Integrated Geospatial Services

A Tender Notice
by DEFRA NETWORK ETENDERING PORTAL

Source
Contracts Finder
Type
Contract (Services)
Duration
2 year
Value
£15M
Sector
ENVIRONMENT
Published
22 Apr 2021
Delivery
21 Jun 2021 to 20 Jun 2023
Deadline
24 May 2021 10:00

Concepts

Location

Geochart for 1 buyers and 0 suppliers

Description

Primary business activities this contract will deliver are around the provision of a flexible workforce and use of remote sensing techniques for: Controls, compliance and monitoring - Enforcing statutory environmental conditions and verifying subsidy scheme claims by remotely inspecting land through the use of computer aided photo interpretation (CAPI) and/ or machine learning techniques. Land registration and digitising - Creation and maintenance of geospatial data products that are used as key controls or reference data against which subsidy scheme claims are cross-checked. Land registration service is administered by the RPA and the data is used extensively by DEFRA and outside the subsidy arena. The business activities can be associated with the contract services include but are not limited to: - Imagery product creation - including orthorectification and pre-processing - Ground truthing, collecting in situ data and rapid field visits - Crop and vegetation classification - Remote sensing inspection and controls - computer aided photo interpretation (CAPI) - Digitising - Rural land registration data maintenance (land parcel data layer, land cover data layer, hedge control data layer), - Quality Control - To provide quality trained resources that can be flexed up or down - Reporting of performance and quality using Management Information (MI) - Supplementary Business Analysis and IT support (Testing, Requirements input, Operational support, MI and performance monitoring) - Geospatial consultancy to deliver proof of concepts and pilot studies to exploit advancements in technology and evolve the operation.

CPV Codes

  • 71354100 - Digital mapping services

Indicators

  • Contract is suitable for SMEs.

Other Information

Bravo Opportunity Link https://defra.bravosolution.co.uk/esop/guest/go/opportunity/detail?opportunityId...

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