Published date: 22 April 2021

This notice was replaced on 12 August 2021

This notice does not contain the most up-to-date information about this procurement. The most recent notice is:

Awarded contract (published 12 August 2021)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Digital mapping services - 71354100

Location of contract

South East

Value of contract

£15,000,000

Procurement reference

tender_231691/953323

Published date

22 April 2021

Closing date

24 May 2021

Closing time

10am

Contract start date

21 June 2021

Contract end date

20 June 2023

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Primary business activities this contract will deliver are around the provision of a flexible workforce and use of remote sensing techniques for: Controls, compliance and monitoring - Enforcing statutory environmental conditions and verifying subsidy scheme claims by remotely inspecting land through the use of computer aided photo interpretation (CAPI) and/ or machine learning techniques. Land registration and digitising - Creation and maintenance of geospatial data products that are used as key controls or reference data against which subsidy scheme claims are cross-checked. Land registration service is administered by the RPA and the data is used extensively by DEFRA and outside the subsidy arena.
The business activities can be associated with the contract services include but are not limited to:
- Imagery product creation - including orthorectification and pre-processing
- Ground truthing, collecting in situ data and rapid field visits
- Crop and vegetation classification
- Remote sensing inspection and controls - computer aided photo interpretation (CAPI)
- Digitising - Rural land registration data maintenance (land parcel data layer, land cover data layer, hedge control data layer),
- Quality Control
- To provide quality trained resources that can be flexed up or down
- Reporting of performance and quality using Management Information (MI)
- Supplementary Business Analysis and IT support (Testing, Requirements input, Operational support, MI and performance monitoring)
- Geospatial consultancy to deliver proof of concepts and pilot studies to exploit advancements in technology and evolve the operation.

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About the buyer

Address

2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF
England

Email

Jonathan.Rosenfeld@defra.gov.uk