Published date: 11 May 2020

Last edited date: 11 May 2020

This notice was replaced on 11 May 2020

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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

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