Published date: 14 February 2018
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Contract summary
Industry
Staff training services - 80511000
Environmental services - 90700000
Location of contract
East of England
Value of contract
£5,700
Procurement reference
C17-0203-1185
Published date
14 February 2018
Closing date
28 February 2018
Contract start date
12 March 2018
Contract end date
30 April 2018
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?
No
Description
The Marine Protected Sites team has been undertaking an exercise to identify knowledge gaps for offshore MPAs. This indicated that there are sites where additional information on the biotopes associated with listed protected features would enhance understanding of the structure and function of those protected features, and therefore improve our conservation advice.
There are datasets available that can be used to undertake community analysis and biotope assignment from surveys within offshore MPAs. A training workshop is required to teach JNCC staff how to perform community analyses and assign biotopes according to the Marine Habitat Classification of Britain and Ireland. The training workshop will use real datasets from offshore MPAs.An example of the type of content we expect from the workshop is outlined below. We expect the workshop to take 3 days. Tenderers can use this outline as a guide, but should edit or add content, as deemed appropriate, and can suggest alternative timelines.
Overview of content
Day 1 am
Background on tests, differences between cluster methods, steps taken to undertake, interpreting results.
• Cluster analysis
• Ordination
• SIMPER
• Best analysis
Day 1 pm
• Preparing video data for analysis (optional steps depending on data) - assess quality, standardising by area, select subset of images
• Preparing grab data for analysis (optional steps depending on data) - standardise by area
• Preparing species list - remove pelagic, juveniles etc., remove duplication, dealing with mixed P, SACFOR, count
Day 2am
Practical - prepare a dataset for analysis
Day 2 pm
• Undertake cluster analysis, ideally in R, - demo
• Practical - undertake cluster analysis on a dataset and interpret results
• Undertake ordination, ideally in R, - demo
• Practical - undertake ordination on a dataset and interpret results
Day 3 am
• Merging clusters and rerunning cluster analysis - demo
• Merging clusters and rerunning cluster analysis - practical
• SIMPER - demo
• SIMPER - practical
Day 3 pm
• Interpreting results, mapping and matching to biotopes - demo
• Interpreting results, mapping and matching to biotopes - practical
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Attachments
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- C17-0203-1185 Community Analysis Training Workshop.zip
- Bidding documents
- Contract Documents
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