Notice for the supply, installation, maintenance and support of an Augmented Virtuality Platform to facilitate the research in developing “Collaborative Training Environment for Surgical Teams”

Tender reference 430

De Montfort University’s Mechatronics Research Group is engaged in leading edge research in the field of virtual engineering. One of the key strands of research is in the area of Collaborative Training Environment for Surgical Teams. To support our research in this field we are planning to procure an Augmented Virtuality Platform to facilitate development of such collaborative training environment for surgical teams; and development of other applications related to the Mechatronics research. The required platform should consist of software, a virtual reality-authoring platform and hardware, an augmented–reality platform.

The Augmented Virtuality Platform is to be installed and commissioned on the University's city campus in Leicester on or before 31 March 2008.

The award criteria for this procurement will be: conformance to specification, capability and capacity to supply and maintain and the estimated whole-life cost of the platform consisting of hardware and software.

For all enquiries regarding this procurement please contact Mrs Roshani McLaughlin, Procurement Assistant, Finance Department, De Montfort University on telephone: +44 (0) 116 207 8016 or email purchasing@dmu.ac.uk

You may request tender documents by emailing purchasing@dmu.ac.uk  and quoting reference 430.

Closing date for the return of tenders is noon, Friday 5 October 2007.

De Montfort University has a legal duty to comply with the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, 2000 and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004. Accordingly, information in relation to this contract and any prior related tender may be made available on demand in accordance with the legislation. You should state if any of the information supplied by you as part of the contract is either confidential or commercially sensitive, or should not be disclosed to a third party in response to a request for information under the Act. The reasons for such sensitivity must be specified. In such cases, the relevant material will be examined in the light of the exemptions provided in the Freedom of Information Act or Environmental Information Regulations, although the University cannot guarantee that any exemption will apply.

Notice publication date: 14 September 2007