Stale Pre-tender

Supply and Support of Electronic Chart data for Border Force Cutters

Details

Buyer: Home Office
Value: £120,000
Topic: Marine patrol vessels
Published: 9 January 2025
Source: uk:contracts_finder

Tender description

Border Force is a law enforcement arm of the Home Office and operates a fleet of five sea going Cutters operating in both UK National and International waters under the Maritime Coastguard Agency (MCA) Load Line Regulations. Provision of Electronic Navigational Charts (ENC) & Port Data is required to support safe navigation both within and outside the territorial waters of the UK, including to other EC countries, the Channel Isles and the Isle of Man. The Cutters currently operate a suite of Simrad Argus NSTR and Simrad PLECDIS. The requirement will include all supporting software, licences, software updates, access codes, encryption codes and encryption keys as applicable.

Timeline

Completed: Pre-tender published9 January 2025
Current notice

About the buyer

Home Office is a central ministerial department, and it buys through its own commercial and procurement function. Border Force, UK Visas and Immigration and HM Passport Office sit within the department. Security-sector contracts run through the Joint Security and Resilience Centre, a dedicated procurement route for that work.

Over the past 5 years, most of Home Office's contract awards have been in IT services, business 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 •••• ••••••	••••••••@home-office.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@home-office.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@home-office.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@home-office.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@home-office.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@home-office.gov