By Ken Lewis, Sourced From
With reporting deadlines looming for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Ministry for the Environment needs to design, develop and implement a calculation and reporting application for land use and carbon analysis.
The principal adviser to government on environmental matters, the Ministry for the Environment has released an RFP seeking a supplier to work on its Land Use and Carbon Analysis System (LUCAS) programme team to develop a Calculation and Reporting Application.
The ministry is responsible for preparing reports that New Zealand must present to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change for greenhouse gas inventories and for Kyoto Protocol commitments. To achieve this, the ministry is engaged in a data collection, analysis and development work.
There are three main components to LUCAS:
* Gateway: An Inter-pine Forestry Limited built and managed database that enables storage, versioning and validation of LUCAS forest and soil data. It includes various interfaces for reporting, connection and issues logging.
* Calculation and Reporting Application: This application will determine carbon and non-carbon stock and change. Combined with land use change, this is the basis for Kyoto and Inventory reporting to the UNFCCC.
* Geospatial: The geospatial system is the spatial component of LUCAS. Data and applications are currently supported by Explorer Graphics Limited with hardware housed at Datacom’s hosting centre in Wellington.
It is intended that any future application will enable users to import carbon and non-carbon data from the Gateway to determine emissions and removals in New Zealand forests, croplands, grasslands and other land types. This, combined with land area data sourced from the Geodatabase, will enable New Zealand to meet its reporting requirements under the Kyoto Protocol.
The ministry says it needs to have the solution accepted and in production by June 30, 2009 and vendor responses to the RFP should outline plans to achieve this.
A briefing for interested parties will be held at 12.30pm, Tuesday November 18.
The deadline for proposals consisting of four hard copies (one unbound) and an email copy (Word or PDF) is due at 1pm November 28, 2008.
Vendor presentations will be held on December 15, with the preferred supplier chosen by January 16, 2009.
The ministry’s contact person for the RFP is Nichole Wilkie, email: [email protected]
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