Published date: 22 August 2024
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Opportunity (published 22 August 2024, last edited 9 September 2024)
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Contract summary
Industry
Analysis services - 71620000
Image-processing software development services - 72212328
Data analysis services - 72316000
Location of contract
Any region
Value of contract
£100,000 to £120,000
Procurement reference
CF-0353100D8d000003VQwdEAG
Published date
22 August 2024
Closing date
13 September 2024
Closing time
12pm
Contract start date
10 October 2024
Contract end date
31 March 2026
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 Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP) is funded through official development assistance (ODA) as part of the UK's £500 million Blue Planet Fund. Through the OCPP, the UK government partners with ODA-eligible countries to deliver tangible and positive impacts on the livelihoods of coastal communities that depend on healthy marine ecosystems. The programme supports countries to strengthen marine science expertise, develop science-based policy and management tools, and create educational resources for coastal communities.
Marine litter is a growing threat to ecosystems and the livelihoods that depend on them, particularly in developing states whose economies are often dependent on sectors directly affected by litter. The OCPP is supporting partner countries to utilise the latest automation technologies to address scientific monitoring demands in resource constrained environments.
Cefas require the Supplier to provide a marine litter annotation service on drone survey images of beaches for OCPP partners countries. These annotations will be used by Cefas and partners to train machine learning algorithm to automatically detect litter, analyse and report on marine litter. However, the high heterogeneity of litter items within classes (e.g. plastic drinking bottles), sometimes subtle differences between classes (plastic drinking bottles vs plastic cleaning bottles) and regional differences in litter generated (e.g. plastic drinking bags vs plastic drinking bottles) underline the need for large numbers of quality assured annotation data.
Current OCPP countries which may be included in this Contract are: Belize, Ghana, Senegal, Bangladesh, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Madagascar, Mozambique, Vanuatu.
The Contract will be awarded for completion of annotation on up to 50,000 images and is dependent on demand from OCPP partner countries.
The Contract will be awarded for a maximum of £120,000 - however, please note that Cefas is unable to guarantee the volume or value of work that will be required within this maximum limit.
ACCESS TO Cefas Marine Litter Photo Guide, schema and example images - if you are interested in bidding, please request access via the Message Centre function and you will be sent a zip file containing the supplementary files. These must be treated confidentially and must only be used for the purposes of writing and submitting your bid for this specific Invitation to Tender.
To view this opportunity please go to https://defra-family.force.com/s/Welcome
You will need to log in or create a new supplier account. The opportunity can then be found searching 'CEFAS24-111 ITT for marine litter image annotation services for OCPP'.
About the buyer
Contact name
Holly Power
Address
Pakefield Road
Lowestoft
NR33 0HT
UK
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