Motion Capture System

Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: United Kingdom

1. Title: MOTION CAPTURE SYSTEM
2. Awarding Authority: Sheffield Hallam University, GB. Web:
3. Contract type: Supply contract
4. Description: The awarding authority is one of the most progressive and innovative universities in the country. It has an annual turnover exceeding £260 million and employs over 4,400 staff. The awarding authority has over 30,000 students enrolled (including more than 2,000 overseas students) across more than six hundred courses. Of these, 24,000 are undergraduate students and over 6,000 are postgraduates (taught and research).
The awarding authority has recently launched its new strategy which sets out an ambitious vision to be the world’s leading applied University. Our mission is simple: we transform lives. We do this by shaping our students’ futures and preparing them for whatever they choose to do, and by creating knowledge that provides practical solutions to real world challenges. Behind this statement of mission, the strategy outlines four ‘pillars’.
Shaping Futures
Creating Knowledge
Leading Locally and Engaging Globally
Building a Great University
The University comprises four academic faculties and sixteen professional services that provide corporate services and support to the faculties. These are shown below. The faculties are sub-divided into subject based departments and incorporate a number of nationally and internationally recognised research institutes and centres.
Faculties Faculty of Health and Wellbeing (“HWB”)
Sheffield Business School (“SBS”)
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (“SSH”)
Faculty of Science, Technology and Arts (“STA”)
Professional Services
Admissions & UK Recruitment
Education and Employer Partnerships
Human Resources & Organisational Development
Library & Student Support Services
Registry Services
Student Engagement, Evaluation & Research
Communications & Development
Facilities
Global Engagement
Marketing
Research and Innovation Office
Digital Technology Services
Finance & Planning
Learning Enhancement & Academic Development
Secretariat and Governance Services
The University is a Higher Education Corporation as defined under the Education Reform Act 1988, and also enjoys exempt charitable status by virtue of that Act. The University includes all wholly owned subsidiaries of the University, including but not limited to SHULaw
Further information on the University can be found at www.shu.ac.uk
The University requires a Motion Capture Analysis System for the Faculty of Health and Wellbeing (HWB) at the University’s Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre (AWRC), which is currently under construction on the site of Sheffield’s Olympic Legacy Park.
Motion capture systems enable 3D assessment of movement capability and are critical to the description and explanation of human and mechanical movement. Direct applications of the use of motion capture systems range from the measurement of segmental speed and rotation in a golf swing, to changes in segmental sequencing as a result of an exercise intervention for patients with diseases that impair basic movement. Motion capture systems are an essential part of biomechanics infrastructure as they allow the measurement of kinematics. In combination with force plate systems, they allow the inference of joint moments and powers, which are important for assessment of movement in both sporting and healthcare contexts.
The motion capture system will benefit the AWRC project by facilitating multi-disciplinary academic expertise from sports and materials engineering, psychology, health and social care and software development. Examples of motion capture applications include investigations of footwear on artificial turf, the biomechanics of turning in athletes and exercise interventions that help improve walking or daily living capabilities in elderly adults. The Motion Capture System is to interface with the AWRC Force Plates (Project reference 1819-45-HWB-SAS)
5. CPV Code(s): 38650000, 45214630
6. NUTS code(s): UKE, UKE3, UKE32
7. Main site or location of works, main place of delivery or main place of performance: Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre
8. Reference attributed by awarding authority: 1819-46-HWB-SAS
9. Estimated value of requirement: Not provided.
10. Date documents can be requested until 26.2.2019 (14:00:00).
11. Address to which they must be sent: For further information on the above contract please visit Web:
12. Other information: OJEU Notice : 2019/S 018-037855
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