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Aberdeen Geothermal Feasibility Project - University of Aberdeen

Details

Topic
Drilling services
Published
19 December 2025
Submission
19 January 2026

Tender description

This Invitation to Tender (ITT) invites qualified contractors to provide services for the technical project management, drilling, logging, fibre‑optic instrumentation, and optional testing of a geothermal research borehole (>500-1000 m) at the University of Aberdeen campus as part of the Aberdeen Geothermal Feasibility Pilot (AGFP). The aim of this project is to safely drill and complete a deep borehole on the University of Aberdeen campus to a minimum depth of 500 m, and to extend as deep as safely achievable within site and budget constraints, with the option of a second shallow monitoring well. The borehole(s) will provide a long-term research platform for geothermal, geological, petrophysical, hydrological, and geophysical investigations. The deep borehole will be equipped with a Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) and Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) systems and a mechanism for groundwater sampling, flow and recharge testing, allowing long-term monitoring and characterisation of subsurface thermal, geophysical and hydrological behaviour. Lot 1: This Invitation to Tender (ITT) invites qualified contractors to provide services for the technical project management, drilling, logging, fibre‑optic instrumentation, and optional testing of a geothermal research borehole (>500-1000 m) at the University of Aberdeen campus as part of the Aberdeen Geothermal Feasibility Pilot (AGFP). The aim of this project is to safely drill and complete a deep borehole on the University of Aberdeen campus to a minimum depth of 500 m, and to extend as deep as safely achievable within site and budget constraints, with the option of a second shallow monitoring well. The borehole(s) will provide a long-term research platform for geothermal, geological, petrophysical, hydrological, and geophysical investigations. The deep borehole will be equipped with a Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) and Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) systems and a mechanism for groundwater sampling, flow and recharge testing, allowing long-term monitoring and characterisation of subsurface thermal, geophysical and hydrological behaviour.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Tender published19 December 2025
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Submission date19 January 2026

About the buyer

University of Aberdeen is a Scottish higher education institution that buys through its own Procurement Office. Tenders are advertised through Public Contracts Scotland, with invitation-to-tender exercises run on the PCS-Tender platform. Larger contracts are also published on the UK-wide Find a Tender service. Much of its purchasing also runs through Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges (APUC), the framework body for the Scottish higher education sector. Procurement decisions follow the Scottish Government's Procurement Journey guidance. A dedicated Supplier Coordinator also manages supplier registration and credit checks on the university's own Finance and Procurement system.

Education procurement reached £47.4bn in 2024/25, the fourth-largest public sector budget.

Over the past 5 years, most of University of Aberdeen's contract awards have been in software and information systems, repair and maintenance and business services.

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  • 76300000 · Drilling services

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