Planning

Maintenance works to be completed on Border Force Training Yacht

  • Home Office

UK3: Planned procurement notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-049916

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-058aba

Published 19 August 2025, 3:59pm



Scope

Description

This is notice of a planned procurement opportunity for maintenance works to be completed by March 2026 on a Border Force Static Training Vessel (former yacht) berthed in Ramsgate.

The Opportunity to bid for this competition will be from September 2025 and is expected to include requirements to:

• Transportation - Collect the yacht from its berth in Ramsgate Harbour and move it to where the works are to be completed (this is unlikely to be in Ramsgate itself)

• Inspect, Prepare and Clean the yacht

• Paint the yacht hull below the waterline with primer and anti-fouling paint

• Supply and fit new Zinc Anodes

• Return the yacht back to its berth in Ramsgate Harbour

The full requirement will be provided at Tender stage when full needs for the vessel are known.

Please note, the tender opportunity will be issued via the Home Office eSourcing Portal and bidders must therefore ensure they have registered:

https://homeoffice.app.jaggaer.com/

Total value (estimated)

  • £35,000 excluding VAT
  • £42,000 including VAT

Below the relevant threshold

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 1 November 2025 to 31 March 2026
  • 5 months

Main procurement category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 50241100 - Vessel repair services
  • 34500000 - Ships and boats
  • 34520000 - Boats

Contract locations

  • UK - United Kingdom

Submission

Publication date of tender notice (estimated)

22 September 2025

Tender submission deadline

6 October 2025, 11:59pm


Procedure

Procedure type

Below threshold - open competition


Contracting authority

Home Office

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PWGC-6513-PQLZ

2 Marsham Street

London

SW1P 4DF

United Kingdom

Region: UKI32 - Westminster

Organisation type: Public authority - central government