Published date: 7 December 2018

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: 10 January 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

  • Administration services - 75100000

  • Administrative services for business operations - 75112000

    • Project-management services other than for construction work - 79421000

    • Project-design services other than for construction work - 79421200

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£50,000 to £100,000

Procurement reference

BIP361947924

Published date

7 December 2018

Closing date

10 January 2019

Contract start date

21 January 2019

Contract end date

31 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

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is exploring the opportunity to work with South Korea on a collaborative 5G testbed and trials project, as part of the wider UK Government's 5G Testbed and Trials Programme.

Through discussions with the Korean Government and Korean's Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute (ETRI) we are proposing a joint UK-Korea 5G collaboration with a focus on "Infotainment mobile services in rapid transport environments". By this, we mean information and entertainment services (e.g. web browsing, social media, video streaming) provided to passengers in rapidly moving vehicles such as high speed trains or cars on high-speed roads.

The objective of the collaboration is to offer the ability for UK industry, including SMEs, or other organisations to test infotainment services, including possible AR/VR, content or broadcasting solutions, in a rapid transport environments in Korea. DCMS will be offering UK organisations £1.2 million capital grant funding to enable this.

The scope of this Procurement is to secure a UK organisation (the Supplier) who will, through their detailed technical knowledge and their knowledge of and engagement with the wider 5G ecosystem:

1. Facilitate the agreement of a more detailed project scope with counterpart organisations in Korea (The Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute, (ETRI))

2. Design and run an open, fair and transparent grant competition on behalf of DCMS to award UK organisation/s a grant to deliver high quality benefits to the UK through this collaboration.

More information

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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.

About the buyer

Contact name

Margaret Christensen

Address

Floor 4
100 Parliament Street
LONDON
SW1A 2BQ
UK

Telephone

02072112388

Email

commercial@culture.gov.uk