Tender Summary

Integrated Geospatial Services

Buying Organisation

Defra Network eTendering Portal

Contract Value

£15,000,000

Suitable for SMEs

Yes

Suitable for VCSEs

Yes

Tender 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.

Tender categories (products & services required)

Digital mapping services (CPV 71354100)

Region

South East (UKJ)

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