Published date: 14 May 2024

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


Closing: 23 April 2024, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Analysis services - 71620000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£54,000

Procurement reference

CF-0298700D8d000003VQwdEAG

Published date

14 May 2024

Closing date

23 April 2024

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

10 May 2024

Contract end date

31 March 2025

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Single tender action (below threshold)

A direct contract with a single supplier, without competition.

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

Background:
The Marine Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment (mNCEA) programme is a flagship science innovation programme that is addressing integrating natural capital and ecosystem assessment approaches into policy and decision making for marine and coastal environments. Ecosystem assessment tells us about the health of our natural environment and how this is changing over time, whereas natural capital describes the economic, social and environmental value our natural assets hold for people, from food to carbon storage to health and wellbeing. The mNCEA programme is funded by Defra and delivered by its partners (The Arm's Length Bodies - ALBs)
Phase I of the Macroalgae Seagrass Model Development project, for the Land-sea Interface work in the mNCEA programme, was completed during October 2023 - March 2024. This phase provided analysis and data on seagrass occurrence within Langstone harbour (Ward and Preston, 2024) that informed development and calibration of the seagrass component within the extended CPM mode being developed under mNCEA (LSI) WP3.
Based on the recommendations in the technical report submitted to Cefas (Ward and Preston, 2024), and directly shaped by explicit data needs communicated by Cefas staff, Cefas require the supplier to provide the below services.
Requirement:
Cefas require the supplier;
1.
To provide feedback on the underlying principles, and utility of the Cefas CPM model.
2.
To provide an updated seagrass coverage spatial map for Langstone Harbour.
3.
To provide data on seasonal cycles of seagrass coverage at selected sites in Langstone harbour.
4.
To provide spatial estimates of seagrass above and below ground biomass.
5.
To collate suite of abiotic data to further characterise environmental conditions in relation to seagrass presence.
6.
To analyse which ranges of potentially predictive environmental variables, including depth, tidal inundation, bathymetric slope and current speed, correlate with known seagrass extent.

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Award information

Awarded date

8 May 2024

Contract start date

10 May 2024

Contract end date

31 March 2025

Total value of contract

£54,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

University of Portsmouth

Address

University House, Winston Churchill Ave, Portsmouth PO1 2UP PO1 2UP

Reference

None

About the buyer

Contact name

Jade Peek

Address

Pakefield Road
Lowestoft
NR33 0HT
GB

Email

procure@cefas.gov.uk