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MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

Defence AI Centre Tech Enablers Accelerator

IT ServicesCPV 72000000 72200000 79000000 79400000
Value£729k
Deadline29 Sept 2023
Published28 Nov 2023
RegionLondon
Timeline
Published 28 Nov 2023ClosedCloses 29 Sept 2023
Contract value in context
£729ktotal contract value
median £120k
this tender£0£3.5m

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The brief

The DAIC is seeking a provider (or group of providers) to provide a suitably experienced technical team to accelerate our Technical Enablers for AI line of effort.

This "Accelerator" package of work will support the DAIC in delivering our immediate technical objectives at pace.

In essence this work will provide an initial "Technology Office" for the DAIC, working to the DAIC Technical Head.

The supplier should provide technical expertise so that the DAIC is able to deliver enabling capability for AI.

This expertise will support four goals: a) Identifying the required technical enabling capability, options, and approaches/designs, leading to the development of a Technical Enablers strategy and roadmap. b) Developing and managing requirements we will need to be prioritised and delivered by the wider Defence Digital and Digital Foundry technology programmes. c) Iterative design, development and testing of initial enabling capabilities and processes, through prototyping to MVP/Alpha-level maturity.

The key priorities within this work will include: a.

Facilitating AI project deployment to different platform environments; b.

Supporting the availability of, and accessibility to, AI Ready data; and; c.

De-risking of AI model management and integration. d.

Definition of, and knowledge transfer to, an enduring technical enablers team

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The DAIC is seeking a provider (or

The DAIC is seeking a provider (or group of providers) to provide a suitably experienced technical team to accelerate our Technical Enablers for AI line of effort.

02

This "Accelerator" package of work will support

This "Accelerator" package of work will support the DAIC in delivering our immediate technical objectives at pace.

03

In essence this work will provide

In essence this work will provide an initial "Technology Office" for the DAIC, working to the DAIC Technical Head.

04

The supplier should provide technical expertise so

The supplier should provide technical expertise so that the DAIC is able to deliver enabling capability for AI.

05

This expertise will support four goals

This expertise will support four goals:.

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