College of Bristol goes to tender for £1.6M ‘Actuality Emulator’
March 10, 2023 – The University of Bristol (UoB) has gone to tender for the procurement of an immersive platform for the creation of its new ‘Actuality Emulator’ – a “technologically superior sector-agnostic digital twin facility for the co-creation of future digital options by means of novel experience-based, iterative and immersive approaches.”
In accordance with UoB, the Actuality Emulator will encompass a novel coordinated bodily and digital atmosphere that may present the aptitude to review complicated technical and sociotechnical techniques at completely different scales, in several contexts, and at completely different levels.
The ability will present entry to a wealthy atmosphere of real-world analysis and experimentation platforms, superior and rising telecommunications applied sciences, and open knowledge platforms from a robust datacentre infrastructure linked to the College’s immersive expertise environments.
As well as, the College expects that when accomplished, the power can even enable for real-time knowledge monitoring and evaluation, in addition to the creation of 3D visualization fashions. This in flip will enable for collaborative experimentation, iterative design and improvement of latest digital applied sciences and the emulation of future eventualities on a scale and in a manner not beforehand attainable, based on UoB.
The College of Bristol’s Digital Futures Institute (BDFI) is creating the Actuality Emulator, of which a key requirement shall be the usage of numerous datasets generated in real-time, over time, traditionally and at scale, that may be emulated, built-in and synthetically scaled to offer circumstances for potential analysis on digital innovation and intervention.
UoB is aiming to construct and pilot the Actuality Emulator all through 2023-2024. The College is subsequently in search of a provider for its procurement of an ‘Immersive Platform,’ on which the Actuality Emulator shall be based mostly. In accordance with UoB, the immersive provider shall be accountable and chargeable for the provision, design, construct, unit take a look at and operational acceptance testing of the Immersive Platform.
The period of the contract is listed as 17 months, nevertheless, there are additionally two x 12 month extensions out there to facilitate extension to upkeep and assist and a few restricted consultancy if wanted. UoB is envisaging that three (however as much as a most of 4) candidates shall be invited to submit detailed tenders for the contract.
The procurement contract is valued at GBP £1.6 million. The cut-off date for tender submissions is March 22, 2023 at 2:00pm GMT. For corporations eager about making use of, please reach out to Auganix for extra data on the way to submit a young. To search out out extra basic details about the College of Bristol’s Actuality Emulator undertaking, click on here.
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