Published date: 19 July 2022

Last edited date: 25 July 2022

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 29 July 2022, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Marine survey services - 71354500

  • Survey services - 79311000

  • Survey analysis services - 79311300

Location of contract

South West

Value of contract

£20,000

Procurement reference

tender_311028/1089445

Published date

19 July 2022

Closing date

29 July 2022

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

8 August 2022

Contract end date

30 September 2022

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Cefas wishes to commission a contract to undertake the analysis of seabed imagery (still images and video) collected from the Plymouth Sound and Estuaries SAC in 2021.
- Analysis will be undertaken as set out in imagery specification provided for this work ('Imagery Spec', included as part of the Tender package) and adhering to the NMBAQC Epibiota interpretation guidelines (Turner et al, 2016).
- The online annotation software BIIGLE will be used to annotate video and still images as described in the analysis specification.
- Video tows are to be segmented into areas of continuous broadscale seabed habitat type greater than or equal to 5 m along transect distance.
- A minimum of 10% of the videos and stills should be re-analysed for QA purposes by the contractor and reported on.
- Any deviation from this methodology should be approved in writing by the Cefas project officer.
- The successful Tenderer will produce an analysis report.
- Substrate and taxonomic image reference collections are required
- A start-up meeting will be held with the winning Tenderer within a week of the contract being awarded. During the start-up meeting Cefas will provide guidance on use of BIIGLE in MPA projects if needed.

Access to the imagery in a BIIGLE project will be given on request to aid in the tendering process.

Outputs
1. Weekly project summary updates
2. A short report, see guidance document for a suggested report outline.
3. Data are to be entered within the proforma spreadsheets.
a. Completed and QC'd stills proformas
b. Completed and QC'd video proforma
4. Still/video proforma and species matrices to be provided for the internally QA'd samples.
5. A combined video/still image reference collection for the taxa identified.
6. A combined video/still image reference collection for the biotopes encountered.

Quantity:
344 minutes of video and 355 stills from 27 stations

About the buyer

Address

Pakefield Road
Lowestoft
NR33 0HT
England

Email

procure@cefas.co.uk

Website

www.cefas.co.uk