Awarded contract

Support Services for UK Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) Device - 2026

Details

Buyer: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
Supplier(s): AST Marine Sciences Limited
Value: £78,473.78
Duration: 2 years
Topic: Information technology services
Published: 12 June 2026
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

The UK is required to collect position information from UK administered commercial fishing vessels over 12m in length, and where said vessels are fishing in EU states and other 3rd countries’ waters, forward those position reports to those states. This ongoing requirement is for the continued support services of AST Marine Science Ltd who are the suppliers of the required terminal, the bespoke firmware and the proprietorial network applications that receive and forward the position reports. ## Contract award

Timeline

Completed: Award published12 June 2026
Current notice
Completed: Award date12 June 2026
Next: Contract expiry date8 July 2028in 2 years

About the buyer

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) is a ministerial department that also buys through agencies such as the Environment Agency, the Rural Payments Agency and the Animal and Plant Health Agency. DEFRA also procures goods and services through the Crown Commercial Service. Existing contracts and frameworks set up under the previous procurement regulations remain valid until they expire.

Over the past 5 years, most of DEFRA's contract awards have been in research and development, construction work and business services.

Decision makers

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