Contract

CEFAS25-24 Equipment Maintenance Agreement for WaveRiders

  • CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT, FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE SCIENCE

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Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-014849

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-04f709 (view related notices)

Published 14 April 2025, 10:33am



Scope

Reference

CEFAS25-24

Description

Provision of servicing and maintenance of WaveRiders for Cefas WaveNet Project, located in various regions around UK waters. The equipment requires regular maintenance and calibration services to retain full working conditions, and ensure Health and Safety, particularly due to the harsh environment of the equipment being at sea for prolonged periods of time. The equipment is essential for collecting data on a variety of monitoring metrics of the sea state


Contract 1. CEFAS25-24 Contract for Equipment Maintenance Agreement for WaveRiders

Supplier

Contract value

  • £250,000 excluding VAT
  • £300,000 including VAT

Above the relevant threshold

Date signed

2 April 2025

Contract dates

  • 3 April 2025 to 31 March 2028
  • 2 years, 11 months, 28 days

Main procurement category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 50800000 - Miscellaneous repair and maintenance services

Contract locations

  • UK - United Kingdom

Other information

Conflicts assessment prepared/revised

Yes


Procedure

Procedure type

Direct award

Direct award justification

Single supplier - technical reasons

The UK WaveNet monitoring program, is built on a fleet of DataWell (hardware equipment supplier) wave riders as the gold standard ultra-reliable monitoring device. As well as the required capital investment to replace this existing equipment, a change of platform would be prohibitively expensive and would also need approval from our customer (EA and UKCMF) in order to ensure Cefas was meeting it's contractual obligations. As such the continues use of the DWR Mk3 instruments is essential, and RS Aqua is the only UK representative for DataWell to provide the necessary calibration and maintenance and servicing requirements.


Supplier

R.S. AQUA LIMITED

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PRHV-4754-WDQX

C/O Tc Group The Granary, Hones Yard, 1 Waverley Lane

Farnham

GU9 8BB

United Kingdom

Region: UKJ25 - West Surrey

Small or medium-sized enterprise (SME): Yes

Voluntary, community or social enterprise (VCSE): No

Supported employment provider: No

Public service mutual: No

Contract 1. CEFAS25-24 Contract for Equipment Maintenance Agreement for WaveRiders


Contracting authority

CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT, FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE SCIENCE

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PPGW-5299-JGTN

Pakefield Road

Lowestoft

NR33 0HT

United Kingdom

Contact name: Holly Power

Email: procure@cefas.gov.uk

Website: https://defra-family.force.com/s/Welcome

Region: UKH14 - Suffolk

Organisation type: Public authority - sub-central government