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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

University of Southampton

Provision of an Autonomous Surface Vessel

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Value£60k
Awarded22 Nov 2016
Published13 Jan 2017
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£60ktotal contract value
median £102k
this tender£0£2.9m

This sits in the lower-middle of the Transport Equipment band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 15,368 valued Transport Equipment tenders in our corpus.

The brief

***AWARD OF CONTRACT** for the delivery of one or more surface vessels applicable for the development and understanding of autonomous surface vessel behaviours and collection of high quality scientific data.

The vessel/s will primarily be used as a general test bed for: 1.Engineering research in autonomous behaviour including 2.Collision avoidance 3.Navigational Planning 4.Fault tolerance and system reliability analysis 5.Multi-dimensional communication with sub-surface and above surface assets 6.Bespoke sensor package development and evaluation 7.Scientific research including: 8.High grade survey of littoral, river and estuary regions 9.Seabed and above water feature mapping 10.Bathometry **PLEASE NOTE** This requirement has already been fulfilled therefore this notice is published for transparency purposes only.**

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Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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16/ESM/84a
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