Section one: Contracting authority
one.1) Name and addresses
Sefton Council
1st Floor Magdalen House, Trinity Road
Bootle
L20 3NJ
Contact
Mr Stuart Bate
Telephone
+44 1519344288
Fax
+44 1519344579
Country
United Kingdom
Region code
UKD - North West (England)
Internet address(es)
Main address
Buyer's address
one.1) Name and addresses
Wirral Council
Birkenhead
Country
United Kingdom
Region code
UKD - North West (England)
Internet address(es)
Main address
one.1) Name and addresses
West Lancashire Borough Council
Ormskirk
Country
United Kingdom
Region code
UK - United Kingdom
Internet address(es)
Main address
one.1) Name and addresses
Fylde Council
Lytham St Annes
Country
United Kingdom
Region code
UK - United Kingdom
Internet address(es)
Main address
one.1) Name and addresses
Blackpool Council
Blackpool
customer.first@blackpool.gov.uk
Country
United Kingdom
Region code
UK - United Kingdom
Internet address(es)
Main address
one.1) Name and addresses
Wyre Council
Poulton le Fylde
Country
United Kingdom
Region code
UK - United Kingdom
Internet address(es)
Main address
one.1) Name and addresses
Lancaster City Council
Lancaster
customerservices@lancaster.gov.uk
Country
United Kingdom
Region code
UK - United Kingdom
Internet address(es)
Main address
one.1) Name and addresses
South Lakeland District Council
Kendal
customer.services@southlakeland.gov.uk
Country
United Kingdom
Region code
UK - United Kingdom
Internet address(es)
Main address
one.1) Name and addresses
Barrow Borough Council
Barrow in Furness
customerservices@barrowbc.gov.uk
Country
United Kingdom
Region code
UK - United Kingdom
Internet address(es)
Main address
one.1) Name and addresses
Copeland Borough Council
Millom
Country
United Kingdom
Region code
UK - United Kingdom
Internet address(es)
Main address
one.1) Name and addresses
Allerdale Borough Council
Workington
Country
United Kingdom
Region code
UK - United Kingdom
Internet address(es)
Main address
one.2) Information about joint procurement
The contract involves joint procurement
one.4) Type of the contracting authority
Regional or local authority
one.5) Main activity
General public services
Section two: Object
two.1) Scope of the procurement
two.1.1) Title
Land Based, Coastal Remote Sensing Services Framework
Reference number
DN699518
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 71600000 - Technical testing, analysis and consultancy services
two.1.3) Type of contract
Services
two.1.4) Short description
Sefton Council are seeking to establish a Single Provider Framework Agreement, for the operation of a land based coastal remote sensing system to provide near continuous monitoring of the near shore and intertidal for a variety of coastal process and response criteria. This will include wave and currents, and beach and subtidal topography.
Packages of work will be called off as and when required by the Authority (or Authorities named below and able to use the Framework Agreement).
There is no guarantee of work for the successful contractor, the allocation of work will be based on the Individual Authority’s or Groups of Authorities’ requirements and subject to available funding.
1st March 2024 to 28th Feb 2026 ,with the option to extend for 2 x 12 month periods.
two.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots: No
two.1.7) Total value of the procurement (excluding VAT)
Lowest offer: £4,000,000 / Highest offer: £8,000,000 taken into consideration
two.2) Description
two.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS codes
- UKD - North West (England)
two.2.4) Description of the procurement
Sefton Council are seeking to establish a Single Provider Framework Agreement, for the operation of a land based coastal remote sensing system to provide near continuous monitoring of the near shore and intertidal for a variety of coastal process and response criteria. This will include wave and currents, and beach and subtidal topography.
Packages of work will be called off as and when required by the Authority (or Authorities named below and able to use the Framework Agreement).
There is no guarantee of work for the successful contractor, the allocation of work will be based on the Individual Authority’s or Groups of Authorities’ requirements and subject to available funding.
Sefton Council are the contracting Authority, contracting on behalf of the Authorities below:
Wirral Council
West Lancashire Borough Council
Fylde Council
Blackpool Council
Wyre Council
Lancaster City Council
South Lakeland District Council
Barrow Borough Council
Copeland Borough Council
Allerdale Borough Council
Some of the Authorities may call off services themselves or Sefton Council will call off services on their behalf.
2.1.2 The Authorities/Organisations below may decide to use the Framework to call off services directly:
Conwy County Borough Council
Denbighshire County Council
Flintshire County Council
Scarborough Borough Council
East Riding of Yorkshire Council
New Forest District Council
Teignbridge District Council
Vale of Glamorgan Council
The Environment Agency
2.2 Background
Sefton Council, as lead authority for the Northwest Strategic Regional Coastal Monitoring Programme (NWSRCMP), acting on behalf of the Northwest and North Wales Coastal Group (NWNWCG), collects coastal process and coastline response information to support the delivery of the Shoreline Management Plan and sustainable coastal management decisions. It achieves this by undertaking and commissioning a range of surveys to collect the appropriate datasets.
The NWSRCMP is part of a National Network of Strategic Regional Coastal Monitoring Programmes seeking to ensure consistency across England and Wales. The NWSRCMP recognises the need to collect data safely, effectively, and efficiently and it regularly reviews the data collection methods and techniques
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to achieve this. The programme operates on a 6yr funding cycle and has funding in place until 2027, with bids being prepared for a continuation of the programme.
The NWNWCG aspires to improve its understanding and knowledge of nearshore coastal dynamics to better inform operational and strategic flood and coastal erosion risk management (FCERM) decisions through the data and information collected by the NWSRCMP.
One of the gaps in our understanding of nearshore coastal processes is temporally frequent data, allowing us to understand changes occurring over short time spans. Beach profile surveys are normally collected every six months, lidar surveys every two years, and vertical photography once every five/six years. Whilst these provide us with some seasonal and long-term trends, they do not provide us with information on shorter-duration events.
In 2017, the NWSRCMP trialled a land based remote sensing system that uses x-band radar to derive topographic, bathymetric, and hydrodynamic (wave & current) data in intertidal and shallow coastal waters. This trial was successful and was followed by the deployment of four systems by the NWSRCMP and two by Wyre Borough Council. The NWSRCMP also purchased a mobile unit. The current active deployments are shown in fig 1.
two.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion - Name: Quality / Weighting: 50
Quality criterion - Name: Social Value / Weighting: 10
Price - Weighting: 40
two.2.11) Information about options
Options: Yes
Description of options
2 extension options of 12 months available after 19 and 31 months
two.2.13) Information about European Union Funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: No
Section four. Procedure
four.1) Description
four.1.1) Type of procedure
Open procedure
four.1.3) Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system
The procurement involves the establishment of a framework agreement
four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Yes
four.2) Administrative information
four.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure
Notice number: 2023/S 000-035440
Section five. Award of contract
A contract/lot is awarded: Yes
five.2) Award of contract
five.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
19 January 2024
five.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 1
Number of tenders received from SMEs: 1
Number of tenders received from tenderers from other EU Member States: 0
Number of tenders received from tenderers from non-EU Member States: 0
Number of tenders received by electronic means: 1
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: No
five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
CoastSense Ltd
Liverpool
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
- UKD - North West (England)
The contractor is an SME
Yes
five.2.4) Information on value of contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Lowest offer: £4,000,000 / Highest offer: £8,000,000 taken into consideration
Section six. Complementary information
six.4) Procedures for review
six.4.1) Review body
Sefton Council
Bootle
Country
United Kingdom