CEFAS24-111 Contract for marine litter image annotation services on Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP)

Contract Timeline

Publication Date

10th March 2025 11:55:08 AM

Contract Summary

The Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP) is funded through official development assistance (ODA) as part of the UK's £500 million Blue Planet Fund. Through the OCPP, the UK government partners with ODA-eligible countries to deliver tangible and positive impacts on the livelihoods of coastal communities that depend on healthy marine ecosystems. The programme supports countries to strengthen marine science expertise, develop science-based policy and management tools, and create educational resources for coastal communities. Cefas require the Supplier to provide a marine litter annotation service on drone survey images of beaches for OCPP partners countries. These annotations will be used by Cefas and partners to train machine learning algorithm to automatically detect litter, analyse and report on marine litter. However, the high heterogeneity of litter items within classes (e.g. plastic drinking bottles), sometimes subtle differences between classes (plastic drinking bottles vs plastic cleaning bottles) and regional differences in litter generated (e.g. plastic drinking bags vs plastic drinking bottles) underline the need for large numbers of quality assured annotation data. The Supplier will provide in-country partners with introductory training on the processes, business models and training needed to establish effective image annotation processes.

Contract Details

Open Contracting ID

ocds-b5fd17-c74a426b-2d05-41d5-82da-e2d5f38270fc

Publication Source

Contracts Finder

Procurement Stage

Award

Procurement Method

Open

Procurement Method Details

Open Procedure (below Threshold)

Procurement Category

Services

Tender Suitability

SME VCSE

Framework / DPS

Contract Classification

CPV Code(s)

72316000

CPV Division(s)

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

Awarding Authority

CEFAS

Buyer Name

Holly Power

Buyer Email

procure@cefas.gov.uk

Buyer Phone

Buyer Address

Pakefield Road

Lowestoft

NR33 0HT

UK

Awarded Supplier(s)

Supplier Name(s)

ENVISION