Published date: 30 March 2023

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 31 January 2023, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Noise-measuring equipment - 38434300

  • Survey services - 79311000

Location of contract

Wales

Value of contract

£99,922.09

Procurement reference

CF-0058100D8d000003VQwdEAG

Published date

30 March 2023

Closing date

31 January 2023

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 February 2023

Contract end date

31 March 2025

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Single tender action (below threshold)

A direct contract with a single supplier, without competition.

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The Welsh Acoustic Marine Mammal Survey (WAMMS) project has been commissioned to build an understanding of acoustic measurements within a newly appoint protected area in order to understand the current impacts to marine life. Sites chosen for the deployment of equipment are in areas that currently do not have a significant amount of acoustic data tied to them. The study aims to develop a robust and effective method to measure underwater noise and cetacean acoustic activity in Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in Wales.

Cefas require the Supplier to deploy acoustic equipment at designated monitoring locations within a newly appointed protected area, the Supplier will deploy, service/maintain, and recover the equipment as well as collate raw data from the sites.

This pilot study will focus on the North Anglesey Marine Special Area of Conservation (SAC), designed for harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena). Workstream 1 will define a method for measuring underwater noise and cetacean distribution using Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) and test data collection over an 18-month period. Lessons learnt from this pilot will feed into workstream 2 which will develop an approach for the long-term monitoring of underwater noise and cetaceans across all relevant MPAs in Wales.

The Supplier will be expected to bring existing experience of collecting PAM data in this region, by 1) deployment and maintenance of instrumentation in the field and 2) data processing and analysis of cetacean vocalisations. This will include data downloads, storage, processing, species classification and descriptive statistics of findings that will be presented in a technical report.

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Award information

Awarded date

29 March 2023

Contract start date

1 February 2023

Contract end date

31 March 2025

Total value of contract

£99,922.09

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Bangor University

Address

Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DG

Reference

None

About the buyer

Contact name

Jade Peek

Address

Pakefield Road
Lowestoft
NR33 0HT
GB

Email

procure@cefas.co.uk