Published date: 20 January 2025

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


Closing: 13 January 2025, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development consultancy services - 73200000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£82,891

Procurement reference

CF-0441800D8d000003VQwdEAG

Published date

20 January 2025

Closing date

13 January 2025

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

20 January 2025

Contract end date

4 June 2025

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Call-off from a framework agreement

A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established framework agreement.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The Environment Agency (EA) established the Flood Hydrology Improvement Programme (FHIP) to deliver the priority needs of the roadmap that align with EA needs. FHIP Project EAM7 "New methods in operational flood hydrology" is currently in the discovery phase of its programme which is being delivered as a series of work packages. To resolve limitations of existing standard methods, we need to improve the accessibility and usability of alternative methods to allow these to be easily and affordably applied in operational flood risk modelling studies. The discovery phase of EAM7 is exploring topics such as user needs, barriers to adopting new methods, international best practice, uncertainty, and climate change, to inform decisions on what alternative method will be developed as the proof of concept and how it can be brought into operational use. The aim of this project is to explore how to overcome some of the blockers identified as barriers to adoption: - Methods must have affordable maintained software that is within existing skillsets. - Methods must be supported by guidance documents covering usage and parameters. - Methods must be supported by affordable and accessible training. - Methods must be well communicated, openly endorsed and accepted by legislative authorities. - Methods must be comparable in time and costs to existing methods. - Methods must use readily available, accessible and preferably open data sources. - Methods must have funding for ongoing maintenance, support and updates. The case study chosen for this work package is the UKFE R package. UKFE provides functions to implement the methods of the Flood Estimation Handbook (FEH) and its associated updates, as well as offering additional hydrological functions. The package was developed and is maintained by Anthony Hammond on a personal basis. It is freely available for use under the GPL-3 license from the CRAN repository of R packages. An alphabetical guide to the functions is available with the package, and a quick guide to implementing the FEH methods is available online at UKFE: FEH Quick Guide - FloodHydroStats.

Award information

Awarded date

17 January 2025

Contract start date

20 January 2025

Contract end date

4 June 2025

Total value of contract

£82,891

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Jeremy Benn Associates Limited (t/a JBA Consulting)

Address

1 Broughton Place, Old Lane North, Broughton, Skipton BD23 3FD

Reference

None

About the buyer

Contact name

Adrian Ajibade

Address

17 Smith Square
London
SW1P 3JR
UK

Email

adrian.ajibade@defra.gov.uk