--- title: "FeAST Replacement Development, Hosting & Support" ocid: "ocds-b5fd17-16c0d95a-b3fd-46a6-b259-88fc485a91a4" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-16c0d95a-b3fd-46a6-b259-88fc485a91a4" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-16c0d95a-b3fd-46a6-b259-88fc485a91a4.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-16c0d95a-b3fd-46a6-b259-88fc485a91a4.json" source: "Contracts Finder" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "JOINT NATURE CONSERVATION COMMITTEE" published: "2022-10-31" --- # FeAST Replacement Development, Hosting & Support Buyer: JOINT NATURE CONSERVATION COMMITTEE Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-b5fd17-16c0d95a-b3fd-46a6-b259-88fc485a91a4 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-16c0d95a-b3fd-46a6-b259-88fc485a91a4) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-16c0d95a-b3fd-46a6-b259-88fc485a91a4.json) ## Summary The Joint Nature Conservation Committee is seeking to redevelop the Feature Activity Sensitivity Tool (FeAST) for Scottish conservation features. This tender, titled "FeAST Replacement Development, Hosting & Support," falls under the environmental services category and is in the planning stage. The contract period is from November 18, 2022, to March 25, 2023, with a total budget of £46,000. The procurement method is an open procedure, and the future notice date for this opportunity is October 31, 2022. The buying organisation is based in Peterborough, England, and is open to SMEs. This tender presents an opportunity for businesses that specialize in environmental services to participate in the redevelopment, hosting, and support of the FeAST application. Companies with expertise in cloud-based solutions and marine conservation sensitivity tools would be well-suited to compete. The focus of this project is on enhancing user experience, adding functionality, and ensuring secure hosting for the FeAST application. The Joint Nature Conservation Committee is actively seeking collaboration with interested suppliers to achieve these objectives and meet the conservation needs of Scottish marine features. ## Notice The Feature Activity Sensitivity Tool (FeAST) Working Group made up of JNCC, Marine Scotland, Marine Scotland Science, NatureScot and SEPA are looking to redevelop the existing FeAST application. This is to address user feedback on areas where the current tool could be improved, allow the addition of different marine features and additional functionality. Additionally, the redevelopment is to provide a secure cloud-based hosting and support solution. This project is the second stage in the redevelopment process and aims to take the functional requirements captured in the first stage and use these to realise a new solution. The successful bidder is expected to work with the FeAST Working Group and other application users, in developing, testing, implementing, then hosting and supporting a redeveloped FeAST application. The Feature Activity Sensitivity Tool (FeAST) is a tool used to collate information on feature sensitivities, pressures, activities, and the evidence on which this is based for Scottish features of conservation importance. The sensitivity data contained in the FeAST tool originally came from a 2010 project, MB0102, led by the Marine Biological Association (MBA). The data was subsequently modified to make sensitivity assessments more applicable to Scottish features and activities, and pressures were altered to be in line with OSPAR work. The tool is currently hosted on the Marine Scotland (MS) website and has been live since 2013. A new introductory FeAST home page was published by NatureScot to help explain ongoing work . It is possible through FeAST to search by either marine feature or activity. FeAST presents assessments of sensitivity of Scottish features of conservation importance to various pressures (e.g., siltation) and links these to marine activities that could be associated with these pressures. It evaluates and combines assessments of tolerance and recovery to derive an overall sensitivity score. It does not consider the intensity, frequency or cumulative impacts from activities taking place at specific locations. Although there are other sensitivity tools a key distinction is that FeAST is the only tool that provides assessments at the wider feature level . The other tools assess sensitivity at a biotope level, i.e., a more detailed level in the habitat classification hierarchy. The aim in any redevelopment is to retain the current 'feature' level focus to help ensure its usability in the future. Much of the legislation and policy focus is on lists of habitats and species at a feature level, such as Priority Marine Features (PMFs), ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Contracts Finder | | Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/6e01c91d-c600-4c78-a5ca-c158676e62c7 | | Notice type | Planned Procurement Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Not specified | | Procurement method | Open | | Procurement method details | Open procedure (below threshold) | | Tender suitability | SME | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Planning | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 31 Oct 2022 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 31 Oct 2022 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | 18 Nov 2022 - 25 Mar 2023 | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | £46,000 | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Planned | | Lots status | Not specified | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | JOINT NATURE CONSERVATION COMMITTEE | | Locality | PETERBOROUGH | | Post town | Peterborough | | Postcode | PE1 1JY | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLH East (England) | | ITL 2 | TLH4 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough | | ITL 3 | TLH41 Peterborough | | Local authority | Peterborough | | Electoral ward | Central | | Westminster constituency | Peterborough | | Delivery location | Not specified | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 90 - Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services ### Codes - 90700000 - Environmental services ## Release History - 31 Oct 2022 at 16:32 - Planning - Planned Procurement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/6e01c91d-c600-4c78-a5ca-c158676e62c7 ## Documents - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/6e01c91d-c600-4c78-a5ca-c158676e62c7 31st October 2022 - Future opportunity notice on Contracts Finder - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/1752274b-656f-4d44-b864-9d15a1e5132f - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/b2dbf7c4-75c2-4b28-954d-43f3f8f25595 - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/9e9dcb44-30f2-496e-ab5a-6e00d5c0cd36 - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/9ee15cd2-0dd1-4640-a518-d4b0f7157f73 - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/424976bc-be57-495d-80d0-afd36d1e3170 - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/34966bb6-d02c-42d8-8028-eb007fca2647 - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/69e437ae-6abe-4ed5-97cd-65f9a54cef47 - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/68d38e9f-e587-46b0-b3d4-0817e5b12443 - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/58492535-d1e6-4ef8-a6eb-1dc692725bb1 - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/9b97858c-fdb3-47cd-a0ca-8215d6d110b2 - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/cf94e126-3e82-4ca9-b147-28e7f5cc69c0 - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/b7a8ddc9-35f2-4443-8a22-34d80c1104ea - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/e4adf7c6-d1df-42ad-b57f-eee34156a84b - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/9062f18b-3100-41cb-bccc-71099ca407bb - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/5254295a-711e-4130-b389-84f1750002bf - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/fe0d7e2b-8522-4bcc-9777-026b305a1336 - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/fef32cb3-6414-4752-83e5-320ef333f89c - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/0a9253c7-496b-444f-80b1-86b09f874ac5 - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/4ec3719f-cae6-4005-bd33-64a0bdffe95a - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/ff2347d0-6401-432c-82c3-89a82764ca2b - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/4ac45d92-fa09-4bcb-8770-113b2a3a21ed - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/ee9d42b3-eb5d-4e3f-87a1-2337d98a1793 - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/cc33e17c-f547-48d5-84b0-7855d0408dd8 - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/90dbe21a-875a-4287-8646-bdff5e6af676 - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/db44b58d-1101-4bc8-8e61-b9f3f03ca980 - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/5b24dd7f-daf1-48f2-b81f-ac2c26d6ef4e - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/3c92ff76-d659-4aa0-83fa-3d3144c3e348 - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/08fdebe4-ada9-4269-a612-77d2059f9da2 - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/419a4030-967c-4ea4-a9eb-66b6fba50fcc - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/98cb944f-4168-44a7-892c-dc666636a874 ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. The canonical page is https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-16c0d95a-b3fd-46a6-b259-88fc485a91a4. The underlying structured data is available as OCDS JSON at https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-16c0d95a-b3fd-46a6-b259-88fc485a91a4.json.