Published date: 15 December 2021

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


Closing: 1 November 2021, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and experimental development services - 73100000

  • Design and execution of research and development - 73300000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£340,000

Procurement reference

tender_256206/1023613

Published date

15 December 2021

Closing date

1 November 2021

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

9 December 2021

Contract end date

31 December 2024

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Single tender action (below threshold)

A direct contract with a single supplier, without competition.

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

Cefas is developing a fisher-led approach to better monitor cetacean bycatch, with a primary focus on gillnet fisheries in the South-west of the UK. As part of this initiative, Cefas is pursuing the development of an affordable, scalable and flexible cetacean bycatch electronic monitoring (EM) solution. By using on-deck voice recognition technology and advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI), our ambition is to advance current EM solutions to the next level.

The requirement is to develop and produce the Insight360 EM system (including hardware, software & machine learning), deploy aboard participating commercial fishing vessels and to undertake sea trials of the Insight360 EM system, involving up to 10 vessels from fishing ports in the South-west of the UK, with modifications made to sequentially improve the system. A full report and evaluation on the performance and accuracy from sea-trials of the Insight360 EM system is also required.

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Award information

Awarded date

9 December 2021

Contract start date

9 December 2021

Contract end date

31 December 2024

Total value of contract

£340,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Arribada Initiative

Address

25 Montague Rado, M33 3BU

Reference

No reference - other

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory
Lowestoft
NR33 0HT
England

Email

procure@cefas.co.uk