Published date: 24 January 2025

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


Closing: 22 January 2025, 12am

Contract summary

Industry

  • Offshore drilling services - 76320000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£25,578,242.22

Procurement reference

BIP905902719

Published date

24 January 2025

Closing date

22 January 2025

Closing time

12am

Contract start date

26 January 2025

Contract end date

31 August 2025

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The British Geological Survey (BGS), acting on behalf of the European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD), requires a marine coring capability and suitable vessel to operate offshore New England, USA, for a scientific drilling, coring and groundwater sampling campaign for a period of between 60 - 90 days (estimated) between May and August 2025. This scientific coring project seeks to extend our understanding of the current and past states of fluid composition, pressure, and temperature in continental shelf environments. In many coastal settings worldwide, the distribution of freshwater within continental shelf sediments is far out of equilibrium with modern sea level. One of the most remarkable examples is found on the Atlantic continental shelf off New England where groundwater within shallow Pliocene-Pleistocene sand aquifers over 100 km offshore has low salinity (3000 mg/l or less). This project will test several hypotheses to help constrain rates, directions, and mechanisms of groundwater flow and chemical fluxes in continental shelf systems.

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Award information

Awarded date

22 January 2025

Contract start date

26 January 2025

Contract end date

31 August 2025

Total value of contract

£25,578,242.22

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Matrix Offshore Services, LLC

Address

1661 Old Belfast Road
Lewisburg, TN
37091

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

Yes

About the buyer

Address

Polaris House
North Star Avenue
Swindon
SN2 1FL
UK

Telephone

+447562167366

Email

NERCProcurement@ukri.org