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Marine Monitoring Vessels Service - Market Sounding Exercise
Forecast: a planned procurement that is not yet at tender stage.
01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- £15,000,000Estimated value stated in the notice
- Deadline (UK time)
- No open deadlineA deadline does not apply to this forecast notice.
- Published
- 31 May 2023
- Region
- Not stated
02/ The brief
What the notice says
Not fully read: this is the notice text; attached documents are not read.
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.
03/ Classification
CPV codes
Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.
- 98360000
04/ History
Releases of this notice
One release held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.
- 31 May 2023Planning notice
Planning notice published 31 May 2023.
Release 015357-2023
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05/ Limits
What the source does not tell us
- Only one release is held, so there is no change history.
06/ Questions
About this notice
07/ Related
Where to go next
These links follow a fixed rule applied to this notice’s buyer, text and CPV codes. They are not advice on whether to bid.
- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-03d07e
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Stage
- planning · Planning
- Last verified
- Mon 6 Apr 2026, 11:38 BST
- Read at
- Fri 16 Oct 2026, 21:24 BST
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