Spark DPS

Start your journey to services under the Internet of Things (IoT) through a range of delivery methods, including:

• Devices (things)
• Applications
• Data management platforms
• Security
• Connectivity
• Network equipment

Looking to accelerate your workflow with artificial Intelligence and automation? We’re here to help you with:

• Machine learning
• Speech recognition
• Intelligent applications
• Deep neural networks
• Robotic process automation
• Virtual assistants
• Chatbots
• Conversational user interfaces
• Natural language processing
• Predictive analytics
• Prescriptive analytics
• Smart robots
• Artificial general intelligence
• Computer vision
• Artificial intelligence platform as a service (paas)
• Artificial intelligence related consulting and systems integration
• Ensemble learning

Seeking a supplier to work with on developing and deploying simulated and enhanced environments? BT can bring expertise to your organisation on:

• Spatial computing 
• Virtual reality 
• Augmented reality
• Brain-computer interface

Manage and utilise your data more effectively with BT. We can deliver a variety of data services through a range of delivery methods, including:

• Human in the loop crowdsourcing 
• Blockchain/distributed ledger
• Event stream processing
• Data marketplaces and trusts
• Fraud detection
• Data loss prevention
• Location tracking
• Data presentation

Is your organisation looking to step into the new and expanding world of wearables to enhance your business practices? BT can provide support with:

• Displays
• Exoskeleton/muscle computer interface
• Sensors
• Smart cards, rings etc.

Are you responsible for delivering a new transport strategy or further developing one already in place? Let BT bring our expertise in new and emerging technologies to you, including:

• Personal on-demand transport
• Autonomous vehicles
• Commercial unmanned aerial vehicles (drones)

Develop and expand your security services and bring new ways of tackling and defending against security threats to your organisation. Let BT bring our security expertise in new and emerging technologies to you, including:

• Threat prevention
• Digital credentials
• Cameras, visual detection and recording (not body-worn)
• Body worn cameras
• Access control, biometrics and facial recognition
• Drone counter measurements
• Hardware based security
• Encryption
• Decryption
• Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) defence
• End-point protection

Under DPS agreements there is only the option to run a further competition. Please follow the steps below to start this procurement journey.

1. Register as a buyer on the DPS marketplace. Although the pages are called ‘Supplier registration’ this is the right place to register.

2. In the Technology section, go to Automation marketplace DPS

3. Choose ‘Access as a buyer’ and confirm you accept the customer access agreement

4. Then view appointed suppliers

5. Use the filtering tool to specify your requirements and create your supplier shortlist

6. Use your shortlist to run a further competition so the DPS will identify suitable suppliers

7. Invite the suppliers to bid against your detailed specification, evaluation criteria and contract formula