PS22481 - Evaluation of options to expand AI & ML capability at DC

The final date and time for the submission of bids is Monday 13th February 2023 at 11:00.

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Brief Description of Requirement UK government's National AI Strategy set out a 10-year plan to make Britain a global superpower.

The output from the work we are looking to tender with this document aligns with the priorities set out under Pillar 1 and 2 of the National AI strategy and more specifically with the need for applied AI technologies to new use cases and ensuring AI benefits all sectors of the UK economy.

A previous report has suggested that AI could benefit the UK economy by an uplift of 22% GDP.

With this tender, we are looking to identify a short list of options and associated economic benefits for investing in the expansion of capabilities by Digital Catapult to develop a national resource for the acceleration of testing and development of new AI & ML solutions.

The Digital Catapult already has capability in this technology and delivers a number of different business support functions including the Machine Intelligence Garage and INJECT.

We seek to identify and prioritise a list of additional investment options that have the capacity to accelerate the adoption of AI technologies in the UK economy.

The services tendered in this document seek to identify and quantify ROI from a short list of possible investment options to expand Digital Catapults' capabilities in Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning and associated enabling technologies/infrastructure to support the acceleration of adoption of AI & ML in the industry.

The work will be delivered in two phases.

The information gathering phase 1, that will lead to an interim report to outline the key findings gathered and phase 2 that will engage in evaluating and analysing information gathered and lead to writing of the final documents.

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This contract will be awarded based on the evaluation criteria as set out in the ITQ document.

How to Apply UK Shared Business Services Ltd (UK SBS) will be using the Jaggaer eSourcing Portal for this procurement.

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