Published date: 9 May 2022
Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.
Contract summary
Industry
Software package and information systems - 48000000
Location of contract
SP4 0JQ
Value of contract
£349,718.06
Procurement reference
Serapis Lot 6, Task No: U86
Published date
9 May 2022
Closing date
22 March 2022
Closing time
5pm
Contract start date
25 April 2022
Contract end date
31 March 2024
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Call-off from a framework agreement
A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established framework agreement.
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
No
Description
Dstl wishes to establish a system via which Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) collection assets can be optimally tasked against a desired list of collections in order to deliver a Generation After Next capability for situational awareness, sense making and understanding.
As a core component to demonstrating the Reactive ISR concept, the work outlined in this requirement will develop the autonomous/AI approaches to understanding what tasks are required to meet a Request for Information (RFI) and the means to determine if a goal has been achieved. Throughout, the wider context of the value of the information must be understood, evaluated, and accounted for. As a result, ISR collection will support much improved understanding. We seek the development of software frameworks, modules and algorithms.
The work is likely to suit a mixed team made up of academia and industry able to i) determine the state of the art ii) recommend and develop suitable algorithms and information theory iii) implement these solutions into demonstration capability. As part of this research the supplier will be required to develop an interim software framework to form part of a conceptual demonstrator of the Reactive ISR system (in September 2022).
The conceptual demonstrator will look to implement land focused ISR vignettes with the following types of assets: UXVs, manned ariel and land-based platforms, and remote sensing assets. However subsequent demonstrations will look to exercise a wider set of vignettes utilising a mix of assets across different environments.
Please see the attached Tasking Form for further information regarding this award.
The work was competed through Lot 6 of the Serapis Framework and has subsequently been awarded.
More information
Attachments
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- 20220506_U86 - Tasking Form Redacted.pdf
- Signed contract
- Redacted completed tasking form for this procurement.
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- Transparency Annex C.pdf
- Procurement plan
- Annex C, Actual Procurement Timescales.
Award information
Awarded date
21 April 2022
Contract start date
25 April 2022
Contract end date
31 March 2024
Total value of contract
£349,718.06
This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.
FRAZER-NASH CONSULTANCY LIMITED
Address
1 College Green Trinity Street
BS1 5TE
GBReference
Companies House number: 02562870
Value of contract
£349,718.06
Supplier is SME?
No
Supplier is VCSE?
No
About the buyer
Contact name
Commercial CIS Transparency
Address
Porton Down
SALISBURY
SP40JQ
England
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Closing: 22 March 2022, 5pm