Published date: 16 August 2019

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: 13 September 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Library management system - 48161000

  • Database software package - 48611000

  • Database-management system - 48612000

    • Electronic data management (EDM) - 48613000

    • Data-acquisition system - 48614000

    • Engineering studies - 71335000

    • Data network management services - 72315200

    • Data analysis services - 72316000

    • Data storage services - 72317000

    • Added-value database services - 72321000

    • Data management services - 72322000

    • Content or data standardization and classification services - 72330000

    • Research consultancy services - 73210000

    • Development consultancy services - 73220000

    • Design and execution of research and development - 73300000

Location of contract

South East

Value of contract

£0 to £180,000

Procurement reference

20190816140132-72814

Published date

16 August 2019

Closing date

13 September 2019

Contract start date

30 September 2019

Contract end date

15 March 2020

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

UKAEA seeks to appoint a Consultant to help define its data provenance and engineering data ontology model for ongoing engineering and scientific projects. The work will involve the rollout of a system which meets our needs and furthers R&D related to the Open Source (OS) toolchain to use as part of UKAEA's Engineering Data Management (EDM) processes.

To realise the STEP ambition, UKAEA wishes to appoint a Consultant to help us instantiate an Engineering Data Management (EDM) system on site. This system will need to take into account that our requirements are driven entirely by future need and connections to enabling technology. This work will enhance our capabilities and assist the authority in the creation of a number of data ontologies for the provenance, storage and archival of engineering and other scientific simulation and experimental data. The creation of said storage and other ontological setups will allow the Authority to make a strong move into the data science regime. This change allows; more complete validation of data, simulation validation by software version to check for staleness, and allows for full referencing of data by DOI/UUID. This will allow crucial provenance checks of data to be made. Initial deliverables will include a strategy and generic specification for a number of database configurations (e.g. materials, experiment, etc) as part of STEP.

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About the buyer

Contact name

Vincent Tsang

Address

Culham Science Centre
Abingdon
OX14 3DB
ENG

Telephone

+44 1235466444

Email

vincent.tsang@ukaea.uk

Website

www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-atomic-energy-authority