Published date: 11 July 2019

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 2 August 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Environmental services - 90700000

  • Marine services - 98360000

Location of contract

Scotland

Value of contract

£35,000

Procurement reference

C19-0256-1363

Published date

11 July 2019

Closing date

2 August 2019

Contract start date

23 September 2019

Contract end date

20 December 2019

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Project Background
JNCC and Marine Scotland Science (MSS) will undertake an offshore seabed survey to the West Shetland Shelf MPA (WSS hereafter) onboard the Marine Research Vessel (MRV) Scotia (survey code 1219S).
The 1219S survey will depart from Aberdeen on 26 August 2019 and returned to Aberdeen on 11 September 2019.
WSS lies in offshore waters to the north of Scotland. For more information regarding WSS please see http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-6491.
Sampling at WSS will be focussed on the designated Offshore Subtidal Sands and Gravels feature. Samples will be collected from nested boxes within the WSS site boundary, from water depths of 70 to 150 m (Figure 1).
Sampling will be conducted using a 0.1 m2 Hamon Grab.
300 ml Particle Size (PS) sediment sub-samples will be extracted from each sample and frozen with the remaining sample sieved using a 1 mm mesh diameter sieve.
All material retained after sieving will be transferred to an appropriately sized plastic sample container and preserved in 5% formaldehyde solution buffered with borax.
For more information regarding the survey design and methodology, please contact JNCC.
Please note the following documents will be supplied to the successful contractor:
• Survey programme
• Associated metadata
• Draft Cruise Report
• MEDIN compliant MS Excel proforma spreadsheets

More information

Attachments

Additional text

You are invited by JNCC Support Co (JNCC) to submit a tender for the supply of works or services required under the above project. If interested, you should download and carefully read the documents contained within the zip file or by following the link.

About the buyer

Contact name

Dora Iantosca

Address

Monkstone House,City Road
PETERBOROUGH
PE11JY
England

Telephone

01733 866894

Email

dora.iantosca@jncc.gov.uk

Website

jncc.defra.gov.uk