Competition with a shortlist
Competitive procedure with a selection stage: suppliers were shortlisted before being invited to bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Northern Lighthouse Board · Body governed by public law
- Value
- £59,360,000
- Procedure
- Competitive procedure with negotiation
- Sector
- Vehicles & transport equipment · Helicopters (CPV 34711500)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 063001-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date14 Jun 2026
- Published3 Jul 2026Published 19 days after the contract date
Description
Key Requirements: -Capable of landing on a helipad with a safe loading of four tonnes on a footprint of 250mm x 250mm. -Capable of operating from the helidecks of the GLA vessels. Task examples: - A smaller task would be to carry two technicians with small tools and emergency overnight kit to a lighthouse in the morning and return later the same day; the radius of action is likely to be between 5 and 100 nm. - A larger task might require twelve workers, their baggage and several tons of underslung material to be carried out in several trips from a vessel close by or an onshore location nearby and brought back a few days or weeks later. In practice there are a wide variety of tasks in terms of size, distance and complexity. A task may change to include underslung loads at any time Underslung loads represent between 15 and 32% of the operational flying tasks per year (averaging 22%). They are usually flown from a GLA vessel close by or from an accessible point on the nearest mainland to…
About the supplier
PLM Dollar Group Ltd (trading as PDG Aviation Services): every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company SC157532).