Published date: 25 January 2022

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


Closing: 26 October 2021, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Transport services (excl. Waste transport) - 60000000

Location of contract

SW1P 4DR

Value of contract

£120,900

Procurement reference

tender_287247/1035951

Published date

25 January 2022

Closing date

26 October 2021

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

26 November 2021

Contract end date

31 March 2022

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

For the development of algorithms for the automated detection of security threats there is a need for data sets of both the threats to be found and of innocuous items to ensure that the algorithm performance does not impede on the operational needs of airports.

With the advent of machine and deep learning algorithms there is a requirement for large volumes of data, this, combined with the fact that some of the materials that regulators wish algorithms to identify are hard to handle in large quantities meaning that the creation of data is slow or inadequate to meet the demands of development and deployment of algorithms to meet all stakeholder needs.

The purpose of this contract is to develop a means by which synthetically created data can be created and validated as to be identical and indistinguishable from data created by scanning real objects in security systems.

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Award information

Awarded date

10 November 2021

Contract start date

26 November 2021

Contract end date

31 March 2022

Total value of contract

£120,900

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Address

Reference

No reference - other

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Sam Hatton

Address

Great Minster House
London
SW1P 4DR
England

Telephone

0

Email

Sam.Hatton@dft.gov.uk