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

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Completed documents must be returned to:

2 Contract Details

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Title

Tender for Underwater Acoustic Receivers for the Bioscience SEACAMS2 Project

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Description of the goods or services required

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 Wales, 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.

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=95028

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Notice Coding and Classification

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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.

3 Conditions for Participation

3.1

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

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

SU318(19)

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Time Limits

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

WELSH

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Tender Submission Postbox

5 Other Information

5.1

Additional Information

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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Additional Documentation

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Publication date of this notice