Reality Emulator Sub Systems x 5 Tenders

Tender description

This notice covers the following 5 tenders which were open to Suppliers: Estimated Values are as follows: Immersive Sub System - £1.5m Data Sub System - £337,500 Network System - £ 1.2m Compute Sub System - £860,000 Management, Monitoring, and Integration Sub System - £800,000 Due to internal and unforeseen changes, these tenders were not awarded. The Contract Notice was published prior to the 1st of January 2021 therefore there is no corresponding Find a Tender Notice Lot 1: The Reality Emulator is a unique combined physical and virtual environment providing the capability to study complex sociotechnical systems at different scales, in different contexts, and at different stages. A key requirement of the RE is the use of diverse real-world data sets generated in real-time, over time and at scale, that can be emulated, integrated and synthetically scaled to provide conditions for prospective research on digital innovation and intervention. The Reality Emulator is composed of four equipment sub systems, integrated through an integration, management and monitoring layer: • Immersive Sub System: provides interactive multi-user virtual and augmented reality experiences. • Data Sub System: ingests and outputs media and data feeds, performs batch and real-time data processing, supplies, and stores archived data. • Compute Sub System: executes models of real-world phenomena on a mixture of CPU, GPU and programmable hardware. • Network Sub System: a programmable substrate for communications within the RE on the University of Bristol sites and to and from remote hubs and mobile devices. There will also be a Management and Monitoring and Integration Sub System & integration partner: the unified integration of all Sub Systems that constitute the Reality Emulator enabling a single ‘pane of glass’ for monitoring and managing the RE as a whole Service. This advert covers all 5 tender opportunities which are running simultaneously (same details apply) THESE TENDERS WERE NOT AWARDED. This is due to internal changes and events which were unforeseen. The University has subsequently re evaluated it's requirements and will be shortly re-tendering this opportunity via a different procurement. This notice serves only to notify the outcome of these first tender exercises. Please see Prior Information Notice 2021-041723 or contact the Procurement Manager via the email provided for further information on the new opportunity.