Geospatial Analytics and Remote Monitoring Service: To provide a monitoring service that releases farm payments by DEFRA. £17.75m over 10 years.

Closing date 11.03.2025.

NatureScot is undertaking a GIS transformation programme that will see its GIS infrastructure and services refreshed and migrated to a Cloud platform.

They expect to commence a procurement exercise in the summer of 2025 and first wish to obtain information from current market providers to help us further develop our requirement specifications.

They are interested to learn to what extent you can help with a variety of technology components and/or support services. They are particularly interested to hear about open-source technologies, as we have less experience in this area, but are open to any technology. They would also be interested to explore managed service options for some, or all, of our proposed GIS enterprise architecture.

Information required by 28 March 2025.

This Dynamic Purchasing System is to establish a pool of qualified suppliers to provide field data collection services. It will be broken into geographical lots and possibly work elements. For the following:

Survey work such as National Forest Inventory (NFI) and Trees Outside of Woodlands (TOW)

The installation of surveying/monitoring equipment for our National Capital Ecosystem Assessment (NCEA) work

Suppliers who can help with our Forest Mensuration and Production surveys (such as U18), Forest Attribute Surveys to update GIS information, collection of data from experimental sites.

They are particularly interested in suppliers who have experience using GIS technology, handheld GPS devices, field survey techniques. They would like to also have the option to explore the use of future ancillary technologies such as Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) and terrestrial based LiDAR. They do not expect all suppliers to be able to provide all services, not all of these skills will be required for each mini-competition.

The Irish Agency IFI NBMP is establishing a multi-operator Framework Agreement(s) for the procurement of Engineering and Environmental Consultancy Services.

Lot 5 – Geospatial Surveying Services

Closing date 27.03.2025