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title: "Cumulative Effects Framework Hosting and Maintenance"
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# Cumulative Effects Framework Hosting and Maintenance

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/cumulative-effects-framework-hosting-and-maintenance-ocds-h6vhtk-0589b5). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Scottish Government: "Cumulative Effects Framework Hosting and Maintenance". Published status: planned. Planned Pipeline Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNED (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Scottish Government](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/scottish-government-GB-PPON-PVCB-3739-TNGL)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Data services, Database services, Energy-efficiency consultancy services, Environmental issues consultancy services, Environmental services (+4 more)
- **Delivery Location:** UKM
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-0589b5`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/cumulative-effects-framework-hosting-and-maintenance-ocds-h6vhtk-0589b5#tl-md)

## Description
The Offshore Wind Directorate has a requirement to provide long term hosting, maintenance, and development of the Cumulative Effects Framework (CEF) on a digital platform. The contractor will be responsible for the full migration of the CEF model on a new, secure hosting platform, and setting up and testing the business as usual operation of the CEF on the platform through trial runs with known parameters. The contractor is expected to maintain and manage the CEF infrastructure including completing all necessary software updates as required by the Scottish Government, and ensuring that the tool is easily accessible on a secure platform for the users to undertake runs using their own parameters and scenarios. Hosting of the CEF will include providing regular use performance updates, guidance, backups, bug fixes and updates to ensure most current and relevant information and approaches are utilised. Further, the contractor will be responsible for the development of all CEF model components e.g. managing the CEF Data Store/library and undertaking the appropriate updates to datasets as new information becomes available such as new Seabird Census Data and seabird GPS distribution maps.
This tender will provide a mechanism for iteratively estimating offshore windfarm effects on key receptors which ultimately feed into offshore wind project level environmental assessments and future planning work that supports sustainable development of offshore wind energy and successful delivery of climate change net zero targets.
The Scottish Government is undertaking early market engagement in advance of a potential procurement exercise. We are inviting suppliers to attend a virtual engagement event to explore and discuss the forthcoming requirement. The purpose of the Event:
This session will provide a high-level overview of the requirement and invite suppliers to:
-ask probing questions to clarify the scope and objectives;
-share initial thoughts and ideas on how they would approach the requirement; and
-help inform the development of the procurement strategy and specification.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planned
- **CPV codes:** 71314300, 72000000, 72300000, 72320000, 73000000, 73110000
- **Delivery regions:** UKM

- **Description:** A procurement is likely to follow from the market engagement as either an Open Procurement or a Call-Off from the Scottish Government Digital technology and cyber services: dynamic purchasing system. The supplier event will help to inform the Route t...

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F049468-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-08-18T11:45:08.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-27T19:54:52.444Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-0589b5