Published date: 5 December 2016

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: 9 January 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research services - 73110000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

BIP229950059

Published date

5 December 2016

Closing date

9 January 2017

Contract start date

1 February 2017

Contract end date

31 May 2017

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Tenderers are invited to set out proposals to assess the feasibility of using Earth Observation (remote sensing data in combination with reference data) to track land use change in the United Kingdom over time.

This work aims to support a decision by BEIS to develop a more accurate and repeatable way for the UK to track land use change in its greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory.

The work is:
•to assess the feasibility of methods of using Earth Observation to track UK land use and land use change over time; and
•to develop a costed roadmap for delivering an operational system for tracking land use and land use changes in the UK from 1990 onwards suitable for incorporation in the inventory.

The work will be tendered as three (3) lots.
•Lot 1: Coarse resolution optical sensors (>250m resolution)
•Lot 2: Medium resolution optical sensors (10-80m resolution)
•Lot 3: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sensors and SAR+optical data fusion

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About the buyer

Address

3 Whitehall Place
London
SW1A 2AW
UK

Email

sidscienceteam@decc.gsi.gov.uk