OpenAI Sector AI Evaluation Pilot
Details
- Buyer
- Jisc
- Supplier(s)
- OpenAI Opco, LLC
- Value
- $7,560,000
- Duration
- 3 years
- Topic
- Software package and information systems
- Published
- 26 August 2026
- Source
- uk:find_a_tender
Tender description
JSL has concluded negotiations with the supplier and now intends to sign a contract, pending the observation of the required 8 working day standstill period. The provision of a time-limited evaluation service comprising access to OpenAI's proprietary enterprise AI environment, including ChatGPT Edu, OpenAI models, APIs, GPTs and associated enterprise platform capabilities. The evaluation includes ChatGPT Edu, Codex, OpenAI proprietary models, APIs, GPTs, agentic and research capabilities, enterprise administration and governance functionality, security controls, data residency options, support arrangements and associated services made available within the contracted OpenAI environment during the evaluation period. This evaluation will be made available to multiple UK further and higher education institutions with Jisc facilitating a coordinated, sector-wide approach that enables participation on consistent terms. The objective of this evaluation is to generate evidence on the onboarding, engagement needs, adoption, governance, security, technical integration, institutional value, commercial models and consumption of OpenAI's first-party AI environment across institutions with different underlying cloud, productivity, identity, data and application estates. ## Contract award
Timeline
- Completed: Award published26 August 2026Current notice
- Completed: Award date26 August 2026
- Next: Contract expiry date30 March 2029in 2 years
About the buyer
Jisc provides digital, data and network services to UK higher and further education, and buys as a central body with its own commercial team. Frameworks and dynamic purchasing systems cover network equipment, cloud services and research systems. Member universities and colleges call off these agreements directly, without running their own tender. Regional partners including SUPC, APUC and HEPCW extend this buying power across the sector.
A procurement pipeline lists larger contracts expected over the next five years.
Over the past 5 years, most of Jisc's contract awards have been in education and training, IT services and software and information systems.
Decision makers
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