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UKRI-5191 Port Services Harwich (Interim Provision)

  • UK Research & Innovation (UKRI)

UK5: Transparency notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-050956

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-058d0c (view related notices)

Published 22 August 2025, 3:20pm



Scope

Reference

C0336

Description

This is a Contract for Port services/Agent/Chandler services for the RRS Sir David Attenborough for the October. In addition we require the support for a charter ship in Harwich in November.


Contract 1. UKRI-5191 Port Services Harwich (Interim Provision)

Supplier

Contract value

  • £300,590 excluding VAT
  • £360,708 including VAT

Above the relevant threshold

Earliest date the contract will be signed

29 August 2025

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 1 September 2025 to 31 December 2025
  • 4 months

Main procurement category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 63721000 - Port and waterway operation services and associated services

Contract locations

  • UKH3 - Essex

Participation

Particular suitability

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)


Other information

Conflicts assessment prepared/revised

Yes


Procedure

Procedure type

Direct award

Direct award justification

Extreme and unavoidable urgency

Schedule 5, Paragraph 13 and Paragraph 14 of the Procurement Act 2023, the public contract concerns goods strictly necessary for reasons of extreme and unavoidable urgency, applies to the award of this contract.


Supplier

Clarkson Port Services Limited

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PZZY-7524-XWCL

2nd Floor Crown House, Crown Street,

Ipswich

IP1 3HS

United Kingdom

Region: UKH14 - Suffolk

Small or medium-sized enterprise (SME): No

Voluntary, community or social enterprise (VCSE): No

Contract 1. UKRI-5191 Port Services Harwich (Interim Provision)


Contracting authority

UK Research & Innovation (UKRI)

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PDQJ-7126-JDHG

Polaris House

Swindon, Wiltshire

SN2 1FL

United Kingdom

Contact name: Kate Richardson

Email: nercprocurement@ukri.org

Website: https://www.ukri.org/

Region: UKK14 - Swindon

Organisation type: Public authority - central government