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title: "Stronger Shores Toolkit"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-05a505"
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current_stage: "Tender"
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# Stronger Shores Toolkit

Buyer: SOUTH TYNESIDE BOROUGH COUNCIL  
Current stage: Tender  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-05a505

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## Summary

The procurement process for the "Stronger Shores Toolkit", organised by South Tyneside Borough Council, focuses on creating tools for coastal habitat monitoring and resilience, critical to the Environment Agency's flood and coastal resilience innovation programme. This active tender, categorised under services, covers industry-specific software development, data services, and marine research, with work primarily conducted along the Northeast coast of the UK (region UKC). The procurement follows an open competition approach with a gross contract value of GBP 120,000, and key submission deadlines extended to 10th November 2025, allowing wider participation from interested entities.

The "Stronger Shores Toolkit" tender presents substantial growth opportunities, particularly for businesses specialising in environmental software development, data analysis, and marine research services. Given its scope, companies with expertise in coastal management and ecosystem restoration would find it well-suited to leverage their capabilities. The project necessitates a multidisciplinary approach, encouraging collaboration among technological innovators, environmental consultants, and data specialists to enhance regional coastal resilience efforts while expanding their service portfolios and market reach.

## Notice

Stronger Shores is a project part of the Environment Agency's flood and coastal resilience innovation programme (FCRIP), and aims to Monitor and better understand the composition of existing coastal habitats (specifically seagrass meadows, kelp beds and native oyster reefs) along the Northeast coast Improve understanding about the ways in which these coastal habitats can be restored Identify and quantify ecosystem services these habitats provide. This contract is for the creation and management of the Stronger Shores toolkit and associated works as detailed in the brief document, in addition to the creation and collation of content from Stronger Shores outputs. These will include collected data, lessons learnt, and academic reports. This toolkit will be public facing but will be intended for coastal managers, including natural capital/ ecosystems services data, and guidance on habitat protection and restoration, with the toolkit as the main project output.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/068102-2025 |
| Notice type | UK4 - Tender Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Open |
| Procurement method details | Below threshold - open competition |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Not specified |
| All stages | Tender |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 24 Oct 2025 |
| Submission deadline | 10 Nov 2025 |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | 1 Dec 2025 - 31 Mar 2029 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £120,000 |
| Lots value | £120,000 |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

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

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | SOUTH TYNESIDE BOROUGH COUNCIL |
| Locality | SOUTH SHIELDS |
| Post town | Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Postcode | NE33 2RL |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLC North East (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLC4 Northumberland, Durham and Tyne & Wear |
| ITL 3 | TLC43 Tyneside |
| Local authority | South Tyneside |
| Electoral ward | Beacon and Bents |
| Westminster constituency | South Shields |
| Delivery location | TLC North East (England) |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
- 73 - Research and development services and related consultancy services

### Codes

- 72212100 - Industry specific software development services
- 72314000 - Data collection and collation services
- 72316000 - Data analysis services
- 72421000 - Internet or intranet client application development services
- 73112000 - Marine research services

## Release History

- 24 Oct 2025 at 10:04 - TenderUpdate - UK4 - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/068102-2025
- 30 Sep 2025 at 13:48 - Tender - UK4 - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/060930-2025

## Documents

- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/068102-2025
  24th October 2025 - Tender notice on Find a Tender
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/060930-2025
  30th September 2025 - Tender notice on Find a Tender

## Notice URLs

- https://open-uk.org/
- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents

## Provenance

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