Digitising and Remote Sensing Services

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Rural Payments Agency (RPA) is an executive agency of Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) that is responsible for annual payments of over £2 billion in direct aid and rural development to farmers, land managers and food producers in England.

Primary business activities this contract will deliver are around the provision of a flexible workforce and use of remote sensing techniques for: Controls, compliance and monitoring – Enforcing statutory environmental conditions and verifying subsidy scheme claims by remotely inspecting land through the use of computer aided photo interpretation (CAPI) and/ or machine learning techniques.

Land registration and digitising – Creation and maintenance of geospatial data products that are used as key controls or reference data against which subsidy scheme claims are cross-checked.

Land registration service is administered by the RPA and the data is used extensively by DEFRA and outside the subsidy arena.