Published date: 17 July 2023

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: 7 August 2023, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Analysis services - 71620000

  • Image-processing software development services - 72212328

  • Data analysis services - 72316000

    • Photograph processing services - 79962000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£35,000 to £50,000

Procurement reference

CF-0105500D8d000003VQwdEAG

Published date

17 July 2023

Closing date

7 August 2023

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

28 August 2023

Contract end date

31 March 2024

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) was announced in 2021 as a key bilateral aid programme under the £500m Blue Planet Fund.

OCPP objectives are to support countries to tackle marine pollution, support sustainable seafood practices and establish designated, well-managed and enforced Marine Protected Areas (MPAs).

The overall aim of this project is to produce a machine learning algorithm capable of identifying at least 89 marine litter items as defined by international protocols. The main output of this work will therefore be one of the largest and most detailed databases of high-quality annotated images of marine litter in the world.

Cefas require the successful Tenderer to annotate approximately 7,000 images, collected from 8 beaches along the Ghanaian coast during the wet and dry season. The successful Tenderer will use a photo guide provided to them by Cefas, which will contain example images for the 89 litter categories. In addition, the tenderer will assist Cefas to perform inter-rater assessments at the beginning, middle and end of the contract to better understand human error in litter annotations.

Cefas will provide Tenderers with access to 10 sample images and a classification scheme (via OneDrive) to aid preparation of a submission and pricing. To access these images, please provide your Microsoft Account details (i.e., Outlook, Hotmail, Live, 0356 email address) to Cefas via the 'message centre' on Atamis, so we can authorise access.

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 by searching 'CEFAS23-100 RFQ for annotation of images of marine litter in Ghana' via the Find Opportunities function.

About the buyer

Contact name

Holly Power

Address

Pakefield Road
Lowestoft
NR33 0HT
UK

Email

procure@cefas.co.uk