Published date: 6 January 2025

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 24 January 2025, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research services - 73110000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£50,000 to £100,000

Procurement reference

BIP913471925

Published date

6 January 2025

Closing date

24 January 2025

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

31 January 2025

Contract end date

30 April 2025

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

Over our 30-year history, we have built a rich mine of grant data from the heritage projects we have funded. Whilst we have a number of closed-category fields and existing taxonomies we use for regular reporting, historically, we have had to manually tag and categorise this data to support broader reporting requirements. This is a time-consuming and resource-intensive process.

To aid this process, we want to test and pilot the possibility of using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to categorise historic (and evaluate its adaptability to incoming) grant data to meet our current and future thematic reporting requirements. We think this can be achieved through the application of targeted 'tags' applied to project information that is collected via both free text and closed-response fields. We are keen to test this by examining how AI could help across two specific sub-sets of our grant data, namely (i) grants relating to places of worship and (ii) information about the intended and actual beneficiaries of our grants.

This tender is split into two phases with a possible break clause after the discovery element. This will allow us to assess our requirements and develop a specification to guide us on the viability of proceeding to a possible proof-of-concept phase. In order to decide whether to move forward to a proof-of-concept and development of a trial product, the contractor will be required to use learnings from the discovery phase to demonstrate how the solution would work in practice with our workflows and activities using the subsets of data mentioned above (places of worship and beneficiary data) as an example.

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Additional text

The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement. The date and time provided at item 10 Deadline for Expressions of Interest - is the date and time for the receipt of Tenders. All clarification questions and tender returns must be submitted through the Delta E- tendering Portal.
Responses to clarification questions will be issued in batches and sent through the Delta portal and bidders should ensure that they check in regularly for these.
Item 9 - Estimated value of requirement please note that the Heritage Fund has a maximum budget and this is detailed in the ITT also please note that the estimated budget in this advert is for both phases - further information on the split of this budget is detailed in the ITT
The start and finish date provided in this notice is for information purposes only and may change.

About the buyer

Contact name

Procurement

Address

4th Floor Cannon Bridge House
25 Dowgate Hill
London
EC4R 2YA
UK

Telephone

07790792323

Email

tracey.keyes@heritagefund.org.uk