Published date: 10 February 2017

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


Closing: 8 August 2014

Contract summary

Industry

  • Data services - 72300000

  • Data collection and collation services - 72314000

  • Marine research services - 73112000

    • Environmental services - 90700000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£998,591

Procurement reference

tender_95500/566325

Published date

10 February 2017

Closing date

8 August 2014

Contract start date

9 September 2014

Contract end date

31 March 2019

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Other:

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

1. Ensure best practice survey/ questionnaire design from the Office for National Statistics - to meet project milestones, we need to carry out a questionnaire survey and issue a data request on the impact of rewilding of water courses on fish/ salmonids in the UK. As a Government Agency we need to ensure best-practice design, layout and construction of the survey/ questionnaire. We had not originally budgeted for this work. The most efficient way to complete this task was to sub-contract the Office for National Statistics.

2. Provide additional modelling work on flows and salmonids - original milestones relied on salmonid data available from the Environment Agency. However, we are now also collaborating with Queen Mary College, University of London (QMUL) and the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT). GWCT have provided us with much more spatially comprehensive data than that available from the EA, from sampling programmes in catchments of interest to our study, including extensive data for the River Frome and additional data for the Welsh Dee. We were also alerted to the existence of supplementary flow data from Natural Resources Wales, from gauging stations not within the National River Flow Archive. We are working closely with GWCT and QMUL to ensure consistency across methods for analysing relationships between salmonid populations and river flow. This collaboration, along with the enhanced data provided, will allow us to perform more detailed analyses of a wider range of criteria, which will deliver added value and be highly applicable to the Defra Catchment Based Approach policy framework. In addition, new modelling opportunities provided by an enhanced catchment model (ECM+) would greatly enhance further analysis given the detailed calibration with monitoring data that this model provides.

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Award information

Awarded date

1 September 2014

Contract start date

9 September 2014

Contract end date

31 March 2019

Total value of contract

£998,591

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Cefas

Address

Pakefield Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR33 0HT, UNITED KINGDOM

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

DEFRA
London
SW1P 3JR
England

Email

Network.Procurement@defra.gsi.gov.uk