Closed tender

Third Party Chart Production Support 2026

Details

Value
£8,055,000
Topic
Miscellaneous water transport support services
Published
29 October 2025
Submission
7 January 2026

Tender description

The UK Hydrographic Office ("Authority"), based in Taunton, Somerset, requires support for its Operational requirements for an initial 36 months term, with 1 optional 12 month extension, as follows: 1.Gridding and Data Improvement - to carry out data improvement tasks within the Hydrographic Database to enable gridding of our data packages and generation of new gridded ENC cells. 2.Compilation and Support - to carry out the full range of these cartographic compilation tasks 3.Repromat Processing - to manage the conversion of Foreign Government Hydrographic Office (FGHO) charts that are being adopted into the UKHOs digital and paper chart series. 4.CUIA - to create Notice to Mariners, Blocks, Tracings, chart base updates and maintain their associated audit trails. 5.HDT and DCPT Support - to update and maintain the Hydrographic Data Base for work specified by the Hydrographic Data Team.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Tender published29 October 2025
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Submission date7 January 2026

About the buyer

UK Hydrographic Office is an executive agency of the Ministry of Defence in Taunton, and buys as a central government agency. Much of this procurement flows through cross-government framework agreements led by the Government Commercial Agency and the Ministry of Defence. UKHO also runs its own framework agreements where no government framework exists. Every purchase is let as a competitive contract, with one-off requirements tendered separately where no suitable framework exists.

Over the past 5 years, most of UK Hydrographic Office's contract awards have been in IT services, business services and software and information systems.

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