Contract award · 31 Mar 2023

CivTech 7 - Challenge 7.5 - How might technology help match British Sign Language (BSL) users and their required interpreters more easily and equitably?

Scottish Government awarded “CivTech 7 - Challenge 7.5 - How might technology help match British…” to Deaf Action for £278k on 31 Mar 2023.

IT servicesScotland

Value £278k
WinnerDeaf Action SME

Open competition

Open procedure: the contract was advertised and any supplier could submit a bid.

Key facts

Buyer
Scottish Government · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
Supplier
Deaf Action SME
Value
£277,742
Procedure
Open procedure
Sector
IT services · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support (CPV 72000000)
Region
Scotland
Timeline
  1. Contract date31 Mar 2023
  2. Published5 Sep 2023Published 158 days after the contract date

Description

CivTech’s mission is to drive daring and innovation in the public sector by collaboratively solving Challenges that make people’s lives better – and in doing so create generations of sustainable, high growth businesses. CivTech brings together public sector expertise and private sector innovation to solve real problems, develop new products, and deliver better, faster and easier services for everyone. Central to the approach is co-production with the citizen. Part of the Scottish Government’s Digital Directorate, CivTech’s approach is helping transform public sector engagement with tech and innovation, delivering significant benefits to public services, producing genuine uplifts for the Scottish economy - and along the way, making lives better. Across the country there are problems public sector organisations would like to solve and in the current environment the need for smart, efficient and effective products has never been greater. The Scottish Government is aware innovation is a g…

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