Pura Commercial & Contract Radar

GB-Sheffield: AI Pilot

UNKNOWN

What happened?

Award notice from BIP SOLUTIONS LIMITED. Relevance is supported by notice evidence.

Facts

{
  "award_values": [
    {
      "amount": 170000,
      "currency": "GBP"
    }
  ],
  "buyer": "BIP SOLUTIONS LIMITED",
  "buyer_reference": "BIP1078489624",
  "contact_email": "Procurement@british-business-bank.co.uk",
  "contact_name": "Procurement",
  "contact_restrictions": [],
  "contacts": [
    {
      "email": "Procurement@british-business-bank.co.uk",
      "name": "Procurement",
      "organisation": "BIP SOLUTIONS LIMITED",
      "telephone": "01142127862"
    }
  ],
  "contract_terms": [
    {
      "endDate": "2026-11-02T23:59:59Z",
      "startDate": "2025-11-03T00:00:00Z"
    }
  ],
  "cpv": [
    {
      "description": "Investment management software development services",
      "id": "72212411",
      "scheme": "CPV"
    }
  ],
  "currency": "GBP",
  "days_to_deadline": -367,
  "deadline": "2025-11-02T00:00:00Z",
  "deadline_conflict": false,
  "deadline_kind": "TENDER",
  "deadline_narrative": "",
  "deadline_structured": "2025-11-02T00:00:00Z",
  "deadline_time_unpublished": false,
  "demo_evidence": [],
  "direct_contact_evidence": [],
  "engagement_route": "",
  "estimated_value": 170000,
  "expansion_scope": "Complete official OCDS release; linked restricted documents require separate verification.",
  "extensions": [],
  "fully_expanded": true,
  "geographic_scope": [
    [
      {
        "countryName": "United Kingdom",
        "region": "Yorkshire and the Humber"
      }
    ]
  ],
  "hidden_opportunity": true,
  "historical_engagement_evidence": "",
  "incumbent_evidence": [],
  "linked_documents": [],
  "lot_count": 0,
  "lot_scope": [],
  "meeting_evidence": [],
  "notice_type": "AWARD",
  "procurement_method": "Other - Not Disclosed",
  "procurement_status": "complete",
  "publication_date": "2026-10-26T11:14:20Z",
  "published_corrections": [],
  "published_notice_types": [],
  "published_requirement": "Investment-led initiative to develop AI agents and tools to determine whether processes may be streamlined and efficiencies realised. This is a proof of concept project.\r\n\r\nAdditional information: British Business Bank Plc, registered in England and Wales, registration number 08616013, registered office Steel City House, West Street, Sheffield, S1 2GQ, a development bank wholly owned by the HM Government. It and its subsidiaries are not banking institutions and do not operate as such. With the exception of BBB Investment Services Limited they are not authorised or regulated by the Prudential Regulation Authority or the Financial Conduct Authority. BBB Investment Services Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. A complete legal structure chart for the group can be found at www.british-business-bank.co.uk.",
  "questionnaire_evidence": [],
  "reference": "6c040de1-6c9e-4bbe-a31b-f4103e44efaa-919126",
  "registration_evidence": [
    "Additional information: British Business Bank Plc, registered in England and Wales, registration number 08616013, registered office Steel City House, West Street, Sheffield, S1 2GQ, a development bank wholly owned by the HM Government."
  ],
  "relevance_evidence": {
    "SOFTWARE_DELIVERY": [
      "software development"
    ]
  },
  "requirement_items": "",
  "selection_requirements": [],
  "sme_suitability": [
    {
      "sme": false,
      "vcse": false
    }
  ],
  "submission_method": "UNKNOWN",
  "value_excluding_vat": null,
  "value_including_vat": null,
  "value_minimum": null,
  "value_scope": "TOTAL_NOTICE_NOT_PURA_ADDRESSABLE",
  "vat_basis": "VAT basis not explicit in release"
}

Commercial inferences

[
  {
    "basis": {
      "SOFTWARE_DELIVERY": [
        "software development"
      ]
    },
    "type": "HIDDEN_ADDRESSABLE_ELEMENT"
  }
]

Unknowns

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Possible services

[
  {
    "confidence": "MEDIUM",
    "rationale": "software development",
    "service": "SOFTWARE_DELIVERY"
  }
]

Provenance

{
  "licence": "http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "ocid": "ocds-b5fd17-d0c779db-d9a1-4864-b797-685a64186576",
  "release_id": "6c040de1-6c9e-4bbe-a31b-f4103e44efaa-919126"
}

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