The Connected Places Catapult (CPC) has gone out to tender with a £380,000 contract for data engineering services as part of a project Anglian Water is collaborating in to develop a demonstrator Digital Twin of critical infrastructure across the water, energy and telecoms sectors.

The CPC is working together with National Digital Twin Programme, Anglian Water, UK Power Networks and BT to develop a demonstrator Digital Twin to showcase how combining data and insights across sectoral and organisational boundaries will increase resilience to extreme weather events, through improved coordination of operational and investment decisions.

The CPC’s ambition is for the Digital Twin (or a reasonably late-stage prototype) to be demonstrated at COP26 in November 2021; at the latest, the demonstrator will be ready for dissemination by the end of 2021.

As part of this work, the CPC is seeking a supplier to assist with delivering the data engineering that underpins this Digital Twin. This will include data engineering, with data scientists and modellers as users, and descriptive data visualisation - showcasing the fusing of disparate datasets and computer models to paint a picture of multiple infrastructure systems in one place.

Digital Twins can be used for:

• strategic planning - ong-term planning, exploring how the physical asset can be as effective and efficient as possible, before the asset is completely delivered
• operational planning - short-term, tactical planning to optimise the use of already existing assets
• active operations - adapting operation of an asset based on frequent feedback on conditions of use

In the context of the tender, only strategic and operational planning are relevant.

Deadline to submit expressions of interest is 14 June 2021 – click here to access the tender documentation

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