Published date: 5 January 2018

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: 2 February 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Archiving services - 79995100

Location of contract

BS1 5HQ

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

tender_159736/641889

Published date

5 January 2018

Closing date

2 February 2018

Contract start date

2 April 2018

Contract end date

31 March 2020

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Other

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The National Tide Gauge Network (NTGN) is part of the UK Coastal Flood Forecasting Service (UKCFF). UKCFF enables the Environment Agency and partners to issue flood warnings, based upon information from numerical tide-surge models and from the NTGN gauges. The NTGN consists of 43 real time telemetered sites around the coast of the UK. The primary instrument at each site is a bubbler gauge. A bubbler gauge measures the tide levels by measuring the air pressure required to maintain a constant flow of air through an inverted bucket that is submerged at a known depth. The bubbler gauge feeds into a 'digiquartz S500' telemetry outstation that interprets the data and sends to the Environment Agency telemetry system.

The purpose of this contract is the provision of quality assurance and data archiving of the data collected by the NTGN.

There are then two main elements; i) weekly and monthly checking of the TGN data quality to ensure that issues affecting operational reliability of the data are detected promptly and ii) to ensure that a quality controlled archive of the observed measurements is compiled and maintained.

To apply for this opportunity please register and submit your response via defra.bravosolution.co.uk

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Additional text

Please respond to this opportunity via the Bravo website (Project number 22446). All documents and details are under this project in Bravo.

About the buyer

Address

Manley House
Exeter
EX2 7LQ
England

Email

michelle.hingston@environment-agency.gov.uk