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Published 25 May 2021, 09:15 BST

Official UK procurement notice

CivTech 5 Challenge 2 - How can we use technology to estimate herbivore populations and their impacts across Scotland in a greener and more cost effective way?

Official notice

Authority: Scottish Natural Heritage

ServicesOpen procedureSME suitable
Awarded value£180,860published contract · exc. VAT
Awarded 1 Mar 2021
Awarded to SG Access Solutions Ltd, Sentinel Unmanned

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The current preferred method of herbivore population assessment is expensive and has a high carbon footprint – we need to find greener and more cost-effective ways of collecting, collating, quality assuring and sharing the data relating to this task. Scottish Natural Heritage undertake herbivore population assessments in order to determine and manage populations. This challenge will specifically focus on deer counting. The current methods of gathering data – primarily through helicopter flights – are costly and have a high carbon footprint. Furthermore, methods of collating, quality assuring, presenting and sharing the data are also fairly costly in terms of staff time needed to ensure a high level of accuracy to generate stakeholder confidence in findings.

So how can we use technology to estimate herbivore populations and their impacts across Scotland in a greener and more cost effective way?

Please note: Scottish Natural Heritage will soon be changing its name to Nature Scot

Please visit our website for information on CivTech and how to get involved

www.civtechalliance.org/civtech-innovation-flow ↗

CPV: Business and management consultancy and related services · Computer support and consultancy services · Data collection and collation services · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · Research and development services and related consultancy services · Software programming and consultancy services · Wildlife preservation services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1About CivTechAwarded

About CivTech

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 solutions to public sector problems as quickly and effectively as possible. For you – whether you’re an individual, team or company – it’s an opportunity to take 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 to them. Applications are assessed, and shortlisted proposals go into an Exploration Stage where they’re developed further. 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 emerging product to the world.

Please visit our website for information on CivTech and how to get involved

www.civtechalliance.org/civtech-innovation-flow ↗

Delivery: Scotland

What it takes to win
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How this buyer will score bids.

The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
How bids were scored
Quality: 100%
Published award criteria (2)
  • Quality: 100
  • Price: 0

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record · publisher note attached
Procedure method
Open procedure
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Awarded
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
25 May 2021, 09:15 BST
Last source update
25 May 2021, 09:15 BST
FTS notice number
2021/S 000-011561
Classification (CPV)
Business and management consultancy and related servicesComputer support and consultancy servicesData collection and collation servicesIT services: consulting, software development, Internet and supportResearch and development services and related consultancy servicesSoftware programming and consultancy servicesWildlife preservation services
Delivery area
Scotland (UKM)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02b49b Find a Tender

Publisher note: (SC Ref:655044)

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £180,8601 contract exc. VAT
Bids received 66 from SMEs
Contracts signed 1latest 1 Mar 2021
Awarded toValueDateStatus
SG Access Solutions LtdSME, Sentinel UnmannedSMEjoint award£180,860 †—Awarded

Contracts

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
6bids · 6 electronic · 6 from abroad6——

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Scottish Natural Heritage

Contracting authorityMinistry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisionsGeneral public services Great Glen House, Leachkin Road, Inverness, Scotland, IV3 8NWContact name, email, phone

Dispute resolution & review bodies

  • Edinburgh Sheriff CourtReview body Edinburgh

Bidders & participating suppliers

2 commercial parties on the notice
  • SG Access Solutions LtdAwarded supplier 9 Bankhead Drive, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH11 4EJContact phone
  • Sentinel UnmannedAwarded supplier 30 Sterte Ave, Poole, UK, BH15 2APContact phone

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.