Scope
Title
Marine Monitoring Vessels Service - Market Sounding Exercise
Reference
P-31453
Description
The current contract includes, the operation, management and provision of five bespoke built survey vessels including crew, covering a designated geographic area. This includes provision of a qualified skipper within the Southwest, an additional sixth geographic area, to work on our smaller coded vessels owned by the Agency.
We currently are seeking potential organisations to complete a market sounding questionnaire to determine the interest in organisations or consortia to undertake the future marine vessels monitoring service. This can be provided by emailing rachael.burton@defra.gov.uk requesting a copy.
The aims of this document is to;
• give further information to interested consortia/organisations about the project
• help the Agency determine if there is sufficient potential interest in bidding for the contract.
• understand the capabilities of organisations who may be interested in undertaking this role
• give consortia/partners the opportunity to be part of the future marine monitoring programme.
Contract type
Services
Main category (CPV code)
- 98360000 - Marine services
Additional categories (CPV codes)
- 71354500 - Marine survey services
Contract location
- UK - United Kingdom
Contract start date (estimated)
1 May 2025
Contract end date (estimated)
30 April 2029
Maximum value (estimated, excluding VAT)
£15,000,000
Renewal
No
OptionsThe right to additional purchases while the contract is valid.
No
Contract is suitable for
- Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)
Contract is not suitable for
- Voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSE)
Buyer
Defra Group Commercial
DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT FOOD & RURAL AFFAIRS
Nobel House,17 Smith Square
London
SW1P 3JR
United Kingdom
Website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs
Not on any register
NUTS code: UKI32 - Westminster
Contact name: Rachael Burton
Email: rachael.burton@defra.gov.uk
Telephone: 03459335577
Procedure
Procurement start date (estimated)When the contract notice or equivalent will be published.
1 June 2023
Commercial approachWhether the procurement is for a new requirement or a reprocurement.
New requirement