Awarded contract

Replacement Rigid Inflatable Boats

Details

Buyer: Scottish Government
Supplier(s): Northern Marine Power
Value: £790,148.16
Topic: Marine patrol vessels
Published: 7 April 2025
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

The Scottish Government, through Marine Directorate, invites tenders for a contract for the two new Rigid Inflatable Boats (RIBs) as part of Marine Directorate’s commitment to meeting health and safety requirements. Lot 1: The contract seeks to deliver two replacement boarding boats launch / recoverable from its Marine Protection Vessel, Jura, an 84m offshore marine patrol vessel of 2182 gross tonnes. The replacement boats must comply with the operational and performance requirements below as well as being fully certified as a ‘Rescue Boat’ as defined by SOLAS, and additionally as a Category 3 Workboat (if a Liferaft is onboard).

Timeline

Completed: Award date9 July 2024
Completed: Award published7 April 2025
Current notice

About the buyer

The Scottish Government is a devolved central government department that buys through its Scottish Procurement and Property Directorate. Regulated procurements across the Scottish public sector are advertised on Public Contracts Scotland, the national portal set up in 2008. Bids are usually submitted through PCS-Tender, the national eTendering system it funds. The directorate also runs frameworks covering construction, corporate services, ICT, professional services, utilities and HR. Many of these frameworks are open to the wider Scottish public sector as well as central government. The Supplier Development Programme offers free tender training to SMEs and third sector organisations.

Procurement spend from central entities makes up 66% of overall UK public spend.

Over the past 5 years, most of the Scottish Government's contract awards have been in business services, IT services and research and development.

Relevant CPV codes

34511100 · Marine patrol vessels
34930000 · Marine equipment

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

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Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@scottish-government.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@scottish-government.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@scottish-government.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@scottish-government.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@scottish-government.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@scottish-government.gov