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# Marine Monitoring Vessels Service - Market Sounding Exercise

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/marine-monitoring-vessels-service-market-sounding-exercise-ocds-h6vhtk-03d07e). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Defra Group Commercial: "Marine Monitoring Vessels Service - Market Sounding Exercise". Published status: planning. Planned Pipeline Value: £15,000,000. Lot information not published. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNING (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Defra Group Commercial](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/defra-group-commercial-GB-FTS-138262)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** £15,000,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 0
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Marine services, Marine survey services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** Not published
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-03d07e`

## 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/marine-monitoring-vessels-service-market-sounding-exercise-ocds-h6vhtk-03d07e#tl-md)

## Description
The current contract includes, the operation, management and provision of five bespoke built survey vessels including crew, covering a designated geographic area.  This includes provision of a qualified skipper within the Southwest, an additional sixth geographic area, to work on our smaller coded vessels owned by the Agency.
We currently are seeking potential organisations to complete a market sounding questionnaire to determine the interest in organisations or consortia to undertake the future marine vessels monitoring service. This can be provided by emailing rachael.burton@defra.gov.uk requesting a copy. 
The aims of this document is to;
•	give further information to interested consortia/organisations about the project
•	help the Agency determine if there is sufficient potential interest in bidding for the contract.
•	understand the capabilities of organisations who may be interested in undertaking this role
•	give consortia/partners the opportunity to be part of the future marine monitoring programme.

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F015357-2023)
- **Last Source Update:** 2023-05-31T10:30:01.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-25T03:41:43.648Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-03d07e