Published date: 11 May 2020

Last edited date: 11 May 2020

This notice was replaced on 11 May 2020

This notice does not contain the most up-to-date information about this procurement. The most recent notice is:

Opportunity (published 11 May 2020, last edited 11 May 2020)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Aircraft and spacecraft - 34700000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£160,000 to £170,000

Procurement reference

TSC001-DN477596-18268809

Published date

11 May 2020

Closing date

1 June 2020

Contract start date

24 June 2020

Contract end date

31 March 2021

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

This Invitation to Tender (ITT) relates to a nine (9) month CR&D project to develop, build and test the Open-Access UTM framework for drone operations below 400ft. The project will include the development of the principal architectural features, communications interfaces and some of the services together with multi-stakeholder testing and simulations leading to field-trials. This ITT is being issued for the procurement of Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) expertise in the following areas:
• Experience of having developed own UTM platform, services and interfaces
• In-house software development capability with experience of aviation data
• Experience of collaborative development of UTM including necessary documentation
• Experience of flight-trials and evaluation

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Open access UTM build and test services

  • Opportunity
  • Published 11 May 2020, last edited 11 May 2020

About the buyer

Contact name

John Thompson

Address

3rd Floor The Pinnacle
170 Midsummer Boulevard
Milton Keynes
MK9 1BP
England

Email

procurement@cp.catapult.org.uk

Website

http://ts.catapult.org.uk