

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Single tender action (below threshold)

A direct contract with a single supplier, without competition.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The Research and Development submission to the Strategic Review (SR20) recognised the need to advance MOD's ability to adopt critical and game-changing technology, enabling autonomous systems on the battlefield and in the command space through the use of artificial intelligence. It proposed to do this by establishing a Defence AI Centre with the science and technology component delivered by a Defence AI Centre Experimentation hub (DAIC-X) led by Dstl.

A key objective for DAIC-X is to understand and develop good practice in managing AI verification, validation, vulnerabilities as well as wider issues including trust and transparency and legal and ethical considerations.

This task will research the potential to exploit artificial intelligence explainability (XAI) methodologies to identify and expose vulnerabilities in neural network-based machine vision algorithms.

Please see the attached Tasking Form for further information regarding this award.

More information

Attachments

Award information

Awarded date

4 August 2022

Contract start date

1 September 2022

Contract end date

31 August 2023

Total value of contract

£149,717

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

City, University of London

Address

City, University of London
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB

Reference

Companies House number: RC000121

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Commercial CIS Transparency

Address

Porton Down
SALISBURY
SP40JQ
England

Email

commercialcistransparency@dstl.gov.uk