Published date: 14 April 2025

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


Closing: 13 February 2025, 4pm

Contract summary

Industry

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

  • Environmental services - 90700000

Location of contract

East of England

Value of contract

£108,300

Procurement reference

C24-0405-1998

Published date

14 April 2025

Closing date

13 February 2025

Closing time

4pm

Contract start date

1 April 2025

Contract end date

31 March 2027

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?

Yes

Description

Project Background

The platform replaces the old "Marine Recorder" desktop application, which is at end-of-life and no longer sustainable for business use. It is used by all UK SCNBs (JNCC, Natural England, NatureScot, Natural Resources Wales, DAERA) and key marine NGOs, which provide high-quality marine benthic survey evidence.

The geospatial biodiversity and accessory data within the platform are curated under the custodianship of a closed list of custodian organisations, the only route for data into the system being via one of these organisations which will provide the overall responsibility of quality control and data entry.
Data within the system is key to a wide variety of UK and international marine and conservation reporting objectives and forms the backbone of many policy decisions and further informative datasets across all countries in the UK. As such, it contains a reporting application, to provide key stakeholders the ability to query and extract final data in the system for their public task needs, and to their level of data access.
Data entry to the system is currently via UI and spreadsheet import, with Restful JSON API planned for development shortly.
Marine Recorder Online is multi-tenant, providing each custodian with their own domain for their data management application. They manage their own data according to their internal business needs and data release practices. All relevant final data are subsequently pooled in the reporting system to provide a full UK view of marine biodiversity data but with access defined by row-level permissions on the data to match the end user's access level. The system itself is administrated by a designated organisation, currently JNCC, in charge of managing the users, internal dictionaries, configuration updates, triaging new support tickets, and responding to Tier 1 support.
The application currently receives hosting and support for Tier 2, 3, and 4 issues under contract, this ITT seeks to provide continued support and hosting for the application moving forward.

The scope of the contract includes:
• Application support, including Tier 2-4 support provision and software upgrades
• Application hosting in a Microsoft Azure cloud environment
• Hosting support including system maintenance and Tier 2-4 support provision
• Legacy data migration
• Offboarding and porting."

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Marine Recorder Online Support & Hosting - 2025 onwards

  • Opportunity
  • Published 17 January 2025, last edited 12 February 2025

Attachments

Award information

Awarded date

26 March 2025

Contract start date

1 April 2025

Contract end date

31 March 2027

Total value of contract

£107,956.09

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Ocean Ecology Limited

Address

River Office
Seven Park
Epney
Gloucestershire
GL2 7LN

Reference

Companies House number: 08961638

Value of contract

£107,956.09

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

No

Additional details

Can be extended by one year

About the buyer

Contact name

Sharon Joyce

Address

Quay House, 2 East Station Road
Fletton Quays
PETERBOROUGH
PE2 8YY
England

Telephone

01733562626

Email

Sharon.Joyce@JNCC.gov.uk

Website

https://www.jncc.gov.uk