Awarded contract

QUB/2637/24 Contract for the Supply and Delivery of an Experimental Self-Driving (Autonomous Vehicle) Research Platform

Details

Value
£1,000,000
Topic
Specialist vehicles
Published
17 December 2024

Tender description

Queen’s University Belfast aims to purchase an autonomous vehicle platform to support research, development, and testing of connected autonomous vehicle (CAV) technologies and services. This platform is required to allow flexibility and interchangeability of its sensing and computing units to enable Queen’s researchers to test those manufactured by various vendors. Lot 1: Queen’s University Belfast aims to purchase an autonomous vehicle platform to support research, development, and testing of connected autonomous vehicle (CAV) technologies and services. This platform is required to allow flexibility and interchangeability of its sensing and computing units to enable Queen’s researchers to test those manufactured by various vendors.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date16 December 2024
  2. Completed: Award published17 December 2024
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About the buyer

Queen's University Belfast is a higher education institution that runs its procurement through the Finance Directorate's procurement team. Suppliers register on the university's own e-tendering site to view and respond to current tenders. An accepted expression of interest opens the "my tenders" area, where full tender documents sit for registered suppliers. A Supply Chain Code of Conduct, tied to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, applies to every supplier. Contracts above the advertising threshold follow the Procurement Act 2023 and its regulations, in force since February 2025. The procurement team takes supplier and contract queries directly by email.

Education procurement reached £47.4bn in 2024/25, the fourth-largest public sector budget.

Over the past 5 years, most of Queen's University Belfast's contract awards have been in laboratory and precision equipment, industrial machinery and business services.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 34114000 · Specialist vehicles
  • 34144000 · Special-purpose motor vehicles
  • 34144900 · Electric vehicles
  • 34328200 · Vehicle conversion kits

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