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Forthcoming BNSC GIFTSS Opportunity - Use of EO for Shoal Monitoring
BNSC is working with the General Lighthouse Authorities of the United Kingdom and Ireland (GLAs) – being referred to in this Project as the “Sponsors” – to put together an Invitation To Tender (ITT) for an implementation of a Test Project under the BNSC Government Information From the Space Sector (GIFTSS) Initiative. The purpose of this investigative Project is to assess whether satellite-borne Earth Observation (EO) techniques can assist in detecting and monitoring changes, in the location or topography, for selected shoals within the coastal waters of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. As a first step, we wish to be able to identify those companies, organisations or teams who have the suitable skills and facilities to undertake the Project.
GIFTSS aims to develop an increased usage of information derived from ongoing space assets by “end-users” in Government. Such “end-users” have operational activities to continue to deliver against statutory requirements. These activities can be expected to be part of ongoing and government funded requirements to be delivered in a continuing manner and against performance metrics.
GIFTSS Test Projects are aimed at using technology, developed understandings and services that are already in place and currently being utilised within industry/institutes/academe to deliver results in one (or more) area(s) but to now re-shape/re-frame these existing approaches for another purpose and/or user. GIFTSS Projects are not intended to support Research and Development activities within a contracting organisation. It is therefore expected that, as potential contractors review the requirements set out for this Project, they will see it more as a check-list of items that their existing functioning systems and processes can readily and easily deliver rather than as areas for investigation and development. This Project is also a “Test Project”, being a practical “Test” of a previously positive Feasibility Desk Study. It is not the development of a refined “shrink wrapped” solution that is expected to run autonomously or through immediate integration within existent user processes. The framing of the required Project, the time-frame and the requirement for value for money all reflect these objectives for BNSC GIFTSS.
The contractor’s focus must therefore be upon the re-tailoring of proven, readily available techniques and products to this “Proof of Concept” task, which can be further advanced within the Project through quantitative logical rigour that can withstand audit level assessment – so that any subsequent operational uptake downstream can successfully contribute to the delivery of statutory requirements against performance metrics.
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