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title: "Marine Recorder Online Support & Hosting - 2025 onwards"
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# Marine Recorder Online Support & Hosting - 2025 onwards

Buyer: JNCC SUPPORT CO  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-b5fd17-79ee63eb-e222-4b6c-80b5-4265f6c8c82a

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## Summary

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.

## Notice

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."

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Contracts Finder |
| Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/999acfa9-a8fb-4141-a8b5-6fc9a39f0ef7 |
| 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 |
| All stages | Tender, Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 14 Apr 2025 |
| Submission deadline | 13 Feb 2025 |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 26 Mar 2025 |
| Contract period | 31 Mar 2025 - 31 Mar 2027 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £108,300 |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | £107,956 |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Not specified |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | JNCC SUPPORT CO |
| Locality | PETERBOROUGH |
| Post town | Peterborough |
| Postcode | PE2 8YY |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLH East (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLH4 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough |
| ITL 3 | TLH41 Peterborough |
| Local authority | Peterborough |
| Electoral ward | Fletton and Stanground |
| Westminster constituency | North West Cambridgeshire |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | OCEAN ECOLOGY |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
- 90 - Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services

### Codes

- 72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
- 90700000 - Environmental services

## Release History

- 14 Apr 2025 at 16:30 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/999acfa9-a8fb-4141-a8b5-6fc9a39f0ef7
- 12 Feb 2025 at 15:51 - TenderAmendment - Tender Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/737e39e5-3291-4410-8ba8-fd95c3f3581c
- 6 Feb 2025 at 15:26 - TenderAmendment - Tender Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/737e39e5-3291-4410-8ba8-fd95c3f3581c
- 3 Feb 2025 at 16:11 - TenderAmendment - Tender Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/737e39e5-3291-4410-8ba8-fd95c3f3581c
- 20 Jan 2025 at 14:53 - TenderAmendment - Tender Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/737e39e5-3291-4410-8ba8-fd95c3f3581c
- 17 Jan 2025 at 16:50 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/737e39e5-3291-4410-8ba8-fd95c3f3581c

## Documents

- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/999acfa9-a8fb-4141-a8b5-6fc9a39f0ef7
  14th April 2025 - Awarded contract notice on Contracts Finder
- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/737e39e5-3291-4410-8ba8-fd95c3f3581c
  12th February 2025 - Opportunity notice on Contracts Finder
- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/59e2c4f2-3718-406d-ae75-95e3625ad18c
  Zip File of all tender documentation
- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/39076678-d4d7-4afb-a8b3-ad9b305c2942
  Q&A Table
- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/578fb852-80f3-415e-9b6b-6c85ce1b0c9c
  Update to Q&A log
- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/c5e6e906-0b7e-40c9-9eb8-36c25a892bc1
  Updated Q&A log

## Notice URLs

- https://www.jncc.gov.uk

## Provenance

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