Notice Information
Notice Title
Geospatial analytics and remote monitoring service (GAS)
Notice Description
The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) is an executive agency sponsored by Defra. As the only accredited paying agency in England, the RPA makes payments to farmers, traders and land owners. The RPA also make payments on behalf of Natural England, and manages over 40 schemes to help ensure England has a healthy rural economy and strong rural communities.<br/><br/>Satellite data is business critical for RPA to provide risk assurance in the delivery of the Farming and Countryside Programme (FCP) schemes which use the RPA's Rural Land Register (RLR). The current compliance monitoring processes for FCP schemes are manual, resource-intensive, inefficient and have high fraud and error rates. They rely on field visits, paperwork, and subjective assessments, leading to delayed evaluations, increased administrative burdens, and only capture a small percentage of the entire population.<br/><br/>To overcome these challenges, RPA requires an advanced technological solution capable of streamlining national monitoring processes.
Lot Information
Lot 1
The capabilities required for this contract are summarised below:
(a) to implement a minimum viable product (MVP) within twelve months of the contract start date;
(b) to provide the following core functionality for users:
* to use imagery sources to identify farm habitats;
* to monitor land use and cover changes with respect to farming activities;
* to extract markers from imagery sources;
* to ingest imagery sources and other data from other RPA and Defra Group systems;
* to publish outputs to other RPA and Defra Group systems;
* to monitor compliance with scheme agreements for a land parcel; and
* for users to utilise the Supplier's solution in the field and add their own imagery sources and ground truth data for a land parcel.
(c) to provide product delivery, user-centred services, IT service management, and hosting;
(d) to provide the capability to introduce future services, such as integrating additional imagery sources, provisioning additional imagery sources, developing new data products derived from imagery sources, developing new markers, and integrating the Supplier's solution with other RPA and Defra Group systems; and
(e) to provide the option for other Defra Group Bodies (https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations#department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs) and other UK "Paying Agencies" to utilise the contract. Additional information: The contract value is expected to be up to PS9,691,693.27 (net of VAT) during the overall maximum 10-year term (5+2+2+1), which includes the cost of implementation, ongoing operational service charges, contract extensions, contract changes and an allowance for indexing of prices. The contract value is an estimate only and will be dependent upon whether an extension (in part or in whole) is enacted, whether any optional services (in part or in whole) are enacted, the extent of any contract changes, and the indices used to index prices.
Options: The contract term will consist of a 5 year initial term, with the option to extend for a further 5 years in 5+2+2+1 increments.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-04d6e3
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/066047-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- SME
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
38 - Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)
48 - Software package and information systems
72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
-
- CPV Codes
38221000 - Geographic information systems (GIS or equivalent)
48517000 - IT software package
72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
72322000 - Data management services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £17,750,000 £10M-£100M
- Lots Value
- £17,750,000 £10M-£100M
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £9,691,693 £1M-£10M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 16 Oct 20254 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- 11 Mar 2025Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 25 Sep 20255 months ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- RURAL PAYMENTS AGENCY
- Additional Buyers
- Contact Name
- Neil Widdop
- Contact Email
- neil.widdop@defra.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- LONDON
- Postcode
- SW1P 4DF
- Post Town
- South West London
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLI London
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLI3 Inner London - West
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLI35 Westminster and City of London
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Westminster
- Electoral Ward
- St James's
- Westminster Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster
Further Information
Notice URLs
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
View full OCDS Record for this contracting process
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