Project CESTIUS

Tender description

CESTIUS is a concept-validation exercise within PYRAMID that is designed to provide feedback on the usability and ‘openness’ of the technical solution by assessing the PRA Exploiter’s Pack through an experiment in component development. The experiment will be conducted by a component developer and will consist of the development a PYRAMID-Compliant software component using the PRA Exploiter’s Pack, capturing lessons learned on the experience of development, and supplying the component to a system integrator for integration testing. The value of these activities is in the findings of the experience which should provide confidence that the material enables suppliers to develop PYRAMID-Compliant systems. NOTE: This contract was awarded to GDUK in Apr-21. This Notice is not a request for Expressions of Interest. This notice is to advise that the Authority has decided to negotiate a contract amendment with the named supplier on a single source basis, and is published for reasons of transparency. The VTN is attached to this Opportunity notice.