Published date: 30 August 2022
Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.
Contract summary
Industry
IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support - 72000000
Location of contract
BS1 6PN
Value of contract
£144,000
Procurement reference
17/02/1086
Published date
30 August 2022
Closing date
6 June 2022
Closing time
4pm
Contract start date
12 September 2022
Contract end date
11 March 2023
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system
A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established dynamic purchasing system.
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
No
Description
For this Alpha phase the Planning Inspectorate requires an agile, flexible partner to deliver a project, to take forward learning from our recent AI innovation discovery, to further explore the opportunities / assumptions from discovery, explore standardisation, maximise reuse, minimise integration risks, and make clear recommendations on future phases.
This will enable us to deepen learning, increase engagement and prove whether there is value in future investment to help make Local Plans examinations quicker, more efficient, and more accurate.
Deepen learning
Validate riskier assumptions (e.g. exclusion of image files does not expose us to risk that key information will be lost).
Explore using the text inside the Local Plan as training data and effects of standardisation to enable training from other Local Plans.
Explore standardisation
Explore Local Plan and representation data structures across a wider sample of representative LPAs to:
inform recommendations around standardisation,
increase confidence in understanding of the data, and
mitigate the risks of extending prototypes to other LPA datasets.
Explore thorough a mini pilot the effects of standardisation across Local Plans, and opportunities to ensure consistent taxonomies and standards across Planning Inspectorate services (see Discovery Report page 38).
Maximise reuse
Further explore prototypes from discovery to increase robustness, accuracy, and extension to other LPA datasets.
Explore how features can be extended to the entire examination library.
Explore future hosting and integration considerations and prerequisites.
Identify potential for consistent topic modelling, text segmentation and labelling across Planning Inspectorate services (e.g. planning appeals, national infrastructure planning applications).
Optional requirement for Beta
We also include an option for the successful supplier to undertake the Beta phase of this project assuming a successful Alpha and a continuing business need for the requirement. This option will be confirmed towards the end of the Alpha Phase with timescales to be agreed with the supplier.
Award information
Awarded date
25 August 2022
Contract start date
12 September 2022
Contract end date
11 March 2023
Total value of contract
£144,450
This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.
Oxford Global Projects UK Ltd
Address
John Eccles House
Robert Robinson Avenue
Oxford Science Park
Oxford
United Kingdom
OX4 4GPReference
Companies House number: 14149409
Value of contract
£144,450
Supplier is SME?
Yes
Supplier is VCSE?
No
About the buyer
Contact name
Linda Paul
Address
Temple Quay House,2 the Square Temple Quay
BRISTOL
BS16PN
England
Linda.Paul@planninginspectorate.gov.uk
Website
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/planning-inspectorate/about
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Closing: 6 June 2022, 4pm