Published date: 5 October 2021

Last edited date: 6 October 2021

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: 27 October 2021, 4pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Database systems - 48610000

  • Environmental information systems - 90714100

Location of contract

East of England

Value of contract

£40,000

Procurement reference

C21-0619-1597

Published date

5 October 2021

Closing date

27 October 2021

Closing time

4pm

Contract start date

15 November 2021

Contract end date

31 March 2022

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 MNR is a custom-built database and data input online platform for industry and regulators. It collects data from the entirety of UK waters on noisy activities such as seismic surveys, some sub bottom profiling equipment, impact pile driving, explosives, acoustic deterrent devices, some multibeam echosounders and non-classified Ministry of Defence activity. JNCC has worked with all regulators of noisy activities and the UK devolved administrations to fulfil the commitment made in the UK Marine Strategy to monitor anthropogenic underwater impulsive noise via the registry.
Data are obtained by JNCC via consulting regulators' licensing online portals or are provided by developers directly using simple online forms. Data provision is mandatory in some cases and voluntary in others, dependent on the activity type and licensing procedures involved. Data are submitted on the type of activity and where and when the activity will occur or have occurred. Additional details on the activities such as sound levels and frequencies can also be submitted.
Data for planned activities is submitted at the time of licence applications and once the activity has taken place, close out data is submitted within three months or less of the activity taking place.
In compliance with the UK open data policy, data outputs are generated by JNCC each year and all data are available on request. Data outputs include figures, shapefiles, csv files and tables and are generated through custom built R Studio scripts. These outputs allow mainly for retrospective assessments, for example, they have been used for both UK and OSPAR regional assessments of the underwater noise pressure.
The MNR is hosted and managed by JNCC and has been operational since 2015.
The current MNR system has reached its digital end of life (it was built in 2015), and now has out of date frameworks (Play), and so is proving to be very unreliable. Fixing bugs and making updates has become more and more difficult to the point where the system is now unable to deploy.
The replacement of the MNR system offers the opportunity to make improvements to data input (i.e., making it more user friendly and less error prone) as well as to data accessibility, in line with the UK government Open data policy. Currently, the database is open only to those inputting data, who can access their own data through its portal.
Timetable

• Date for return of tender: Tuesday 26 October 2021 @ 16:00 hours
• Proposed start date: 15 November 2021
• Proposed end date: 31 March 2022

More information

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You are invited by JNCC Support Co (JNCC) to submit a tender for the supply of works or services required under the above project. If interested, you should download and carefully read the documents contained within the zip file.

About the buyer

Address

Monkstone House,City Road
PETERBOROUGH
PE11JY
England

Email

contractqueries@jncc.gov.uk

Website

jncc.gov.uk