Stale Pre-tender

UK Mission Control Centre and Antenna Service Cospas-Sarsat System Support

Details

Buyer: Maritime and Coastguard Agency
Value: £4,200,000
Topic: Systems support services
Published: 8 May 2025
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

The UK is a signatory to the international Cospas-Sarsat programme and provides a full ground segment and Mission Control Centre (MCC) capability through His Majesty’s Coastguard (HMCG), monitoring for, processing and acting upon alerts received via satellites (Low Earth Orbit, Medium Earth Orbit and Geostationary ) in orbit around the earth to trigger distress and/or safety response activity.

Timeline

Completed: Pre-tender published8 May 2025
Current notice

About the buyer

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency is an executive agency of the Department for Transport, and buys as a central government agency for maritime and coastal search and rescue. Crown Commercial Service frameworks are used where they fit the agency's needs. Specialist maritime technical and scientific services are sourced through dedicated frameworks instead. The Procurement Team sits within Commercial and Programmes at the agency's Southampton headquarters.

Over the past 5 years, most of Maritime and Coastguard Agency's contract awards have been in business services, IT services and software and information systems.

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

Job title	Phone number	Work email
Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@maritime-and-coastguard-agency.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@maritime-and-coastguard-agency.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@maritime-and-coastguard-agency.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@maritime-and-coastguard-agency.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@maritime-and-coastguard-agency.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@maritime-and-coastguard-agency.gov