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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Transport Systems Catapult

Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM) Framework

TransportCPV 60440000 63730000 71600000 73100000 73200000 73300000
Value£55k
Awarded14 Oct 2018
Published7 Nov 2018
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£55ktotal contract value
median £64k
this tender£0£2.2m

This sits in the lower-middle of the Transport Services band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 20,160 valued Transport Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

PROVIDE CONSULTANCY AND KNOW HOW TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF A UTM ARCHITECTURE AND THE CORRESPONDING MESSAGING AND DATA-EXCHANGE MECHANISMS, AND WORK TOWARDS DELIVERING A SIMULATION OF A MULTI-UTMSP OPERATING ENVIRONMENT.

THE APPOINTED PARTY WILL WORK: - ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A UTM CORE MODULE, - ON THE UAS/OPERATOR REGISTRY MODELS, AND GEO-FENCE REGISTRY MODEL. - ON DEVELOPMENT, DELIVERY & PRESENTATION OF PERFORMANCE METRICS FOR BENCHMARKING SIMULATIONS. - WITH PROJECT STAKEHOLDERS TO PERFORM SYSTEM INTEGRATION, TEST AND COMMISSIONING ACTIVITIES. - WITH STAKEHOLDERS TO PRODUCE TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION, PRESENTATIONS & REPORTS.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

PROVIDE CONSULTANCY AND KNOW HOW TO SUPPORT

PROVIDE CONSULTANCY AND KNOW HOW TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF A UTM ARCHITECTURE AND THE CORRESPONDING MESSAGING AND DATA-EXCHANGE MECHANISMS, AND WORK TOWARDS DELIVERING A SIMULATION OF A MULTI-UTMSP OPERATING ENVIRONMENT.

02

WITH PROJECT STAKEHOLDERS TO PERFORM SYSTEM INTEGRATION

WITH PROJECT STAKEHOLDERS TO PERFORM SYSTEM INTEGRATION, TEST AND COMMISSIONING ACTIVITIES.

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Source & provenance
OCID
15446fc8-c5e0-4961-acdc-d2334301e6a2
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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