Geospatial Enabling Programme Delivery Partner

Description

Geospatial (land) data is a critical asset for Defra as it provides insight into land use to inform policy decisions that can be distributed effectively to maximize economic growth whilst supporting nature recovery. The Geospatial Enabling Programme can enable delivery of better policy making to deliver our priorities, by resolving issues within the geospatial data landscape and developing the spatial targeting capability. <br/>A lack of accurate geospatial (land) data has meant that historically multiple versions of the same area of land exist across Defra group and there are areas of rural land not currently captured in Defra mapping systems. This inhibits effective policy development through spatial targeting due to differing views of the geometry and land use. This also translates into a poor end user experience, where farmers are asked repeatedly to input the same information into different systems belonging to the Defra group. <br/>The purpose of this notice is for DEFRA to make known that a Further Competition is being conducted under the CCS Space-Enabled and Geospatial Services Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) (reference RM6235) for a Delivery Partner to support the Geospatial Enabling Programme. <br/>Suppliers can access this by visiting https://crowncommercialservice.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html and locating ITT reference itt_84717. Interested suppliers who are not on the DPS who may wish to participate should visit https://www.crowncommercial.gov.uk/agreements/RM6235 for further details. Suppliers who join the DPS after Thursday 17th July will not be added to itt_84717. Please note the buyer address at https://defra-family.force.com/s/Welcome which will be required for contract management. Lot 1: To correct this situation, the Geospatial Enabling Programme are targeting an Industry Partner who can deliver against the following priorities: <br/>• Develop prototypes and design the following based on user/business requirements from across Defra and 6 ALBs:<br/>• An authoritative source of land use and boundary map for rural England (common land base map (master reference layer) generated from Defra’s insights and other data products<br/>o Providing a common map of land to facilitate collaboration <br/>o Will provide accurate data that can be exploited by innovative technology, for example drone surveillance and AI <br/>o It will support streamlining of grants processes, by providing improved access to land use data for spatial targeting of subsidies, grants and financial incentives more efficiently <br/>• Integrate existing foundational land datasets for England derived from ALBs and 3rd parties into one data product (Defra Land Model) to: <br/>o Prevent duplication and maximize investment in licensing <br/>o To support data sharing across Defra Group for the effective delivery of outcomes <br/>o Reducing data debt across the Defra Group that will ensure policy and delivery teams are using consistent data to drive decisions, thereby reducing the impact of conflicting policy interventions <br/>o To provide accessibility to foundational land datasets for all Defra and the 6 ALBs<br/>• Development and delivery of a common geospatial data standard framework to enable sharing of data across Defra Group and externally<br/>• To define a service model which will focus on data management, data governance of the master reference layer and Defra land model. Additional information: The budget for the initial term (six (6) months) is at a total of £1.45M (ex VAT) with the total contract value expected to be up to an estimated total cost of £13.45m (ex VAT) during the overall maximum 4-year and six month term (6 Months+3+1), which includes the cost of implementation, delivery of the Statements of Work ( Stage 1) as described within the tender pack and optional Statements of Work (Stage 2) that may be called off as part of a contract extension (subject to approvals). The contract value is an estimate only for resourcing costs and does not include costs for technology or digitising of data. The contract value estimate will be dependent upon whether an extension (in part or in whole) is enacted, whether any optional services (in part or in whole) are enacted, the extent of any contract changes, and the indices used to index prices. In addition, the maximum allowable day rate for this contract is £2,000 (excluding VAT).