Contract award · 2 Dec 2024

CEFAS24-07 Contract for the provision to provide subtidal Sabellaria surveys at Hinkley Point C

Cefas awarded “Contract for the provision to provide subtidal Sabellaria surveys at Hinkley Point C” to Ocean Ecology Limited for £146k on 2 Dec 2024.

Vehicles & transport equipmentEast of England

BuyerCefas
Value £146k
WinnerOcean Ecology Limited SME

Open competition

Open procedure: the contract was advertised and any supplier could submit a bid.

Key facts

Buyer
Cefas · Body governed by public law
Value
£145,558
Procedure
Open procedure (above threshold)
Sector
Vehicles & transport equipment · Survey vessels (CPV 34513550)
Timeline
  1. Contract date2 Dec 2024
  2. Published6 Dec 2024Published 4 days after the contract date

Description

The Hinkley BEEMS (British EDF Estuarine and Marine Studies) programme is funded by New Nuclear Build Generation Company (HPC) Ltd. Through this programme, Cefas provide authoritative scientific information on the marine and transitional waters in the vicinity of potential new build nuclear power stations and require a competent supplier to deliver the following; Cefas require a supplier to conduct subtidal monitoring surveys for the Hinkley Point C (HPC) Nuclear New Build (NNB) project to meet regulatory environmental monitoring requirements. At HPC, the Sabellaria spp. monitoring programme focuses on mapping and assessing the condition (i.e. reefiness) of the subtidal biogenic reefs present on the seabed at Hinkley Point. The objective of the proposed surveys is to measure the spatial extent of the Sabellaria spp. by collecting high-resolution Side Scan Sonar (SSS) data of the area of interest and to ground-truth an area of the seabed with an Adaptive Resolution Imaging Sonar (ARIS)…

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