Award

Marine Recorder Online Support & Hosting - 2025 onwards

JNCC SUPPORT CO

This public procurement record has 6 releases in its history.

Award

14 Apr 2025 at 16:30

TenderAmendment

12 Feb 2025 at 15:51

TenderAmendment

06 Feb 2025 at 15:26

TenderAmendment

03 Feb 2025 at 16:11

TenderAmendment

20 Jan 2025 at 14:53

Tender

17 Jan 2025 at 16:50

Summary of the contracting process

JNCC SUPPORT CO has awarded the contract for "Marine Recorder Online Support & Hosting - 2025 onwards" to Ocean Ecology Limited. The procurement falls under the industry category of IT services, specifically consulting, software development, Internet, and environmental services. The project entails application support, hosting in a Microsoft Azure cloud environment, and legacy data migration, among other tasks. The contract commenced on 1st April 2025 and will run until 31st March 2027, covering the East of England in the United Kingdom. This process was executed as an open procedure below the threshold, with a maximum bid value of £108,300, and the award value finalised at £107,956.09.

This tender offers significant opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and voluntary, community, and social enterprises (VCSEs) in the IT and environmental services sectors. Businesses with expertise in application support, cloud hosting, and data migration are well-positioned to compete for similar contracts, thereby expanding their portfolio and gaining experience working alongside prominent organisations such as JNCC. The procurement approach ensures transparency and equal opportunity, facilitating growth for businesses that can provide high-quality and sustainable solutions for marine biodiversity data management.

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Notice Title

Marine Recorder Online Support & Hosting - 2025 onwards

Notice Description

Project Background The platform replaces the old "Marine Recorder" desktop application, which is at end-of-life and no longer sustainable for business use. It is used by all UK SCNBs (JNCC, Natural England, NatureScot, Natural Resources Wales, DAERA) and key marine NGOs, which provide high-quality marine benthic survey evidence. The geospatial biodiversity and accessory data within the platform are curated under the custodianship of a closed list of custodian organisations, the only route for data into the system being via one of these organisations which will provide the overall responsibility of quality control and data entry. Data within the system is key to a wide variety of UK and international marine and conservation reporting objectives and forms the backbone of many policy decisions and further informative datasets across all countries in the UK. As such, it contains a reporting application, to provide key stakeholders the ability to query and extract final data in the system for their public task needs, and to their level of data access. Data entry to the system is currently via UI and spreadsheet import, with Restful JSON API planned for development shortly. Marine Recorder Online is multi-tenant, providing each custodian with their own domain for their data management application. They manage their own data according to their internal business needs and data release practices. All relevant final data are subsequently pooled in the reporting system to provide a full UK view of marine biodiversity data but with access defined by row-level permissions on the data to match the end user's access level. The system itself is administrated by a designated organisation, currently JNCC, in charge of managing the users, internal dictionaries, configuration updates, triaging new support tickets, and responding to Tier 1 support. The application currently receives hosting and support for Tier 2, 3, and 4 issues under contract, this ITT seeks to provide continued support and hosting for the application moving forward. The scope of the contract includes: * Application support, including Tier 2-4 support provision and software upgrades * Application hosting in a Microsoft Azure cloud environment * Hosting support including system maintenance and Tier 2-4 support provision * Legacy data migration * Offboarding and porting."

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-b5fd17-79ee63eb-e222-4b6c-80b5-4265f6c8c82a
Publication Source
Contracts Finder
Latest Notice
https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/999acfa9-a8fb-4141-a8b5-6fc9a39f0ef7
Current Stage
Award
All Stages
Tender, Award

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
Award Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Open
Procurement Method Details
Open procedure (below threshold)
Tender Suitability
SME, VCSE
Awardee Scale
SME

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

90 - Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services


CPV Codes

72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

90700000 - Environmental services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
£108,300 £100K-£500K
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
£107,956 £100K-£500K
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
14 Apr 202510 months ago
Submission Deadline
13 Feb 2025Expired
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
26 Mar 202511 months ago
Contract Period
31 Mar 2025 - 31 Mar 2027 1-2 years
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Complete
Lots Status
Not Specified
Awards Status
Active
Contracts Status
Not Specified

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
JNCC SUPPORT CO
Contact Name
Sharon Joyce
Contact Email
sharon.joyce@jncc.gov.uk
Contact Phone
01733562626

Buyer Location

Locality
PETERBOROUGH
Postcode
PE2 8YY
Post Town
Peterborough
Country
England

Major Region (ITL 1)
TLH East (England)
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLH4 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLH41 Peterborough
Delivery Location
Not specified

Local Authority
Peterborough
Electoral Ward
Fletton and Stanground
Westminster Constituency
North West Cambridgeshire

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
1
Supplier Name

OCEAN ECOLOGY

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