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# The Canyons MCZ DY200 eQA drop camera analysis

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/the-canyons-mcz-dy200-eqa-drop-camera-analysis-ocds-h6vhtk-05e4da). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** JNCC SUPPORT CO: "The Canyons MCZ DY200 eQA drop camera analysis". Published status: active. Published Value: £16,500. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 15 Dec 2025, 09:00 GMT. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [JNCC SUPPORT CO](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/jncc-support-co-coh-05380206)
- **Published Value:** £16,500 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 15 December 2025 at 09:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Below threshold - open competition
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Analysis services, Environmental monitoring other than for construction, Marine survey services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 8 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/the-canyons-mcz-dy200-eqa-drop-camera-analysis-ocds-h6vhtk-05e4da#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-05e4da`

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## Submission
- **Submission method:** Please submit your return by email to the following address:  TenderResponse@jncc.gov.uk.

## Description
2.	Project Summary
In September 2025, NOC and JNCC conducted a survey aboard the RSS Discovery (DY200) gathering evidence to monitor The Canyons MCZ and inform assessment of the condition of the designated features of the site.
The Canyons MCZ is in the far south-west corner of the UK continental shelf and is unique within the context of England's largely shallow seas due to its depth, sea-bed topography and the coral features it contains. The designated features of The Canyons MCZ are listed in Table 1.  More information on The Canyons MCZ can be found in the JNCC site information centre (https://jncc.gov.uk/our-work/the-canyons-mpa/).
Table 1 Designated features of The Canyons MCZ
Protected Feature	Feature Type
Deep-sea bed	Broadscale marine habitat
Cold-water coral reefs	Feature of Conservation Importance
Coral gardens	Feature of Conservation Importance
Sea-pen and burrowing megafauna communities	Feature of Conservation Importance
Figure 1 Location of The Canyons MCZ in the context of Marine Protected Areas proximal to the site with existing multibeam data from previous surveys to The Canyons MCZ from the MESH 2007, JC125 (2015) and JC237 (2022) surveys, and EMODnet bathymetry.
3.	Project Aims
JNCC wishes to commission a contract to undertake the external quality assurance (eQA) analysis of seabed imagery (still images and video) collected on the DY200 survey via drop frame camera.
More detailed metadata will be provided as well as information from logs and the survey report. There are also representative images from the DY200 survey shown in Appendix E.
Table 2 Number of stills and hours of video data to be analysed from DY200.
Data type	Quantity
Drop camera video	5 hours video
Drop camera stills	300 images
AUV images	100 images
The following will be supplied to the successful contractor:
•	Access to BIIGLE project with all stills, video and label trees.
o	Please email the contacts for technical information (see page 1) if you would like to be added as a guest to the BIIGLE project to review the imagery.
•	Epibiota Quality Assurance Framework Proforma spreadsheets
4.	Original Project Objectives
To meet the overall aims of this project, the objectives for the original analysis were:
1.	Analysis of stills and video taken with the drop-camera system
2.	Provide substrate and taxonomic image reference collections for each substrate type and taxon identified from imagery.
3.	Produce a final analysis report including, at a minimum, sections detailing the methodology, results , and details of all QA work undertaken with any remedial action deemed necessary. The report should be no longer than 10,000 words including all tables and appendices and be provided electronically via email as a Microsoft Word document.
4.	Create a subset of stills annotated in a way suitable to act as training data for artificial intelligence.
The contractor must:
•	Undertake the analysis as set out below and adhering to the NMBAQC Epibiota interpretation guidelines (Turner e...
> [Read full procurement scope and specification on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/the-canyons-mcz-dy200-eqa-drop-camera-analysis-ocds-h6vhtk-05e4da)

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 71354500, 71620000, 90711500
- **Delivery regions:** UK
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB
- **Estimated Value:** £16,500

- **Contract Period:** 05/01/2026 to 27/02/2026

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F075430-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-12-11T11:44:48.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-27T18:39:08.833Z
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