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title: "CEFAS22-150 OWEC POSEIDON - LOT 3 (Celtic Sea)"
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# CEFAS22-150 OWEC POSEIDON - LOT 3 (Celtic Sea)

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/cefas22-150-owec-poseidon-lot-3-celtic-sea-ocds-h6vhtk-038ae3). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Cefas: "CEFAS22-150 OWEC POSEIDON - LOT 3 (Celtic Sea)". Published status: complete. Published Value: £850,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 23 Jan 2023, 12:00 GMT. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Cefas](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/cefas-gov-ea53)
- **Published Value:** £850,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 23 January 2023 at 12:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Marine survey services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £402,815 (exc. VAT, 2 contracts)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-038ae3`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/cefas22-150-owec-poseidon-lot-3-celtic-sea-ocds-h6vhtk-038ae3#tl-md)

## Description
POSEIDON (Planning Offshore Wind Strategic Environmental Impact DecisiONs) is a Crown Estate-funded project (Offshore Wind Evidence & Change program (OWEC)) led by Natural England. The aim of the project is to provide tools to inform offshore wind planning, to minimise impacts on the natural environment through avoidance and early awareness of likely mitigation / compensation needs, allowing sustainable expansion of offshore wind. This will be achieved through the collection of strategic environmental baseline data and updated spatial models for key species (receptors), assemblages, and a suite of ecological metrics (diversity, functional traits). These will be used to identify regions that are most vulnerable to offshore wind impact and mapping of the environmental risk to help guide future offshore wind development rounds and to feed into wider marine planning.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 71354500
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Estimated Value:** £850,000

- **Contract Period:** 09/02/2023 to 31/07/2024

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (2)
- **Award:** 007646-2023-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Ocean Ecology Limited**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-170285`
  - Value: £219,869 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** 007647-2023-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Ocean Ecology Limited**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-170285`
  - Value: £182,946 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (2)
- **Contract:** 007646-2023-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £219,869
  - Signed Date: 13/02/2023

- **Contract:** 007647-2023-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £182,946
  - Signed Date: 13/02/2023

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F017466-2023)
- **Last Source Update:** 2023-06-20T09:37:40.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-28T17:31:18.508Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-038ae3