Contract award record
Defra Digital Data Set Licence Agreement - BGS
Notice details
- Published
- Category
- services
- Buyer region
- South West
- Source
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Public buyer and contract winner
Award value£109,000
- AwardedCompleted
- StartCompleted
- EndCompleted
Work description
By way of a Letter of Agreement (LoA), the Environment Agency (EA) currently holds a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-assignable agreement with Defra, which enables them to be able to use (by way of a licence agreement) the British Geological Survey (BGS) datasets (digital data). This includes (but is not limited to) data such as:- - DigMap-GB 50 onshore geology map data at 1:50 000 scale for Great Britain - Dig Map-GB 250 onshore geology map data at 1:250 000 scale for Great Britain - DigSBS-250 offshore seabed sediment data at 1:250 000 scale (full database) - Active Mines and Quarries (full dataset). GBASE surface & dub-surface soil data for England - DiGROCK-250 offshore bedrock data at 1:250 000 seal for England 224.715sqkm area - Superficial Thickness at 1:50 000 scale for England & Wales 155.000sqkm area The EA use these datasets for internal use in connection with / fulfilment of their standard operational activities.