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This Early Market Engagement is to inform potential tenderers that the MCA is under taking a Request for Information (RFI) The current Agency radio estate is facing challenges as several components are approaching End of Life (EOL). This situation poses a risk of radio site failure due to the unavailability of replacements and spares. These elements need to be replaced and are currently based on an analogue architecture. We propose not only to upgrade this infrastructure, but also modernise this and consolidate into a holistic, and possibly software defined and digital enabled service, which encompasses all radio equipment from the antenna through to the operator's terminal across each of the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centres and the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre. Elements within scope of this business case include: - VHF and MF transceivers, - Radio Media Gateways, - Power Distribution Units, - Uninterrupted Power Supplies, - Network Routers, - Cabling and other consumables, and - Third-party installation services. This RFI will help us to refine what is available within the market and assist with the development of our future tender requirements. Additional information: This market engagement is being undertaken via the DfT's e-sourcing portal, Jaggaer. Suppliers must register on Jaggaer, log-in and navigate to PQQ_544 in order to respond to this market consultation.

HM Coastguard (HMCG) helicopters and planes, provided under the UKSAR2G contract, have a primary role to provide search and rescue. However, they undertake a range of other missions in support of wider MCA objectives and those of other government departments. In addition the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) require an Aerial Surveillance service to provide near real time situational awareness in support of specialised SAR operations. Therefore the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) is planning to undertake a procurement for this additional Aerial Surveillance service. HMCG will procure for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets that can supply the information required. This service will not require national coverage. Potentially, during a high-risk times, a Coastguard surveillance asset could be operating for a full 24-hour period extending into consecutive days and sometimes weeks. Respondents should bear in mind that the MCA will take a solution agnostic approach to the procurement and is open to different technological approaches, providing they can demonstrably meet the requirement to provide persistent maritime situational awareness in areas of need. This initial market questionnaire aims to, at a high level, understand the scale, knowledge and capability of the market along with what appetite there is for delivering this service. The MCA would like to understand a broad overview of how you would deliver the service and what costs that would entail over what is an anticipated 5 year contract.

This Market Questionnaire seeks options and potential solutions relating to the national roll out of Oxygen and Analgesia for His Majesty’s Coastguard to support our capability. HM Coastguard are looking to introduce provision of medical gases to its national network of Coastguard Rescue Teams and a number of full-time officers, the requirement will be to provide; • Portable Oxygen O2 2L / CD size in all Coastguard locations and area central Hubs • Portable Nitrous Oxide: N2O (Entonox/Nitronox) 2L size in strategic location across HM Coastguard (approx. 30%) of all locations This initial market questionnaire aims to understand the scale, knowledge and capability of the market along with what appetite there is for delivering this service. The MCA would like to understand a broad overview of how you would deliver the service and what costs that would entail over what is an anticipated 5 year contract.

The Long Sand Head two-way route is located on the Southeast coast of England in the Sunk TSS area which leads in/out of the major Port of London. Over the preceding 10 years; routine re-survey work has been carried out as part of the Civil Hydrography Programme which has identified a slight shoaling and north-eastward migration of the Long Sand Head which has been found to be encroaching into the adjacent two-way route and ultimately causing a narrowing on the navigable corridor. This Market Questionnaire is seeking to understand the options and potential solutions which are available relating to the procurement of services to firstly understand the predicted movement of the sandbank, Long Sand Head, over the next 10, 15 and 20 years. Then, utilising that data, to consider and where required, refine and develop alternative potential routeing design solutions based on navigation risk assessments, baselined against risk today, understanding the needs of current users of the scheme and future solutions taking into account the impact of any changes to the Long Sand Head two way route for traffic navigating the SUNK Centre Precautionary Area.

HM Coastguard (HMCG) helicopters and planes, provided under the UKSAR2G contract, have a primary role to provide search and rescue. However, they undertake a range of other missions in support of wider MCA objectives and those of other government departments. In addition the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) require an Aerial Surveillance service to provide near real time situational awareness in support of specialised SAR operations. Therefore the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) is planning to undertake a procurement for this additional Aerial Surveillance service. HMCG will procure for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets that can supply the information required. This service will not require national coverage. Potentially, during a high-risk times, a Coastguard surveillance asset could be operating for a full 24-hour period extending into consecutive days and sometimes weeks

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) are responsible for the implementation of the SOLAS Convention within the UK, which involves, under Chapter V, maintaining a Long-Range Identification and Tracking (LRIT) Data Centre for use by UK flagged vessels. In addition to meeting this requirement to maintain a Data Centre, the LRIT information is incorporated into the MCAs Maritime Domain Awareness platform, a software-based Geographic Information System (GIS) that integrates data from multiple sensors to provide a comprehensive view of maritime traffic and activity. This Market Consultation Questionnaire is intended to furnish the MCA with the key information it requires to plan a fair and open procurement for this service, including: • Market appetite for participating in a tender process • Understand realistic costs for access to a UK LRIT Data Centre. The information will be used to inform our governance process with a view to tendering this requirement via an Open Procedure under the Procurement Act 2023.

HM Coastguard (HMCG) helicopters and planes, provided under the UKSAR2G contract, have a primary role to provide search and rescue. However, they undertake a range of other missions in support of wider MCA objectives and those of other government departments. In addition the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) require an Aerial Surveillance service to provide near real time situational awareness in support of specialised SAR operations. Therefore the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) is planning to undertake a procurement for this additional Aerial Surveillance service. HMCG will procure for intelligence, search, surveillance and reconnaissance assets that can supply the information required. This service will not require national coverage. Potentially, during a high-risk times, a Coastguard surveillance asset could be operating for a full 24-hour period extending into consecutive days and sometimes weeks. Respondents should bear in mind that the MCA will take a solution agnostic approach to the procurement and is open to different technological approaches, providing they can demonstrably meet the requirement to provide persistent maritime situational awareness in areas of need.

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) is looking to establish a Framework Agreement on behalf of the Secretary of State for Transport. The framework shall be made up of specialist commercial providers with a firm background in the maritime sector who supply multi-disciplinary maritime technical and scientific services in response to an emergency incident. The Contracting Authorities will usually be the MCA, Department for Transport Central, Trinity House, Northern Lighthouse Board. The MCA reserve the right to procure services on behalf of the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), British Overseas Territories (Anguilla, Ascension, Bermuda, British Antarctic Territory, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Monserrat, Saint Helena, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, Tristan da Cunha and the Pitcairn Islands and Turks and Caicos Islands) and Crown Dependencies (Jersey, Guernsey and Isle of Man). It is that the anticipated scope of the future framework agreement is as follows: Lot 1 Salvage Technical and Professional Services. Lot 2 Cargo Professional Services Lot 3 Oil and Gas Technical and Professional Services Lot 4 Technical Dive Professional Services Lot 5 Naval Architect, Masters and Chief Engineers, Surveyor Technical & Professional Services Lot 6 Emergency Response Legal Service

The MCA is seeking information from market participants to provide an Extended Detection and Response (XDR) solution to enhance our cybersecurity capabilities. We are interested in exploring potential solutions that can offer advanced threat detection, response, and automation across our diverse IT infrastructure. This questionnaire is intended to furnish the MCA with the key information it requires to plan a fair and open procurement for this service as well as understand realistic costs and delivery timeframes. MCA has identified Cyber Security Services 3 as a potential framework to procure an XDR solution. Suppliers can apply to join the Cyber Security Services 3 Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) at any point during the agreement time frame, which will be subject to a pre-qualification process managed by Crown Commercial Service. Additional information: Further access to information and to submit/input to the MCAs Market Questionnaire can be achieved via the DFT Procurement and Contract Management system "Jaggaer" where you will need to navigate to PQQ_362 Interested suppliers will need to register on the system, but this is completely free of charge and can be found at the following link - https://dft.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html

The MCA is seeking information from market participants to provide an Emergency Service Alerting and Tasking Response solution to replace our existing legacy application/capability. We are interested in exploring potential solutions that can offer advanced Alerting, Tasking, Communication, and Navigation mapping capabilities. This questionnaire is intended to furnish the MCA with the key information it requires to plan a fair and open procurement for this service, including: - Understand realistic costs for a fully supported critical service operating 24 hours per day, 7 days a week - Indicative delivery timeframes - Market appetite for participating in a tender process The MCA has not yet defined the route to market for any subsequent tendering exercise. Additional information: Further access to information and to submit/input to the MCAs Market Questionnaire can be achieved via the DFT Procurement and Contract Management system "Jaggaer" where you will need to navigate to PQQ_477. Interested suppliers will need to register on the system, but this is completely free of charge and can be found at the following link - https://dft.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html

HMCG are looking to develop and create a Dynamic Marketplace to support its emergency response service by establishing a compliant route to market when it requires the supply of specialist Equipment and Services. This marketplace will be procured under the Procurement Act 2023.

As part of His Majesty's Coastguard (HMCG) 6 Functions the Alert Management System (AMS) will fulfil Search and Rescue, Maritime Safety, Maritime Accident and Disaster Response and Maritime Environmental Protection and Response. The system will enable a technical transformation of how Coastguard volunteers and Full-time officers receive incident taskings and mobilisation messages. A new system will require training for both Maritime and Coastal and HMCG and would need to be coordinated accordingly. A new system would provide a solution that would provide the following functionality (but not exhaustive): - Auditable data - Data that can be shared with 3rd parties - More efficient tool from a user perspective by minimising time engaging resources and reducing any duplication of effort - The solution would be secure in line with HMCG security requirements - Allows messages and images to be shared in a secured controlled manner - Data is compatible with existing HMCG systems The new system would need to be in place by the end of 2025 with all users trained accordingly by this time. It is the intention that the ITT will be issued early November 2024 for a 4 + 1 contract duration.

Counter Pollution is one of His Majesty's Coastguards (HMCG) Seven Functions and the Counter Pollution and Salvage (CPS) branch operates as the UK Competent Authority with specific responsibility for Counter Pollution preparedness and responding to at-sea pollution from shipping and offshore installations within the UK Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), and the management of the UK Government’s stockpiles of equipment and dispersant. It is tasked to: • Protect public Health • Prevent pollution occurring by minimising the risk of pollution from ships and offshore installations; • Determine any actual, or threat of, environmental impact and, where pollution occurs: • Minimise the impact on the UK waters, the UK EEZ, coastlines and economic interest. Take the lead in responding to pollution at sea from ships and/or monitor the at-sea-clean up contracted by ship owners/insurers;

For the supply of NAVTEX and Digital Selective Calling services including the NAVTEX Cloud Monitoring Service to Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA).Digital Selective Calling is a component of the Global Maritime Distress & Safety System (GMDSS) and the MCA is obliged to operate this service under International Maritime Organization Resolution.

Counter Pollution is one of HMCG's Six Functions and the Counter Pollution and Salvage (CPS) branch operates as the UK Competent Authority with specific responsibility for Counter Pollution preparedness and responding to at-sea pollution from shipping and offshore installations within the UK Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), and the management of the UK Government's stockpiles of equipment and dispersant. CPS respond to national incidents; counter pollution audits of, and support to, all UK ports and harbours; management of national counter-pollution equipment; environmental support and Fate of Oil modelling, counter pollution training to local authorities. The Authority is currently in the process of finalising its tender documentation and the resultant contract is to provide storage of the MCAs equipment, to maintain it through a program of planned preventative maintenance and repairs as required, and to deploy the equipment in marine pollution incidents using trained and competent responders with experience in this industry. Below is a breakdown of services to be provided during the duration of the contract: a) Equipment, Storage & Maintenance. b) Dispersants c) Incident Response & Support d) Purchasing & Pricing e) Training (Delivery of MCA Courses) Competency & Deployments f) Logistics & Incident Support g) Reporting If you are interested in this opportunity please inform register for a Jaggaer account: https://dft.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html The tender documents will be issued via Jaggaer and a further Notice providing will be published once the tender goes live.

With the MCAs Aerial Dispersant Spray Service due to expire in the next two years, it is our intention to carry out a competition to replace this service and to ensure the broadest possible participation in the process by the market. Under consideration is the possible extension of incumbent services to facilitate this if required. In addition, the MCA will: - Make the MCA owned 737 400 Oil Dispersant Spray Kit used to deliver the current service available at no cost to any successful bidder, meaning it can feature in any bid solution to the MCAs requirement; - Enable any successful bidder to purchase an incumbent owned 737 400 Oil Dispersant Spray Kit, currently under development, at fair market value, so that it can feature in any bid solution for the MCAs requirement; - Provide any successful bidder with access to and a license to use the intellectual property, in the form of Subject Type Certificates, for the Oil Dispersant Spray Kit, so bidders can include the use, maintenance and modification of the existing Oil Dispersant Spray Kits, or the manufacture of new Kits, in their bid solution; - Provide bidders with access to knowledge and information on the incumbent service and how it is delivered; - Notwithstanding the above, be solution agnostic and open to any alternative aircraft and delivery systems which meet the requirement. Please note that the 737 400 aircraft used to deliver the current contract are not transferrable. Alternative 737 400s would need to be modified to take the kit. 737 400 Oil Dispersant Spray Kit: - Palletised kit which can be rolled on and off the aircraft. Installation takes approximately three hours for a trained crew. - Refill takes ~45 minutes and can be done simultaneously with refuel. - Carries 15,900 litres of dispersant. - Effective swath of ~25m. - Variable pump speed to achieve 1:20 dosage rate up to 1:10 dosage rate. - Cruise speed of 250 knots (300 knots true airspeed). - Sprays at a height of 200ft, at 200 knot speed. - The MCA owns the intellectual property and STC certificates for this system. These can be made available to any operator for the purpose of delivering aerial dispersant spray services on behalf of MCA to enable operators to use and maintain the existing kit, modify aircraft to take the kit and manufacture new kits. This market engagement /questionnaire is intended to furnish the MCA with the key information it requires to plan a fair and open procurement for this service. Interested party's in this engagement must register on the Department for Transport (DfT) procurement portal (Jaggaer) in order to access the documents. https://dft.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html *** Once logged into Jaggaer, please navigate to pqq_258 *** Additional information: Further access to information and to submit/input to the MCA's Market Questionnaire can achieved via the DFT Procurement and Contract Management system "Jaggaer". Interested suppliers will need to register on the system, but this is completely free of charge and can be found at the following link - https://dft.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html

Marking and Guarding Services relating to the SS Richard Montgomery wreck.

The requirement is for 1 x CB4 oil recovery replacement tubes and equipment upto and including the towing bridles. This is a direct and identical product replacement of an item already owned by the Contracting Authority. To ensure value for money in the use of public funds the decision has been taken to only replace the failing parts of the system.

With the MCAs Aerial Dispersant Spray Service due to expire in the next two years, it is our intention to carry out a competition to replace this service and to ensure the broadest possible participation in the process by the market. Under consideration is the possible extension of incumbent services to facilitate this if required. In addition, the MCA will: - Make the MCA owned 737 400 Oil Dispersant Spray Kit used to deliver the current service available at no cost to any successful bidder, meaning it can feature in any bid solution to the MCAs requirement; - Enable any successful bidder to purchase an incumbent owned 737 400 Oil Dispersant Spray Kit, currently under development, at fair market value, so that it can feature in any bid solution for the MCAs requirement; - Provide any successful bidder with access to and a license to use the intellectual property, in the form of Subject Type Certificates, for the Oil Dispersant Spray Kit, so bidders can include the use, maintenance and modification of the existing Oil Dispersant Spray Kits, or the manufacture of new Kits, in their bid solution; - Provide bidders with access to knowledge and information on the incumbent service and how it is delivered; - Notwithstanding the above, be solution agnostic and open to any alternative aircraft and delivery systems which meet the requirement. Please note that the 737 400 aircraft used to deliver the current contract are not transferrable. Alternative 737 400s would need to be modified to take the kit. 737 400 Oil Dispersant Spray Kit: - Palletised kit which can be rolled on and off the aircraft. Installation takes approximately three hours for a trained crew. - Refill takes ~45 minutes and can be done simultaneously with refuel. - Carries 15,900 litres of dispersant. - Effective swath of ~25m. - Variable pump speed to achieve 1:20 dosage rate up to 1:10 dosage rate. - Cruise speed of 250 knots (300 knots true airspeed). - Sprays at a height of 200ft, at 200 knot speed. - The MCA owns the intellectual property and STC certificates for this system. These can be made available to any operator for the purpose of delivering aerial dispersant spray services on behalf of MCA to enable operators to use and maintain the existing kit, modify aircraft to take the kit and manufacture new kits. This market engagement /questionnaire is intended to furnish the MCA with the key information it requires to plan a fair and open procurement for this service. Interested party's in this engagement must register on the Department for Transport (DfT) procurement portal (Jaggaer) in order to access the documents. https://dft.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html *** Once logged into Jaggaer, please navigate to pqq_258 *** Additional information: Further access to information and to submit/input to the MCA's Market Questionnaire can achieved via the DFT Procurement and Contract Management system "Jaggaer". Interested suppliers will need to register on the system, but this is completely free of charge and can be found at the following link - https://dft.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html