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Marine Monitoring Vessels Service

Buyer: ENVIRONMENT AGENCY →

BuyerENVIRONMENT AGENCY
StatusAwarded
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published6 May 2025

What is being bought

marine vessel services for the Environment Agency (EA) commissioned estuarine and coastal monitoring programme, delivered by the Monitoring Survey Estuarine and Coastal (MSEC) team, part of National Monitoring Survey.

Delivery location

UK

Categories

Offshore supply-vessel services 76522000

Lot details

Lot 1

marine vessel services for the Environment Agency (EA) commissioned estuarine and coastal monitoring programme, delivered by the Monitoring Survey Estuarine and Coastal (MSEC) team, part of National Monitoring Survey.

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
price

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Not publishedNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 76. The category anchor is Offshore supply-vessel services (76522000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 762193 median · 70.8 average (44 of 219 with a bid count)7.2 average (58 of 219 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UK8714.5 median · 223.4 average (12 of 87 with a bid count)11.4 average (19 of 87 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleunder regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, which applies where competition is absent for technical reasons, provided no reasonable alternative or substitute exists and the absence of competition is not the result of an artificial narrowing down of the parameters of the procurement.
Rationale classificationsThe procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
Special regimeNot published
Covered byGPA
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Awards

Contracts

018951-2025-1

Statusactive
Value£12,943,279

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-03d49c
Latest release ID018951-2025
Latest release timestampTue May 06 2025 06:32:43 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statuscomplete
Procurement methodlimited
Procurement method detailsAward procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release1
Contracts in latest release1
Parties in latest release3

Notice history

DateEventReference
6 May 2025award, contract018951-2025
8 Jun 2023planning016237-2023

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (2 releases)
6 May 2025 · 018951-2025 · award, contract
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8 Jun 2023 · 016237-2023 · planning
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