Published date: 10 March 2025

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


Closing: 20 September 2024, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Data analysis services - 72316000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£50,000 to £100,000

Procurement reference

CF-0469900D8d000003VQwdEAG

Published date

10 March 2025

Closing date

20 September 2024

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

16 December 2024

Contract end date

31 March 2025

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?

Yes

Description

The Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP) is funded through official development assistance (ODA) as part of the UK's £500 million Blue Planet Fund. Through the OCPP, the UK government partners with ODA-eligible countries to deliver tangible and positive impacts on the livelihoods of coastal communities that depend on healthy marine ecosystems. The programme supports countries to strengthen marine science expertise, develop science-based policy and management tools, and create educational resources for coastal communities.

Cefas require the Supplier to provide a marine litter annotation service on drone survey images of beaches for OCPP partners countries. These annotations will be used by Cefas and partners to train machine learning algorithm to automatically detect litter, analyse and report on marine litter. However, the high heterogeneity of litter items within classes (e.g. plastic drinking bottles), sometimes subtle differences between classes (plastic drinking bottles vs plastic cleaning bottles) and regional differences in litter generated (e.g. plastic drinking bags vs plastic drinking bottles) underline the need for large numbers of quality assured annotation data.

The Supplier will provide in-country partners with introductory training on the processes, business models and training needed to establish effective image annotation processes.

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Award information

Awarded date

16 December 2024

Contract start date

16 December 2024

Contract end date

31 March 2025

Total value of contract

£47,933

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Envision

Address

Mallan House, Bridge End, Hexham, Northumberland NE46 4DQ

Reference

None

About the buyer

Contact name

Holly Power

Address

Pakefield Road
Lowestoft
NR33 0HT
UK

Email

procure@cefas.gov.uk