Award notice observed
Latest variant observed by Bidwake on .
Open this official Contracts Finder notice
Record references
- Release reference
9b5e6bb5-305c-40cc-8fa0-68a3c06129cd-702714- Published tags
- award
Loading records…
Public procurement
See the published facts, notice history, awards and supplier links in one place. Open the original Contracts Finder notice for the full record.
ocds-b5fd17-cdc13d94-ac68-4c9a-8046-30e96d17f9faPublished facts
9b5e6bb5-305c-40cc-8fa0-68a3c06129cd-702714The UK is required to collect position information from UK administered commercial fishing vessels over 12m in length, and where said vessels are fishing in EU states and other 3rd countries' waters, forward those position reports to those states. This condition has been in place since 1998 when predecessor regulations came into force for over 15m vessels, and it is required that said vessels send position reports from a UK approved transponder. In 2011-12 the ageing transponders on the UK fleet, as well as equipping 12-15m vessels in line with emerging requirements under 1224/2009. The refresh was carried out under an open tender awarded to Applied Satellite Technologies. This contract (RMP6270) was largely for equipping but also provided the required support arrangements only available from the equipping company. When this contract expired in June 2017 the UK fishing authorities could not operate without this support, which was not free from the supplier. Therefore, a single supplier support only contract was put in place. The transponders are proprietorial in that AST Marine Science Ltd are the suppliers of the terminal, the bespoke firmware and the proprietorial network applications that receive and forward the position reports. It would not be feasible for a 3rd party to take control of these services.
Observed notice trail
Events follow the publisher date where one is available. “Seen by Bidwake” is the date this service first found the record.
Award notice observed
Latest variant observed by Bidwake on .
Open this official Contracts Finder notice
9b5e6bb5-305c-40cc-8fa0-68a3c06129cd-702714Awards and suppliers
Buyer: DEFRASupplier: The AST Group
ocds-b5fd17-cdc13d94-ac68-4c9a-8046-30e96d17f9fa-1End dates, recurrence wording and links are shown as they appear in public notices. They do not create a new opportunity. If no later linked record appears here, that means Bidwake did not find one in the records it has loaded; it does not prove that none exists.