4D Animate Platform/Power Technologies (4DAPT)
Details
- Buyer
- Ministry of Defence
- Published
- 19 January 2024
- Submission
- 19 February 2024
- Source
- uk:bravosolution
Tender description
The France-UK University Research Initiative (FUURI) program, created in 2022 by the FR-UK Defence Research Group (AFDRG), supports interdisciplinary research involving French and British universities to accelerate progress in innovative new fields of potential interest to the French Ministry of Defence and the UK Ministry of Defence. Within the framework of FUURI, the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and Agence de l'innovation de défense (AID) have agreed to support innovative binational projects demonstrating strong synergy between teams in each country and a real integration of joint work. The first FUURI project will focus on accelerating the state of the art in 4D printing (4DAPT: 4D Animate Platform/Power Technologies). 4D printing involves the 3D printing of responsive or animate materials. These materials change their function or geometry and adapt in response to a stimulus such as light, heat or electricity. 4D printing has potential to disrupt the way that military platforms are manufactured providing advances in areas such as: reconfigurable structures that self-heal or change shape in response to load; Self-assembling and self-disassembling structures; Robotics; Power and Energy.
Timeline
- Completed: Tender published19 January 2024Current notice
- Completed: Submission date19 February 2024
About the buyer
The Ministry of Defence is a ministerial department that runs its acquisition and procurement activity through a dedicated commercial function, led by the Director Commercial. Defence Equipment & Support buys, supports and supplies equipment such as jets, warships and armoured vehicles for the armed forces. The Defence Infrastructure Organisation plans, builds and maintains the defence estate separately from equipment procurement. Suppliers can register on the Defence Sourcing Portal, the department's end-to-end eProcurement system for contract opportunities. Many purchasing agreements sit on the MOD Framework Library, its central list of framework routes to market.
Procurement spend from central entities makes up 66% of overall UK public spend.
Over the past 5 years, most of the Ministry of Defence's contract awards have been in IT services, architectural and engineering services and repair and maintenance.
Decision makers
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| Contact name | Job title | Phone number | Work email |
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| Head of Procurement | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@ministry-of-defence.gov | |
| Commercial Director | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@ministry-of-defence.gov | |
| Procurement Manager | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@ministry-of-defence.gov | |
| Category Lead | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@ministry-of-defence.gov | |
| Senior Buyer | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@ministry-of-defence.gov | |
| Contracts Manager | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@ministry-of-defence.gov |
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