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CivTech 11.1 - How can technology help us to manage the impact of Marine Pen Fish Farms more sustainably?

Scottish Environment Protection Agency

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07 Sep 2026 at 09:38

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04 Sep 2026 at 16:16

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04 Sep 2026 at 16:00

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22 Jul 2025 at 11:41

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Summary of the contracting process

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency commissioned technology services to develop a method or tool for assessing the ecological impact of marine pen fish farms on rocky seabeds and protected marine habitats. The requirement is for a non-invasive, preferably quantitative monitoring approach that is scientifically robust and can show whether fish-farm operations remain within environmental limits. The work supports sustainable aquaculture and protection of sensitive marine ecosystems. It falls within IT consultancy, software development, internet and support services. CivTech’s approach involved public-sector and private-sector collaboration, with the aim of developing a usable product and a business capable of wider application. The activity concerns marine environments associated with Scotland.

This procurement has been awarded following an open procedure. The tender closed on 2 September 2025, with evaluation and bid opening starting the same day. Quality carried all the evaluation weighting, at 100%; price carried 0%. The estimated procurement value was £650,000. One lot had a stated duration of 720 days and was recorded as cancelled, but three active awards were made to Ocean intelligence, each linked to that lot. Three active contracts were then recorded for the same supplier, each valued at £563,870 and signed on 23 July 2026. Fifteen bids were recorded, all from SMEs and submitted electronically; none were from EU bidders and all were from non-EU bidders.

This requirement demonstrates demand for specialist environmental monitoring applied to aquaculture and protected marine habitats. A credible future supplier would need to combine marine ecology, seabed and habitat science with practical technology development. Relevant capability includes designing non-invasive surveys, collecting or interpreting quantitative ecological data, and producing robust methods that can detect environmental effects against defined limits. Suppliers should be able to translate scientific findings into a usable tool or service for a public-sector regulator and work collaboratively through development and testing. The award to an SME shows that smaller innovative businesses can compete, while the all-quality evaluation places particular importance on technical merit, scientific credibility and the usefulness of the proposed solution.

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Notice Information

Notice Title

CivTech 11.1 - How can technology help us to manage the impact of Marine Pen Fish Farms more sustainably?

Notice Description

This challenge focuses on developing a method or tool to assess impacts of Marine Pen Fish Farms (MPFF) on the ecological communities of hard (rocky) seabeds and protected marine habitats where it is neither possible nor appropriate to take a grab sample. What we develop must be a non-invasive and preferably quantitative method to monitor ecological effects. The solution must be scientifically robust and must demonstrate the ability to detect whether MPFF operations remain within environmental limits, supporting sustainable aquaculture practices and the protection of sensitive marine ecosystems.

Lot Information

Lot 1

About CivTech CivTech's mission is to drive daring and innovation in the public sector by collaboratively solving Challenges that make people's lives better - and in doing so create generations of sustainable, high growth businesses. CivTech brings together public sector expertise and private sector innovation to solve real problems, develop new products, and deliver better, faster and easier services for everyone. Central to the approach is co-production with the citizen. Part of the Scottish Government's Digital Directorate, CivTech's approach is helping transform public sector engagement with tech and innovation, delivering significant benefits to public services, producing genuine uplifts for the Scottish economy - and along the way, making lives better. Across the country there are problems public sector organisations would like to solve and in the current environment the need for smart, efficient and effective products has never been greater. The Scottish Government is aware innovation is a good way to create them and is committed to ensuring a large part of its tech spend goes to smaller, innovative businesses. This is where CivTech comes in. The CivTech Innovation Flow is designed to create products as quickly and effectively as possible and uses a true Accelerator model at the heart of its Innovation Flow model. For you - whether you're an individual, team or company - it's an opportunity to take on a Challenge, solve it, and win contracts with a blue-chip public sector organisation. You'll build a product, and a business to take it as far as possible. Because here's the kicker: the Challenges we issue aren't 'single organisation' problems - most exist worldwide. In short: Open Challenges are set. Any organisation, team or individual can respond. Applications are assessed, and shortlisted proposals go into an Exploration Stage where they're developed further [for which participating applicants are paid]. The best go through to the Accelerator - a period of intensive work to create the solution, and through CivTech's unique business workshop system, a business capable of taking the product to the world. Please visit our website for information on CivTech and how to get involved: https://www.civtech.scot/how-to-apply-civtech-11 https://www.civtech.scot/civtech-11-challenge-1-sustainable-aquaculture-industry

Notice Details

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-0563a8
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/084212-2026
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
Tender Suitability
Not specified
Awardee Scale
SME

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

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

CPV Codes

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

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
£650,000 £500K-£1M
Lots Value
£650,000 £500K-£1M
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
£563,870 £500K-£1M

Notice Dates

Publication Date
7 Sep 20261 months ago
Submission Deadline
2 Sep 2025Expired
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
Not specified
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
Scottish Environment Protection Agency
Contact Name
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Contact Email
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Contact Phone
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Buyer Location

Locality
HOLYTOWN, NORTH LANARKSHIRE
Postcode
ML1 4WQ
Postcode Area
Motherwell
Country
Scotland
Major Region (ITL 1)
TLM Scotland
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLM3 West Central Scotland
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLM34 North Lanarkshire
Delivery Location
TLM Scotland
Local Authority
North Lanarkshire
Electoral Ward
Mossend and Holytown
Westminster Constituency
Airdrie and Shotts

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
1
Supplier Name

Ocean intelligence

Further Information

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