Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
entity
I.1) Name and addresses
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
100 Parliament Street
London
SW1A 2BQ
UK
Contact person: DCMS Commercial
Telephone: +44 2072116000
E-mail: commercial@culture.gov.uk
NUTS: UKI
Internet address(es)
Main address: www.gov.uk/dcms
Address of the buyer profile: www.gov.uk/dcms
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
I.5) Main activity
Recreation, culture and religion
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
Technical Analysis and Comparison of Approaches to Bias Identification and Mitigation in Decision Making Algorithms
Reference number: 101579
II.1.2) Main CPV code
73210000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
With particular reference to approaches within financial services and recruitment, The Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI) is commissioning a piece of research analysing, assessing and comparing the various approaches to bias mitigation as well as providing detailed technical standards which could be used to identify bias and means for mitigating bias. We will use the outputs produced through this work to develop our recommendations for Government themed around the areas of tools, data and governance which will be published in March 2020. We will provide an initial list of tools and approaches to guide the assessment and standards development, however further work will be needed to ensure this has sufficient coverage to capture all the key approaches available. The focus of our work in this space is financial services and recruitment. Therefore, we would expect this work to provide good coverage and analysis of tools that are explicitly aimed at these two sectors.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
125 000.00
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
73110000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKI
Main site or place of performance:
LONDON.
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
With particular reference to approaches within financial services and recruitment, The Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI) is commissioning a piece of research analysing, assessing and comparing the various approaches to bias mitigation as well as providing detailed technical standards which could be used to identify bias and means for mitigating bias. We will use the outputs produced through this work to develop our recommendations for Government themed around the areas of tools, data and governance which will be published in March 2020.
We will provide an initial list of tools and approaches to guide the assessment and standards development, however further work will be needed to ensure this has sufficient coverage to capture all the key approaches available.
The focus of our work in this space is financial services and recruitment. Therefore, we would expect this work to provide good coverage and analysis of tools that are explicitly aimed at these two sectors. However, we would also want tools included which had a more general applicability. Throughout the analysis, we would expect commentary on how these approaches may differ depending on the sector in which they are applied.
Drawing on the comparison and overall assessment of tools, the supplier should then provide separate detailed technical standards for analytical products or services, which are used to identify bias and means for mitigating bias. We would expect these standards to take into account the different decision-making contexts that bias may occur in, specifically in relation to financial services and recruitment.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion: Skills, expertise and capacity
/ Weighting: 20
Quality criterion: Methodology
/ Weighting: 30
Quality criterion: Data protection
/ Weighting: 5
Quality criterion: Understanding of the sector
/ Weighting: 15
Cost criterion: Pricing
/ Weighting: 30
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
No
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Open procedure
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
Yes
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure
Notice number in the OJ S:
2019/S 188-457444
Section V: Award of contract
Contract No: 101579
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
19/03/2020
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 4
Number of tenders received from tenderers from EU Member States: 0
Number of tenders received from tenderers from non-EU Member States: 0
Number of tenders received by electronic means: 4
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Faculty Science Ltd
08873131
54 Welbeck Street
London
W1G 9XS
UK
NUTS: UKI
Internet address(es)
URL: https://faculty.ai/
The contractor is an SME:
Yes
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Initial estimated total value of the contract/lot:
Total value of the contract/lot:
: 125 000.00
GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.3) Additional information
The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement.
Tenders must be submitted via the Delta e-sourcing portal to be received no later than 12.00 (BST), 25 October 2019 (the deadline for receipt of tender responses). Please ensure that you allow yourself plenty of time when responding to this invite prior to the closing date and time, especially if you have been asked to upload documents.
To view this notice, please click here:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=483737790
Go reference: GO-2020323-PRO-16225884
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
100 Parliament Street
London
SW1A 2BQ
UK
Telephone: +44 2072116000
E-mail: commercial@culture.gov.uk
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
23/03/2020