# Using Artificial Intelligence \(AI\) in root fungal colonisation assessment

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew](/buyers/board-of-trustees-of-the-royal-botanic-gardens-kew/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [Cambridge Consultants](/contract-winners/cambridge-consultants/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £170,000
- Tender value: £170,000
- Award date: 12 February 2024
- Published: 3 April 2024
- Contract start: 13 February 2024
- Contract end: 15 April 2024
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: dd6cda8e-d2a2-4525-b7d8-a4ee616aa754-737168
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-aecf2c35-66da-458e-b310-f920ccc5be41

## Description

We require a consultancy service, providing Kew with a development service on an AI visualisation tool for fungal colonisation assessment to drive evidence-based decisions related to the use of this software for the assessment of the colonisation of plant roots by mycorrhizal fungi, along with the improvement of the AI visualisation tool and exploration of the potential of novel tools\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/dd6cda8e-d2a2-4525-b7d8-a4ee616aa754-737168)