Contract award · 7 Aug 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 awarded “CivTech Challenge 10.3 - How can technology help improve the…” to Arctech Innovation, EOLAS Insight Ltd for £1.02m.

Telecoms equipmentScotland

Value £1.02m

Open competition

Open procedure: the contract was advertised and any supplier could submit a bid.

Key facts

Buyer
Scottish Natural Heritage · National or federal agency/office
Value
£1,021,057.69
Procedure
Open procedure
Sector
Telecoms equipment · Data-transmission equipment (CPV 32260000)
Region
Scotland
Timeline
  1. Contract date7 Aug 2025
  2. Published2 Feb 2026Published 179 days after the contract date

Description

CivTech’s mission is to drive daring and innovation in the public sector by collaboratively solving Challenges that make people’s lives better – and in doing so create generations of sustainable, high growth businesses. CivTech brings together public sector expertise and private sector innovation to solve real problems, develop new products, and deliver better, faster and easier services for everyone. Central to the approach is co-production with the citizen. Part of the Scottish Government’s Digital Directorate, CivTech’s approach is helping transform public sector engagement with tech and innovation, delivering significant benefits to public services, producing genuine uplifts for the Scottish economy - and along the way, making lives better. Across the country there are problems public sector organisations would like to solve and in the current environment the need for smart, efficient and effective products has never been greater. The Scottish Government is aware innovation is a g…

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