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MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

SPOTTER ML OPS (Data Scientist Team)

IT ServicesCPV 72590000
Value£1.8m
Awarded27 Mar 2026
Published26 Jun 2026
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

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Contract value in context
£1.8mtotal contract value
median £120k
this tender£0£3.5m

This is a large award for IT Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 36,449 valued IT Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Project SPOTTER is a high priority Defence requirement that uses computer vision techniques to detect and classify objects of Defence interest within satellite imagery.

This will provide crucial information that will allow Ministry Of Defence (MOD) Imagery Analysts to prioritise imagery for further analysis, and to focus attention on the most important intelligence first.

It therefore offers improved efficiency and timeliness of intelligence reporting by enabling analysts to deliver actionable insights faster.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

This will provide crucial information that

This will provide crucial information that will allow Ministry Of Defence (MOD) Imagery Analysts to prioritise imagery for further analysis, and to focus attention on the most important intelligence first.

02

It therefore offers improved efficiency and timeliness

It therefore offers improved efficiency and timeliness of intelligence reporting by enabling analysts to deliver actionable insights faster.

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