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Wave Hub Development Services Ltd are leading a project part funded by ERDF called the Cornwall Floating Offshore Wind (FLOW) Accelerator which is part of a package of initiatives designed to ensure that the region drives forward, and benefits from, the opportunity that FLOW will bring to the region. As part of this project, WHDS intend to procure a minimum of 12 months worth of wind resource data from the Celtic Sea. This procurement represents a significant portion of the overall budget and therefore needs to be executed correctly, compliantly and with full regard for value for money. We therefore have identified a need for legal support through the ITT development, procurement process and deployment phases. The cost of the data acquisition campaign will be significant. Therefore, WHDS wish to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced legal services contractor who can support a procurement process which meets National and European legislation & regulations. For further information, and details of how to respond to this opportunity, please download the Invitation To Tender attached to this notice.

Scope of Work The data held are intended to be used throughout the whole development lifecycle, with a strong focus on the planning phases; resource assessment, early feasibility assessments, consenting, bid preparations and so on. Whilst the developers will be the main early users and contributors of data, many other stakeholders such as the Crown Estate, academic researchers, regional industrial groups and related consultancies, media and the general public are all expected to need to access the data for different purposes. Therefore, CSP have decided to tender for the construction of a Data Portal. This section of the document outlines the requirements of the Portal. 2.1 Definitions -Archive High-durability storage for difficult to replace data. -Celtic Sea Area of sea between the South-West of England, South Wales and East Ireland -CSP Celtic Sea Power -CSV Comma-Separated Values - A text format for numerical tables. In this document it is includes files with various field delimiters, such as semi-colons or other single characters. -Data Entry An item consisting of a file or collection of files that has data of a particular type relating to a specific place and time. Information Classification: CONTROLLED -Developer Floating Offshore Wind Farm Developer - a company intending to develop a floating offshore wind farm in the Celtic Sea. -FLOW Floating Offshore Wind (Data) Portal The system being specified by this document to hold, visualize and otherwise make accessible various data about the -Celtic Sea. Ingested Data Data as originally supplied to the system. Researcher An academic researcher into the assessment, construction, development, operation and decommissioning of floating offshore wind farms. -Shapefile Sometimes known as ESRI Shapefile after the company that originated the format. A format for Geographically-linked, or pure geographic data. It consists in a collection of files with the same filename within the same directory. -Supplier The company selected to develop and maintain the Portal. Users Users of the Portal. -Wind Rose A commonly used graphical display for summarizing wind data at a fixed point in space, over time.

Wave Hub Development Services Ltd, trading as Celtic Sea Power (CSP) are a 100% subsidiary of Cornwall Council. As part of an ERDF-funded project, we require suitably competent service providers to deliver Digital Aerial Surveys (DAS) to support bird and marine mammal density and distribution modelling in the UK Celtic Sea area. The activity will support strategic considerations for Floating Offshore Wind (FLOW) in the Celtic Sea. A brief general project description is provided below: The Cornwall FLOW Accelerator (CFA) project is a collaborative project including Wave Hub Development Services Development Ltd (WHDS project lead), University of Exeter (UoE), University of Plymouth (UoP) and the Offshore Renewable Catapult (OREC). It aims to develop tools, knowledge and data which accelerate the Celtic Sea FLOW opportunity and lay significant groundwork with respect to developing pipeline at both a FLOW project and supply chain level. The project is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) Celtic Sea Power (CSP) has worked with Natural England, Natural Resources Wales, the JNCC and the RSPB to determine a suitable survey methodology for the proposed DAS that can feed into a regional characterization approach for the area. CSP also have an ambition to combine data and evidence from this proposed survey with other relevant data sets from the remaining Celtic Sea area. This will maximize spatial and temporal data coverage for relevant species that can feed into both Regional and National density and distribution modelling activities. This will also enable a more strategic view to be taken of the key potential species interactions in the area, geographically relevant potential development risks and the pre-empting of additional data and evidence that may be required in the future to support the assessment of FLOW. Download the attached ITT for full instructions on how to apply.