CONTRACT NOTICE – NATIONAL

1 Authority Details

1.1

Authority Name and Address

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Address from which documentation may be obtained

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Completed documents must be returned to:

2 Contract Details

2.1

Title

AI Chatbot Teaching Assistant

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Description of the goods or services required

The University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTD) wishes to Tender for an Artificially Intelligent (AIS) chatbot solution to support a higher education funding council for Wales (HEFCW) project starting in March 2023.

The UWTSD project has short timescales and as such we are looking to acquire an existing product that requires little to no re-development to deploy.

The money is awarded on the understanding that the AIS can be used by students and staff who are bilingual. This means that the AIS must be able to communicate in both English and Welsh.

The key objective of the project will be to test a new pedagogical approach where students will learn material by teaching the AIS with a refined corpus of knowledge that it will use in preference to what it already knows to converse with students about the subject of Enterprise.

The AIS must be able to integrate into the UWTSD Learning Management System (LMS) as well as those of its partner organisations.

The project involves teaching a cohort of non-technical people to program a list of answers to frequently asked questions on aspects of enterprise knowledge. The Enterprise course includes 15-units and it is anticipated that the bot(s) will be “programmed” to answer intelligently about 100 frequently asked questions on each subject.

UWTSD is working with 4 FE (Further Education) Partners

Coleg Sir Gar

Pembrokeshire College

Cardiff & Vale College

Neath & Port Talbot College

it is expected the system would integrate with the FE systems within 6 months.

UWTSD will contract for a minimum of 1 year initially from March 2023, with an option to extend for a further 2 x 12 months

NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Sell2Wales Web Site at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=128516.

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Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems.

2.3

Notice Coding and Classification

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Total quantity or scope of tender

3 Conditions for Participation

3.1

Minimum standards and qualification required

4 Administrative Information

4.1

Type of Procedure

Single stage

4.2

Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

UWTSD2223/192

4.3

Time Limits

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Language or languages in which tenders or requests to participate can be drawn up

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Tender Submission Postbox

5 Other Information

5.1

Additional Information

(WA Ref:128516)

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Additional Documentation

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Publication date of this notice