Published date: 22 May 2017

Last edited date: 22 May 2017

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: 30 May 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£50,000 to £125,000

Procurement reference

CAPLTFC001-DN264743-31969385

Published date

22 May 2017

Closing date

30 May 2017

Contract start date

5 June 2017

Contract end date

30 March 2018

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Other:

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes


Description

An integral part of the Industrial Strategy, Construction 2016 - 2020 is the HM Government's Digital Built Britain (DBB)
Strategy published in February 2015. The strategy brings together the Business and Professional Services Strategy,
the Smart Cities Strategy and the Information Economy Strategy to provide a consistent vision regarding the
creation of a high performing and transparent economy that efficiently delivers services to all of its citizens.
The vision for Digital Built Britain is to provide a seamless transition from the achievements of Level 2 Building
Information Modelling (BIM) and the Construction Strategy into an environment where technology as a system is
second nature. This will enable a thriving UK Digital Economy for the Built Urban Environment to encourage
growth and competitiveness and facilitate dramatically better use of current and future infrastructure assets.
BIM and Smart Cities were developed under two separate remits that approached the same target of citizen centric
design. BIM was developed with treasury capital spending on Infrastructure in mind. Smart Cities Standards were
developed from citizen needs reflecting inward to the design of the city. Clearly the convergence point of these
standards leads to cost-optimised and society-optimised urban infrastructure. That is the vision of Digital Built
Britain.
At the HM Government's Budget of 2016, £15m was made available to fund the DBB Programme which is run by
Innovate UK on behalf of BEIS to deliver the following:
• Providing departmental support and British Standards
for Level 2 BIM and Smart Cities.
• Increased international trade and opportunities for
growth for UK SME's.
• Development of a Level 3 BIM programme as
announced in February 2015.
• Cyber security of Infrastructure and Data.
• Large-scale operational data gathering through Internet
of Things (IOT).
• Private sector investment and engagement.
• A series of early adopter projects focusing on Level 2A and manufacturing technologies.This opportunity relates to the Level 2 BIM workstream whose primary purpose is to provide strategic leadership to help define the framework/process to implement BIM Level 2 BIM and to support Department's continued adoption and development of common practices with regards to
implementing BIM Level 2, cognisant of each Department's operating model.


More information

Additional text

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About the buyer

Contact name

Davinder Sarai

Address

1 Sekforde Street
London
EC1R 0BE
United Kingdom

Email

davinder.sarai@westhillcommercial.co.uk

Website

https://futurecities.catapult.org.uk