Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-12-06
Buyer: Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 35631200 | 72316000: Data analysis services | 73110000
Estimated value: 135000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-01-09
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Tenderers are invited to set out proposals to assess the feasibility of using Earth Observation (remote sensing data in combination with reference data) to track land use change in the United Kingdom over time.
This work aims to support a decision by BEIS to develop a more accurate and repeatable way for the UK to track land use change in its greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory.
— to assess the feasibility of methods of using Earth Observation to track UK land use and land use change over time; and
— to develop a costed roadmap for delivering an operational system for tracking land use and land use changes in the UK from 1 990 onwards suitable for incorporation in the inventory.
For background information, the full specification and further information on this project please see the ITT.
Given the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) requirement for remote sensing to be coupled with reference data, BEIS wishes to understand how land use can be tracked using the wide range of potential reference datasets present in the UK. Hence, the work is separated into lots that will enable a range of different satellite sensors and reference datasets to be demonstrated.
Within each Lot, contractors may choose the most appropriate satellite data, reference data and analytical methods, taking account of the research questions and methodological considerations below. Analyses should take into account the land use categories used in the UK's LULUCF inventory when assigning particular land covers to land uses.
This contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement, and the contract will be awarded on the basis of the most economically advantageous tender.
Given the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) requirement for remote sensing to be coupled with reference data, BEIS wishes to understand how land use can be tracked using the wide range of potential reference datasets present in the UK. Hence, the work is separated into lots that will enable a range of different satellite sensors and reference datasets to be demonstrated.
Within each lot, contractors may choose the most appropriate satellite data, reference data and analytical methods, taking account of the research questions and methodological considerations below. Analyses should take into account the land use categories used in the UK's LULUCF inventory when assigning particular land covers to land uses.
This contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement, and the contract will be awarded on the basis of the most economically advantageous tender.
Given the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) requirement for remote sensing to be coupled with reference data, BEIS wishes to understand how land use can be tracked using the wide range of potential reference datasets present in the UK. Hence, the work is separated into Lots that will enable a range of different satellite sensors and reference datasets to be demonstrated.
Within each lot, contractors may choose the most appropriate satellite data, reference data and analytical methods, taking account of the research questions and methodological considerations below. Analyses should take into account the land use categories used in the UK's LULUCF inventory when assigning particular land covers to land uses.
This contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement and the contract will be awarded on the basis of the most economically advantageous tender.
The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement.


Award value: 135000