Hire and Design of 2x Deepwater Moorings capable of measuring turbidity currents

Contract summary

Industry

• Unmanned underwater vehicles - 35512400

Location of contract

SO14 3ZH

Value of contract

£0 to £40,481

Procurement reference

UK SBS RE18184 Hire and Design of 2x Deepwater Moorings

Published date

30 April 2018

Closing date

25 March 2018

Contract start date

26 March 2018

Contract end date

26 March 2019

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Single tender action (below threshold)

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

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Description

We require the design and provision of 2 x deep-water moorings that are capable of making detailed measurements at 600 kHz of turbidity currents. This includes ADCP, housing within syntactic buoy, provision of battery packs, deep-water acoustic release links, hydro dynamically efficient mooring wire and assembly of the entire mooring. These must be capable of withstanding significant impacts by fast-moving flows (up to 10 m/s), maintaining stability (taught wire and level buoy), imaging their internal velocity and concentration structure at high temporal and depth-resolution, and to be retrieved at the end of the field deployment. The supplier must be familiar with the monitoring of turbidity currents, design of moorings to withstand such conditions, the operations of the Canadian Geological Survey vessel that we are using (RV Vector) and be able to provide this equipment at short notice to the mobilisation port of Sidney in Victoria.

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Award information

Awarded date

25 March 2018

Contract start date

26 March 2018

Contract end date

26 March 2019

Total value of contract

£40,481

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

ASL Environmental Sciences Inc

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About the buyer

Contact name

Rosie Clarke

Address

North Star House
SWINDON
SN21FF
England

Email

researchtenders@uksbs.co.uk

Website

https://www.uksbs.co.uk/pages/default.aspx