CONTRACT NOTICE – NATIONAL

1 Authority Details

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Authority Name and Address

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Address from which documentation may be obtained

As in 1.1

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Completed documents must be returned to:

As in 1.1

2 Contract Details

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Title

2-year supply of Fisheries Monitoring Equipment incl Acoustic Tags and Receivers

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Description of the goods or services required

Swansea University’s Fish tracking team are currently using acoustic tags and passive acoustic recorders to quantify migration pathways of 9 fish species in the Bristol Channel, as well as cetaceans.

Acoustically tagging fish allows detailed information to be gathered around fish behaviour and movements within the riverine, estuarine and marine environments that can be used to prioritise actions and influence management of fisheries.

Swansea University’s Fisheries Project team wish to source a suitably qualified and experienced supplier of Acoustic Tags and Passive Acoustic Receivers over a 2-year period, due to various sources of staggered funding.

The Project teams existing passive acoustic array currently comprises ca.130 deployed receivers (about 100 deployed at sea and approximately 30 in rivers) currently operating on MAP 114 and 115, with most equipment on long term loan from partners including Natural Resources Wales, Natural England, The Environment Agency and the Atlantic Salmon Trust). They also have a significant number of tags already deployed on these code maps.

NOTE: The authority is using eTenderwales to carry out this procurement process. To obtain further information record your interest on Sell2Wales at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/search_switch.aspx?ID=143076

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Notice Coding and Classification

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Total quantity or scope of tender

The Fish tracking programme at Swansea University has recently won GBP700k of grant funding and anticipates spending approximately GBP120k over the next 2 years on tracking equipment and tags from existing and potential future funding (current projects include Nature Networks Funding (PSSST), Welsh Governments Tidal Lagoon Challenge, and Species Recovery funding from Natural England).

3 Conditions for Participation

3.1

Minimum standards and qualification required

This tender is being conducted electronically via project 31525 and itt 111632 of etenderwales BravoSolution:

https://etenderwales.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.shtml

where all tender documents are available for download.

Only tenders uploaded and submitted via etenderwales BravoSolution by the tender deadline can be considered - emailed or hard copies are not acceptable

4 Administrative Information

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Type of Procedure

Single stage

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Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

SU121(24)

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Time Limits

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Language or languages in which tenders or requests to participate can be drawn up

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Tender Submission Postbox

5 Other Information

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Additional Information

(WA Ref:143076)

The buyer considers that this contract is suitable for consortia bidding.

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Additional Documentation

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Publication date of this notice