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title: "Artificial Intelligence - Alpha"
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# Artificial Intelligence - Alpha

Buyer: THE PLANNING INSPECTORATE  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-b5fd17-53d3c7a5-6ef1-4472-8703-96ae0118b569

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## Summary

The Planning Inspectorate has awarded a contract for the project titled "Artificial Intelligence - Alpha" to Oxford Global Projects UK Ltd. The contract is valued at £144,450 and involves IT services for consulting, software development, and Internet support. The tender was classified under the CPV code 72000000, with a selective procurement method involving a call-off from a dynamic purchasing system. The contract period starts on September 12, 2022, and ends on March 11, 2023, with a tender period ending on June 6, 2022, and a contract award date of August 25, 2022. The project is located in Bristol, England (postal code: BS1 6PN), creating opportunities for SMEs in the IT services industry.

This opportunity offers SMEs in the IT services industry a chance to work with The Planning Inspectorate on an innovative project focusing on artificial intelligence. Businesses with expertise in consulting, software development, and Internet support are well-suited to compete for this contract. The project aims to explore AI applications in local planning examinations to make the process quicker, more efficient, and more accurate. With a clear focus on maximising reuse, standardisation, and mitigation of integration risks, this tender provides a platform for companies to demonstrate their capabilities and contribute to enhancing planning processes for local authorities.

## Notice

For this Alpha phase the Planning Inspectorate requires an agile, flexible partner to deliver a project, to take forward learning from our recent AI innovation discovery, to further explore the opportunities / assumptions from discovery, explore standardisation, maximise reuse, minimise integration risks, and make clear recommendations on future phases. This will enable us to deepen learning, increase engagement and prove whether there is value in future investment to help make Local Plans examinations quicker, more efficient, and more accurate. Deepen learning Validate riskier assumptions (e.g. exclusion of image files does not expose us to risk that key information will be lost). Explore using the text inside the Local Plan as training data and effects of standardisation to enable training from other Local Plans. Explore standardisation Explore Local Plan and representation data structures across a wider sample of representative LPAs to: inform recommendations around standardisation, increase confidence in understanding of the data, and mitigate the risks of extending prototypes to other LPA datasets. Explore thorough a mini pilot the effects of standardisation across Local Plans, and opportunities to ensure consistent taxonomies and standards across Planning Inspectorate services (see Discovery Report page 38). Maximise reuse Further explore prototypes from discovery to increase robustness, accuracy, and extension to other LPA datasets. Explore how features can be extended to the entire examination library. Explore future hosting and integration considerations and prerequisites. Identify potential for consistent topic modelling, text segmentation and labelling across Planning Inspectorate services (e.g. planning appeals, national infrastructure planning applications). Optional requirement for Beta We also include an option for the successful supplier to undertake the Beta phase of this project assuming a successful Alpha and a continuing business need for the requirement. This option will be confirmed towards the end of the Alpha Phase with timescales to be agreed with the supplier.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Contracts Finder |
| Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/9f1be104-5df6-426b-a521-fe33cf511a04 |
| Notice type | Award Notice |
| Procurement type | Dynamic |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Selective |
| Procurement method details | Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system |
| Tender suitability | SME |
| Awardee scale | SME |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 30 Aug 2022 |
| Submission deadline | 6 Jun 2022 |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 24 Aug 2022 |
| Contract period | 11 Sep 2022 - 11 Mar 2023 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £144,000 |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | £144,450 |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Not specified |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | THE PLANNING INSPECTORATE |
| Locality | BRISTOL |
| Post town | Bristol |
| Postcode | BS1 6PN |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLK South West (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLK5 West of England |
| ITL 3 | TLK51 Bristol, City of |
| Local authority | Bristol, City of |
| Electoral ward | Lawrence Hill |
| Westminster constituency | Bristol East |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | OXFORD GLOBAL PROJECTS |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

### Codes

- 72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

## Release History

- 30 Aug 2022 at 09:37 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/9f1be104-5df6-426b-a521-fe33cf511a04

## Documents

- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/9f1be104-5df6-426b-a521-fe33cf511a04
  30th August 2022 - Awarded contract notice on Contracts Finder

## Notice URLs

- https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/planning-inspectorate/about

## Provenance

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