Published date: 12 August 2021

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 12 August 2021, 10am

Contract summary

Industry

  • Digital mapping services - 71354100

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£3,701,669

Procurement reference

tender_231691/988426

Published date

12 August 2021

Closing date

12 August 2021

Closing time

10am

Contract start date

1 September 2021

Contract end date

31 August 2023

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

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

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes


Description

Contract award notice for the provision of integrated geospatial digital mapping services and associated remote sensing techniques for:
controls, compliance and monitoring; enforcing statutory environmental conditions and verifying subsidy scheme claims by remotely inspecting land through the use of computer aided photo interpretation (CAPI) and/ or machine learning techniques.
Land registration and digitising entails the creation and maintenance of geospatial data products that are used as key controls or reference data against which subsidy scheme claims are cross-checked.
Land registration service is administered by the RPA and the data is used extensively by DEFRA and outside the subsidy arena.
The business activities can be associated with the contract services include but are not limited to:
- Imagery product creation - including orthorectification and pre-processing
- Ground truthing, collecting in situ data and rapid field visits
- Crop and vegetation classification
- Remote sensing inspection and controls - computer aided photo interpretation (CAPI)
- Digitising - Rural land registration data maintenance (land parcel data layer, land cover data layer, hedge control data layer),
- Quality Control
- To provide quality trained resources that can be flexed up or down
- Reporting of performance and quality using Management Information (MI)
- Supplementary Business Analysis and IT support (Testing, Requirements input, Operational support, MI and performance monitoring)
- Geospatial consultancy to deliver proof of concepts and pilot studies to exploit advancements in technology and evolve the operation
The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) is an executive agency of Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) that is responsible for annual payments of over £2 billion in direct aid and rural development to farmers, land managers and food producers in England.


More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Integrated Geospatial Services

  • Opportunity
  • Published 22 April 2021


Award information

Awarded date

28 June 2021

Contract start date

1 September 2021

Contract end date

31 August 2023

Total value of contract

£3,701,669

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Cyient Europe Limited

Address

1st Floor, Block A, Apex Plaza, Forbury Road; Reading, Berkshire, RG1 1AX

Reference

No reference - other

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No


About the buyer

Address

DEF 2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF
England

Email

FFCPCommercial@defra.gov.uk