Invitation to Tender - Celtic Sea Data Hub Creation

Description

Scope of Work The data held are intended to be used throughout the whole development lifecycle, with a strong focus on the planning phases; resource assessment, early feasibility assessments, consenting, bid preparations and so on. Whilst the developers will be the main early users and contributors of data, many other stakeholders such as the Crown Estate, academic researchers, regional industrial groups and related consultancies, media and the general public are all expected to need to access the data for different purposes. Therefore, CSP have decided to tender for the construction of a Data Portal. This section of the document outlines the requirements of the Portal. 2.1 Definitions -Archive High-durability storage for difficult to replace data. -Celtic Sea Area of sea between the South-West of England, South Wales and East Ireland -CSP Celtic Sea Power -CSV Comma-Separated Values - A text format for numerical tables. In this document it is includes files with various field delimiters, such as semi-colons or other single characters. -Data Entry An item consisting of a file or collection of files that has data of a particular type relating to a specific place and time. Information Classification: CONTROLLED -Developer Floating Offshore Wind Farm Developer - a company intending to develop a floating offshore wind farm in the Celtic Sea. -FLOW Floating Offshore Wind (Data) Portal The system being specified by this document to hold, visualize and otherwise make accessible various data about the -Celtic Sea. Ingested Data Data as originally supplied to the system. Researcher An academic researcher into the assessment, construction, development, operation and decommissioning of floating offshore wind farms. -Shapefile Sometimes known as ESRI Shapefile after the company that originated the format. A format for Geographically-linked, or pure geographic data. It consists in a collection of files with the same filename within the same directory. -Supplier The company selected to develop and maintain the Portal. Users Users of the Portal. -Wind Rose A commonly used graphical display for summarizing wind data at a fixed point in space, over time.