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# Hydrographic Survey Services

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/hydrographic-survey-services-ocds-h6vhtk-039a64). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Maritime and Coastguard Agency: "Hydrographic Survey Services". Published status: active. Published Value: £17,000,000. 5 published lots. Recorded submission deadline: 23 Feb 2023, 11:00 GMT. Published submission portal: dft.app.jaggaer.com.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Maritime and Coastguard Agency](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/maritime-and-coastguard-agency-gov-ea78)
- **Published Value:** £17,000,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 23 February 2023 at 11:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 5
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Hydrographic surveying services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Official Documents:** 1 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/hydrographic-survey-services-ocds-h6vhtk-039a64#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-039a64`

## 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/hydrographic-survey-services-ocds-h6vhtk-039a64#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [dft.app.jaggaer.com](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdft.app.jaggaer.com)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/hydrographic-survey-services-ocds-h6vhtk-039a64#participate

## Description
The Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) is an Executive Agency of the Department for Transport. The MCA is responsible throughout the UK for implementing and developing the UK Government’s maritime safety and environmental protection policy.  That includes co-ordinating Search and Rescue at sea through His Majesty’s Coastguard 24 hours a day, and checking that ships meet UK and international safety rules. The MCA work to prevent the loss of lives at the coast and at sea, to ensure that ships are safe, and to prevent coastal pollution: Safer Lives, Safer Ships, Cleaner Seas.
The MCA plays a unique role within Government in discharging the UK's statutory hydrographic obligations under the United Nations’ Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) Convention.  The MCA funds, manages and delivers the UK Civil Hydrography Programme (CHP). The CHP is a multi-million-pound MCA-led Government initiative to prioritise, survey and map UK waters in order to keep UK nautical charts and publications current, safe and fit for purpose. 
This multi-disciplined marine data gathering programme is targeted at areas of highest navigational safety risk. The CHP work scopes are:
Lot 1 Shallow Water – typically water depths 0-200m, predominantly depths less than 40m;
Lot 2 Medium Water – typically water depths 0-200m;  
Lot 3 Routine Resurvey – navigationally critical shallow water  areas with mobile seabed;
Lot 4: Protection of Wrecks Act 1973, Section 2 Surveys - SS Richard Montgomery;
Lot 5: Supplementary Hydrographic Survey Services.

## Lots (5)
### Lot 1: Hydrographic Survey Services
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 71353100
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Estimated Value:** £6,500,000

- **Contract Period:**  to 31/03/2026
- **Renewal published:** yes

### Lot 2: Hydrographic Survey Services
- **Lot id:** `2`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 71353100
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Estimated Value:** £6,500,000

- **Contract Period:**  to 31/03/2026
- **Renewal published:** yes

### Lot 3: Hydrographic Survey Services
- **Lot id:** `3`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 71353100
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Estimated Value:** £2,000,000

- **Contract Period:**  to 31/03/2026
- **Renewal published:** yes

### Lot 4: Hydrographic Survey Services
- **Lot id:** `4`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 71353100
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Estimated Value:** £200,000

- **Contract Period:**  to 31/03/2026
- **Renewal published:** yes

### Lot 5: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `5`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 71353100
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Estimated Value:** £1

- **Contract Period:**  to 31/03/2026
- **Renewal published:** yes

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F002244-2023)
- **Last Source Update:** 2023-01-25T09:54:03.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-11-01T11:54:19.623Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-039a64