Marine Monitoring Vessels Service - Market Sounding Exercise

The current contract includes, the operation, management and provision of five bespoke built survey vessels including crew, covering a designated geographic area. This includes provision of a qualified skipper within the Southwest, an additional sixth geographic area, to work on our smaller coded vessels owned by the Agency.

We currently are seeking potential organisations to complete a market sounding questionnaire to determine the interest in organisations or consortia to undertake the future marine vessels monitoring service. This can be provided by emailing rachael.burton@defra.gov.uk requesting a copy.

The aims of this document is to;

• give further information to interested consortia/organisations about the project

• help the Agency determine if there is sufficient potential interest in bidding for the contract.

• understand the capabilities of organisations who may be interested in undertaking this role

• give consortia/partners the opportunity to be part of the future marine monitoring programme.