AwardedAwarded 7 August 2025
CivTech Challenge 10.3 - How can technology help improve the monitoring and protection of seabirds in various environments, focussing initially on the challenge of monitoring puffins above and below ground?
Scottish Natural Heritage · National agency
In brief
Scottish Natural Heritage awarded IT and software and environmental work to Arctech Innovation and EOLAS Insight Ltd on 7 August 2025.
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What the notice says
You would think that with a bird as iconic as the puffin, we would know how many of them we have in the UK and how successful a breeding colony is in any year. Yet, of all the seabirds we are internationally responsible for, the puffin is one of the hardest to count because they breed in burrows underground. Traditional methods are either extremely labour intensive, with specialised fieldworkers required for counts, or can only give us an indication of how many puffins there are on land or on sea. It is also hard to tell how successfully they are managing to breed.
Who won
| Winner | Value | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Arctech Innovation EOLAS Insight Ltd (SME) 9 bids received | £1,021,058 |
Values as the award notice gives them, excluding VAT where stated.
Timeline
- Contract award notice · notice 008818-2026
About the buyer
Scottish Natural HeritageLast 12 months
Procurements
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From notice 008818-2026 on Find a Tender, first published 2 February 2026. We last checked for changes on 28 September 2026.