Open call for participation in a European funded security project

PARIS - Sept. 26, 2019 - PRLog -- SHUTTLE stands for "Scientific High-throughput and Unified Toolkit for Trace analysis by forensic Laboratories in Europe" and is a research project supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme. The aim of the project is to develop a toolkit which facilitates the microtraces analysis collected in crime scenes. The development of this toolkit will be realised through a Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) action which means that the public authorities within the SHUTTLE project invite the commercial sector to make an offer for the required Research and Development (R&D) services in order to develop the toolkit. The official call for tender was launched on 20^th September 2019. Any interested solution supplier is invited to participate.

Microscopic traces analysis limitations and the SHUTTLE concept
Microscopic traces analysis currently relies on the "Microscopist eyes". It is time-consuming, selective and hardly objective due to the complexity of the process. The SHUTTLE toolkit will contain tools which will help solving these difficulties.
• A microscopic grade tape or any other lifting system
• An automated microscope to acquire high quality images of the recovered traces
• Algorithms for image processing to classify more accurately the identified traces
• A database and search algorithms to facilitate future data analyses and comparisons

The call for tender: Pre-Commercial Procurement of innovative products & services
This PCP action is coordinated and jointly carried out by the SHUTTLE partners which will organize and manage the procurement of R&D services through a three-phases competitive selection process. After the call for tender, the tenders will be reviewed by the consortium and at least four suppliers (Industry, Research Institutes etc.) will be awarded a contract (ca. January 2020) to produce a concept design. In the second phase, the providers of the most promising concept designs will be invited to build a prototype and, after an operational validation process in the third phase, possibly build a larger range of products.

Where to find information on the SHUTTLE toolkit and call for tender?
To learn more about the PCP tender please visit https://www.shuttle-pcp.eu/pre-commercial-procurement/. The tender documents will also be available here: https://www.shuttle-pcp.eu/shuttle-call-for-tenders/.
Additional information can also be found in the Q&A section (https://www.shuttle-pcp.eu/pre-commercial-procurement/qa-section/) of the SHUTTLE Public Website
To subscribe to the SHUTTLE Newsletter, please visit www.shuttle-pcp.eu/newsletter.