Awarded contract

Award of 0425H - Charter for Acoustics Telemetry Mooring Recovery

Details

Value
£5,377.7
Topic
Ship chartering services
Published
20 August 2025

Tender description

The Scottish Ministers invite tenders to provide vessel charter services for the retrieval of scientific equipment in Scottish waters. The Scottish Government Marine Directorate - Science, Evidence, Digital and Data (MD-SEDD) (formerly Marine Scotland Science) portfolio are seeking tenders from work boats to undertake recovery of acoustic monitoring equipment.The tender will be for one mooring servicing trip on 12 August 2025. The work will involve retrieving underwater acoustic telemetry moorings equipment within the Inner Moray Firth.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award published20 August 2025
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Award date8 November 2025

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

  • 63726400 · Ship chartering services

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