Budget things:

[neil-ices-dk]

OSPAR have committed on the 2022 workplan:

• 11 333 Euros (20 days of Cat A2 staff - which is a mean value based on a range of hourly rates encompassing neil, colin, hans type resource)
• we did not include the lower category rating, which would include staff with R skills as this is not a simple 'clean build' task and takes a degree of interpretation, existing knowledge and know-how, which makes for a challenging task

HELCOM estimate they have:

• 23 000 Euros

AMAP estimate they have:

• 20 000 Euros

[owenrowe]

Just to check my maths and be sure I am on right track here - so am I right to say 1 day is circa 576 E? So overall its circa AMAP + HELCOM circa 70 days (I need to verify budget, 20-23,000 off top of head) and 17 days left in OSPAR pot (?) - so with existing budget estimate we are talking 85-90 ish days? Which seems we are close to matching now. Next question is then can ICES do all of it (i.e. every component in the list) and in what time frame (2022? before August, end of year, longer)? I guess it needs discussion still, also to assess added value of an external set of eyes in process too, plus any overlaps we identified between components in list and also the Baltic Data Flows days in A5 and how they can be used here - but thanks for initial budget estimate here I think it helps a lot (do confirm if my counting is all out!). If we save from this 20-23,000 pot based on BDF days then I am sure we have ideas for other add ons and such too before long :).

[neil-ices-dk]

Next question is then can ICES do all of it (i.e. every component in the list) and in what time frame (2022? before August, end of year, longer)?

Within 2022 - no ICES cannot allocate this amount of time from current resources; so it depends on how much of this needs to be achieved in the current year - and that is partly budget constrained (at least on the AMAP side) but also what you need in place to support assessments etc.

My gut feeling is we can allocate about 30 days in ICES from this in total in 2022; exactly when i cannot say off the top of my head and would need to clarify that.