The Subsea Soundscape (S3) Program Procurement

Award Criteria

CSP will evaluate the Bidders' Tender Responses on the basis of the Most Advantageous Tender. Bidders must: (a) provide responses for the Technical Criteria in the form of a proposal which meets each of the Requirements set out. (b) provide responses for the Commercial Criteria by completing the Commercial Response Document (c) provide responses for the Social Value Criteria by responding to the question set out (d) complete the Certificate of Tender in the form set. This requires Bidders to unconditionally accept the terms of the Contract. A Tender Response shall "Fail" and be rejected if the Bidder does not confirm it unconditionally accepts the terms of the Contract. If the successful Bidder attempts to make amendments before entering into the Contract, CSP reserves the right to exclude the Bidder and award the Contract to the next ranked bidder in the Procurement. .

Description

The purpose of this Procurement is to procure for at-sea mooring units, equipped with state-of-the-art broadband acoustic recorders, pop-up acoustic retrieval systems and tag detection capabilities, and delivered to a workshop in Pembrokeshire, Wales, that will be deployed with CTD environmental sampling at service intervals to maximise data capture. S3 will deploy up to 21 remote systems across the Celtic Sea, each consisting of an acoustic release, a fish tag detector, a hydrophone, and a cetacean click-train logger. Where feasible, preference will be given to integrated solutions that combine multiple components-such as fish tag detection and acoustic release-into a single unit to enhance efficiency and deployment simplicity. The total budget of the Contract is £303,000

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