Published date: 7 June 2024

Last edited date: 16 December 2024

Closed early engagement


Closing date: 28 June 2024

Contract summary

Industry

  • Geographic information systems (GIS or equivalent) - 38221000

  • IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support - 72000000

  • Data management services - 72322000

Location of contract

RG1 1AF

Procurement reference

CF-0308900D8d000003VQwdEAG

Published date

7 June 2024

Closing date

28 June 2024

Contract type

Service contract

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) is an executive agency sponsored by Defra. As the only accredited paying agency in England, the RPA makes payments to farmers, traders and land owners. The RPA also make payments on behalf of Natural England, and manages over 40 schemes to help ensure England has a healthy rural economy and strong rural communities.

Satellite data is business critical for RPA to provide risk assurance in the delivery of the Farming and Countryside Programme (FCP) schemes which use the RPA's Rural Land Register (RLR). The current compliance monitoring processes for FCP schemes are manual, resource-intensive, inefficient and have high fraud and error rates. They rely on field visits, paperwork, and subjective assessments, leading to delayed evaluations, increased administrative burdens, and only capture a small percentage of the entire population.

To overcome these challenges, RPA requires an advanced technological solution capable of streamlining national monitoring processes.

The purpose of this notice is for the RPA to make known its intention of a planned procurement and to commence the market engagement process (in advance of commencing any formal procurement process) for a geospatial analytics and remote monitoring platform. Prospective tenderers are requested to read the prospectus on this Contracts Finder microsite and to complete a response to the market engagement questionnaire in Annex 1 of the prospectus by Friday 28th June 2024 10:00.

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Geospatial analytics and remote monitoring platform

  • Early engagement
  • Published 7 June 2024, last edited 7 June 2024

Attachments

About the buyer

Contact name

Neil Widdop

Address

North Gate House, 21-23 Valpy Street
Reading
RG1 1AF
UK

Email

neil.widdop@defra.gov.uk