AI³ Delivery Partners Project

Description

The DBT Digital, Data and Technology team leads on development of AI tools and services within the Department for Business and Trade. It does so through an 'AI³' model, which aims to identify, test, develop and evaluate use cases for applying artificial intelligence within the Department. This model consists of three parts: • Lot 1: AI Lab: Rapid, time limited exploration and assessment of AI use cases and experiments • Lot 2: AI Factory: Development and operationalisation of experiments into production ready tools and components • Lot 3: AI Operations: Maintenance, scaling, and operationalisation of AI solutions The Authority is seeking to procure specialist expertise to support delivery of this model. We require this to take the form of suitably-skilled teams and individuals provided by the Supplier joining relevant AI³ teams and project teams within the AI Lab, AI Factory or AI Operations. Supplier resources will work alongside and under the direction of Civil Servants within the DBT Digital, Data and Technology team within the Department. This may be for both short and long-term projects as agreed via statements of work, and requiring a variety of digital and data skills. Each of the three parts of the model will be awarded as a lot to a single supplier. There will be 3 stages for each lot. Suppliers may only submit a tender for one lot. A single Supplier can only win one lot. Suppliers are unable to subcontract on a second lot should they be the lead supplier or subcontractor on one lot, therefore are unable to bid for multiple lots. This first stage is a Participation stage, and is open to all. Stage 2 will be an Invitation to Tender (ITT) and Stage 3 a supplementary Invitation to Tender (sITT) issued to suppliers that successfully pass each stage in accordance with the Invitation to Participate (ITP) For a more detailed description of this requirement, please refer to Appendix B of the ITP.