Underwater Acoustic Receivers for the Bioscience SEACAMS2 Project

Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: United Kingdom

1. Title: UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC RECEIVERS FOR THE BIOSCIENCE SEACAMS2 PROJECT
2. Awarding Authority: Swansea University, Procurement – Finance, Singleton Park, Swansea, GB, SA2 8PP. Tel: 01792295890.. Web: www.swansea.ac.uk (Sue Davies)
3. Contract type: Supply contract
Single stage – Any candidate may submit a tender.
4. Description: The main objective of the SEACAMS2 (Sustainable Expansion of the Applied Coastal and Marine Sectors) project is to assist the development of opportunities in Low carbon, Energy and Environment in the convergence regions of Specified Location, and is an investment in the potential offered by the marine economy and marine renewable energy.
The SEACAMS2 project at Swansea University is developing a joint research project with the Unlocking the Severn partnership, a group including the Environment Agency, Canal and Rivers Trust, Severn Rivers Trust and Natural England to survey fish populations in the Bristol Channel.
A fieldwork campaign to assist in methodological development by tagging fish in the river Severn has already been undertaken by the partnership using Vemco v9 tags, and the SEACAMS2 project now requires up to twenty Vemco VR2W receivers and up to twenty Vemco VR2TX receivers to support their research project.
5. CPV Code(s): 30232600, 32342400, 32342410, 34930000, 38114000, 38434200
6. NUTS code(s): UKL, UKL1, UKL14, UKL, UKL1, UKL11, UKL, UKL1, UKL12, UKL, UKL1, UKL13, UKL, UKL2, UKL24, UKL, UKL2, UKL22, UKL, UKL2, UKL23, UKL, UKL2, UKL21, UKL, UKL1, UKL15, UKL, UKL1, UKL16, UKL, UKL1, UKL18, UKL, UKL1, UKL17
7. Main site or location of works, main place of delivery or main place of performance: Wales
West Wales and The Valleys
Isle of Anglesey
Gwynedd
Conwy and Denbighshire
South West Wales (Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion)
Central Valleys (Merthyr Tydfil, Rhondda Cynon Taf)
Gwent Valleys (Torfaen, Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly)
Bridgend and Neath Port Talbot
Swansea
East Wales
Monmouthshire and Newport
Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan
Flintshire and Wrexham
Powys
8. Reference attributed by awarding authority: WA Ref:95028
Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority
SU318(19)
9. Estimated value of requirement: Not provided.
10. Time-limit for receipt of completed tenders 3.9.2019 (12:00:00).
11. Address to which they must be sent: For further information/documentation regarding the above contract notice please visit
12. Other information: NOTE: The authority is using eTenderwales to carry out this procurement process. To obtain further information record your interest on Sell2Wales at
Total quantity or scope of tender
Tender submissions should include unit prices for between 1-20 units of both Vemco VR2W and VR2TX receivers, with optimum delivery to Swansea University by 15th September 2019.
Minimum standards and qualification required
The SEACAMS2 project currently use a Vemco deck box which uses encrypted pulses of sound to communicate with receivers while they are under water and decodes those receiver responses. Since these signals are encoded and cannot be decoded through third party hardware, only Vemco receivers can be procured
Estimated award date
06-09-2019
Language or languages in which tenders or requests to participate can be drawn up
EN
WELSH
This tender is being conducted electronically via etenderwales BravoSolution (itt 76924), and only tenders submitted via etenderwales by the tender deadline can be considered.
(WA Ref:95028)
Relates to the following project/programme financed by EU Community Funds: Part of the SEACAMS project funding for these receivers is from the Welsh European Funding Office (WEFO)
The buyer considers that this contract is suitable for consortia bidding.
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