Spatial Modelling and Sensitivity Mapping of Seabirds and Marine Mammals in uk Waters

Published date: 1 December 2021

This notice was replaced on 16 February 2022

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

Awarded contract (published 16 February 2022)

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Contract summary

Industry

Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

tender_283994/1018545

Published date

1 December 2021

Closing date

21 December 2021

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

31 January 2022

Contract end date

30 September 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

We wish to engage a contractor to deliver the following services in support of the Spatial modelling and sensitivity mapping of seabirds and marine mammals in UK waters project, with the contract commencing in Winter 2022 and running until spring / summer 2025.
- Collation (and where necessary, cleaning) of datasets relating to seabird and marine mammal abundance and distribution at sea;
- Applying decision rules to existing datasets / data products to determine target areas for new data collection;
- Modelling of seabird and marine mammal data to produce species-specific distribution maps across UK waters;
- Applying (and, where necessary, deriving) sensitivity information to distributional models in order to produce heat maps of environmental risk, integrating this across models for seabirds, marine mammals, and benthic habitats (produced separately to this contract); and
- Inputting to guidance on usage of the outputs and assisting in testing, promoting and publicising the outputs.

More information

Links

https://defra.bravosolution.co.uk
Link to eSourcing Portal

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About the buyer

Address

Suite D, Unex House
Peterborough
PE1 1NG
England

Telephone

Email

Supplier.enquiries@naturalengland.org.uk