Published date: 12 February 2024

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


Closing: 16 January 2024, 11am

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£0 to £45,000

Procurement reference

tender_399615/1311448

Published date

12 February 2024

Closing date

16 January 2024

Closing time

11am

Contract start date

6 February 2024

Contract end date

30 April 2024

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

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

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

***** THIS IS AN AWARD NOTICE, NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION *****

This procurement is being concluded following a competitive procurement exercise.

Brief Description of Requirement

RISC-V is an instruction set architecture (ISA). An ISA defines the set of instructions that can be used by software running on a computer processor, linking hardware and software. The design of an ISA is fundamental to the security of systems built on processors that implement it.
RISC-V is managed by the non-profit, RISC-V International, who manage the definition of the minimal base instruction set and a series of Instruction Set Extensions. As the Instruction Set Architecture and Instruction Set Extensions are publicly available, anyone can produce a processor design that implements the instruction set, royalty free, thereby lowering barriers to entry. RISC-V is widely used in academia and has emerging industrial potential.
Although RISC-V is open standard, there is no requirement for its implementations to be open. While there are a range of open-source implementations, there are also a growing range of companies who are creating proprietary RISC-V products and licensing them to the wider market, including in the UK.

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Award information

Awarded date

30 January 2024

Contract start date

6 February 2024

Contract end date

30 April 2024

Total value of contract

£42,050

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Briscoe Advisory Ltd

Address

Rimes Cottage, Kingston Bagpuize, Abingdon, OX135AY

Reference

No reference - other

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

Polaris House, North Star Avenue
Swindon
SN2 1FF
England

Email

professionalservices@uksbs.co.uk