# AI Specific Attacks and Safeguards

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [DSIT](/buyers/dsit/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: Pattern Labs INC
- Award value: £459,875
- Tender value: £459,875
- Award date: 17 September 2024
- Published: 14 October 2024
- Contract start: 17 September 2024
- Contract end: 16 June 2025
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: b2becb03-aa75-4d07-9bf6-cc9a39f70db4-793717
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-052b6327-75ed-45a9-8d5e-0e7b02148eb8

## Description

The Term of the Contract is 6 months, with a provision available to extend for an optional 3 months according to AISI's requirements and approval\. r the maximum 9-month duration\. In delivering this work, a supplier may produce for AISI: Reports and advisory discussions outlining new attacks against frontier AI systems and mitigations that defang them\. Code providing novel attacks and corresponding protections, and computational experiments evaluating them\. Datasets: Datasets consisting of misuse tasks that frontier AI systems should refuse to execute, for example requests to generate hate speech, write malicious code, create media that incites violence, or synthesise illegal imagery\. The Supplier will deliver this work by providing an R&D team that works collaboratively with an AISI researcher whom they meet with once a week\. The Supplier's delivery approach should scope precise requirements with AISI's Safeguards Analysis researchers at the project start and subsequently providing a steady stream of relevant output

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b2becb03-aa75-4d07-9bf6-cc9a39f70db4-793717)