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Published 30 Aug 2022

Artificial Intelligence - Alpha

The Planning Inspectorate · South West

Key facts

Contract value
£144,450
Awarded
24 Aug 2022
Contract starts
11 Sep 2022
Contract ends
11 Mar 2023
Procedure
Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system
Buyer type
Central government

Awarded to

SupplierValue
OXFORD GLOBAL PROJECTS LIMITED£144,450

Description

For this Alpha phase the Planning Inspectorate requires an agile, flexible partner to deliver a project, to take forward learning from our recent AI innovation discovery, to further explore the opportunities / assumptions from discovery, explore standardisation, maximise reuse, minimise integration risks, and make clear recommendations on future phases. 

This will enable us to deepen learning, increase engagement and prove whether there is value in future investment to help make Local Plans examinations quicker, more efficient, and more accurate. 

Deepen learning 

Validate riskier assumptions (e.g. exclusion of image files does not expose us to risk that key information will be lost).

Explore using the text inside the Local Plan as training data and effects of standardisation to enable training from other Local Plans.

Explore standardisation

Explore Local Plan and representation data structures across a wider sample of representative LPAs to: 

inform recommendations around standardisation,  

increase confidence in understanding of the data, and  

mitigate the risks of extending prototypes to other LPA datasets.

Explore thorough a mini pilot the effects of standardisation across Local Plans, and opportunities to ensure consistent taxonomies and standards across Planning Inspectorate services (see Discovery Report page 38). 

Maximise reuse

Further explore prototypes from discovery to increase robustness, accuracy, and extension to other LPA datasets.  

Explore how features can be extended to the entire examination library. 

Explore future hosting and integration considerations and prerequisites.

Identify potential for consistent topic modelling, text segmentation and labelling across Planning Inspectorate services (e.g. planning appeals, national infrastructure planning applications).   

Optional requirement for Beta

We also include an option for the successful supplier to undertake the Beta phase of this project assuming a successful Alpha and a continuing business need for the requirement. This option will be confirmed towards the end of the Alpha Phase with timescales to be agreed with the supplier.

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