Information Needs of A Celtic Seas Web Portal

UK Shared Business Services eSourcing As part of the strategic alliance between UK Shared Business Services Ltd (UK SBS) and Crown Commercial Service (CCS), UK SBS can use the CCS eSourcing Suite for future procurements. If you have not yet registered on the eSourcing Suite, this can be done online at https://gpsesourcing.cabinetoffice.gov.uk by following the link ‘Register for CCS eSourcing’.

Please note that, to register, you must have a valid DUNS number (as provided by Dun and Bradstreet) for the organisation which you are registering, who will be entering into a contract if invited to do so. Once you have registered on the eSourcing Suite, a registered user can express an interest for a specific procurement.

Crown Commercial Service will process the email and then enable the Bidder to access the procurement online via the e-Sourcing Suite. The registered user will receive a notification email to alert them once this has been done.

The Sourcing documents can then be accessed on the eSourcing Suite at: https://gpsesourcing.cabinetoffice.gov.uk using the instructions detailed in the Specification documents within Contracts Finder. As a user of the e-Sourcing Suite you will have access to Emptoris email messaging service which facilitates all messages sent to you and from you in relation to any specific RFX event.

Please note it is your responsibility to access these emails on a regular basis to ensure you have sight of all relevant information. For technical assistance on use of the e-Sourcing Suite please contact Crown Commercial Service Helpdesk : Telephone: 0345 010 3503 Training documents to support Bidders utilise Emptoris CCS eSourcing are available in the Contracts Finder Tender documents section.

The Celtic Seas Partnership are developing a web portal as a resource for sea-users and interest groups, governments and scientists who want to know what information and data are available in relation to the MSFD descriptors in the Celtic Seas and how this can be used to deliver measures to achieve the Directive’s goal of ‘Good Environmental Status'. The web portal build is being led by the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) as part of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) who is a partner in the Celtic Seas Partnership.

Part of the web portal will be a series of webpages allowing the user to explore the metadata on datasets relevant to each of the 11 MSFD Descriptors for the Celtic Seas. In addition to dataset metadata we wish to provide other information relevant to marine stakeholders to support management activities or Measures to achieve Good Environmental Status.