RE:News:DM bids on 40 mln AI contract in CanadaMy take is tha tthis is a new bid, not associated with MDA.
I'd say that this is a new Nexa SMART bid for the (Canadian) Department of Defence, or another Ministry - perhaps something associated with the Canadian Public Health Agency.
On that possibility I had written a post, a few weeks back, highlighting the following:
Public Health Agency launches intelligence team to prepare for future pandemics
- Public Health Agency of Canada has reorganized its internal divisions and assembled a security and intelligence section tasked with providing better, faster warnings of future pandemics
- officials confirmed the reorganization; they refused to provide details on how the security and intelligence team will be organized.
- Auditor General Karen Hogan released a blistering report on the handling of the Global Pandemic Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN), a multilingual monitoring system that scours the internet for reports of infectious diseases. (Note: If DM could contribute to the new warning system, it could perhaps benefit from GPHIN's multilingual system to help expand SMART's current multilingual capabilities)
- The decision to establish the new unit comes at a time when governments everywhere are under pressure to improve their health intelligence capabilities. The World Health Organization (WHO) and allies such as the United States, Britain and Germany are planning major pandemic early warning initiatives. (Note: If DM could get involved it may open up doors to other countries/organisations - those mentioned or others)
- At a summit meeting in Brussels last week, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that the world needs more than vaccines to move on from the current crisis. "We need better surveillance,..We need to be prepared in the infrastructure...It would be good if we worked together and agreed on that to reform the WHO because, in particular, we have to improve the early warning system..."
- The UK, as host of this year's G7 summit, made preventing another global catastrophe one of the summit's key themes. The U.K.'s top science adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, has said that an improved early warning system would be a critical component of post-pandemic rebuilding efforts.
- WHO, which was a big supporter of Canada's GPHIN, is pushing for countries to cooperate more closely and is calling for a global pandemic preparedness treaty.
GalAnonymous wrote: Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - August 4, 2021) - Datametrex AI Limited (TSXV: DM) (FSE: D4G) (OTCQB: DTMXF) (the "Company" or "Datametrex")is pleased to announce that it has entered into bidding process under a Requests for Proposals ("RFP") on an Artificial Intelligence ("AI") contract in Canada.
Datametrex has passed the second round of scrutiny in a Canadian AI bid. The value of the contract is approximately $40 million. The binding bid remains subject to meeting all criterias on technical merit and ability to deliver in accordance with the bid procedures and deadlines.
"Canada is an important market for the Company's AI business and we are pleased to enter into this bidding process on this contract supporting expansion of artificial intelligence in Canada while continuing our global roll-out activities and the introduction of even further technologically advanced Ai to the market," stated Marshall Gunter, CEO of Datametrex.