# AI Strategic Business Partner

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [DSIT](/buyers/dsit/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [Capgemini UK plc](/contract-winners/capgemini-uk/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £1,875,000
- Award date: 19 December 2024
- Published: 13 February 2025
- Contract start: 19 December 2024
- Contract end: 31 March 2025
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: e0b3024b-d249-4446-8ef9-2c4bcc09d24a-826093
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-44639304-b36f-4577-8bd4-7ced35b680b9

## Description

The AI Safety Institute \("AISI"\) are a function within the Department for Science Innovation and Technology \("the department"\)\. AISI operates in a very fast-moving technology context where AI model capabilities are growing in rapid and sometimes unexpected ways, including across different languages and media\. As part of its work AISI is seeking to stimulate the wider safety research marketplace\. One element of this involves contracting a series of partners to help develop evaluations for frontier AI systems and involves discovery and consultancy with the AI market to support its core objective of improving the safety of frontier AI\. Therefore, AISI is looking to appoint a Strategic Business Partner who can support this objective with an emphasis on flexibility and pace\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/e0b3024b-d249-4446-8ef9-2c4bcc09d24a-826093)