Published date: 21 March 2022

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


Closing: 25 February 2022, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Technical support services - 71356300

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£24,938.52

Procurement reference

tender_300753/1052673

Published date

21 March 2022

Closing date

25 February 2022

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 March 2022

Contract end date

31 March 2022

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?

No

Description

As part of Ambition 5 of the FCRM Mapping & Modelling plan, the Environment Agency would like to try and automate as many manual processes involving mapping and modelling data and information as possible. One of the potential processes identified as having the potential for automation is the creation of recorded flood outlines from historic photographs.

The primary outcome of this commission is to complete an initial discovery piece of work, including a potential proof of concept, to investigate whether Artificial Intelligence and automation can be used to generate a 'first draft' recorded flood outline using a range of historic flood photographs. This work will potentially help save a significant amount of staff time in creating recorded flood extents after a flood event. This is currently quite a manually intensive process and so any improvements we can offer will be welcomed by area operations teams.

The Consultant will focus on the use of both Oblique and ground level photographs in testing different methods of AI to create these extents.

Award information

Awarded date

25 February 2022

Contract start date

1 March 2022

Contract end date

31 March 2022

Total value of contract

£24,938.52

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

AECOM Limited

Address

Aldgate Tower, 2 Leman Street, London, United Kingdom, E1 8FA

Reference

Companies House number: 01846493

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

17 Nobel House
London
SW1P 3JR
England

Email

Network.Procurement@defra.gov.uk