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UKRI-3918 New England Shelf Hydrogeology

Core drilling
Floating or submersible drilling or production platforms
Offshore drilling services
+2 more
US
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
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Tenderline Synopsis: UK Research & Innovation: "UKRI-3918 New England Shelf Hydrogeology". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityUK Research & InnovationScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
complete
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for UK Research & Innovation. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
3.5Bids / Report
60.6% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationNo estimate
Insufficient attributable awardsNo concentration estimate available
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 253 active published awards; 251 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityUK Research & Innovation
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statuscomplete
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published24 Jan 2025, 14:05 GMT
Last source update24 Jan 2025, 14:05 GMT
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationCore drilling, Floating or submersible drilling or production platforms, Offshore drilling services, Rock-drilling equipment, Subsea drilling work
Delivery area
US
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-046b5f
What is being bought
The British Geological Survey (BGS), acting on behalf of the European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD), requires a marine coring capability and suitable vessel to operate offshore New England, USA, for a scientific drilling, coring and groundwater sampling campaign for a period of between 60 – 90 days (estimated) between May and August 2025. This scientific coring project seeks to extend our understanding of the current and past states of fluid composition, pressure, and temperature in continental shelf environments. In many coastal settings worldwide, the distribution of freshwater within continental shelf sediments is far out of equilibrium with modern sea level. One of the most remarkable examples is found on the Atlantic continental shelf off New England where groundwater within shallow Pliocene-Pleistocene sand aquifers over 100 km offshore has low salinity (3000 mg/l or less). This project will test several hypotheses to help constrain rates, directions, and mechanisms of groundwater flow and chemical fluxes in continental shelf systems.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Status changed to complete
    24 Jan 2025, 14:05 GMT
  2. Official notice release published
    24 Jan 2025, 14:05 GMT
  3. Official notice release published
    23 Sept 2024, 16:05 BST
  4. tender value changed
    29 Aug 2024, 12:05 BST
  5. Status changed to published status
    29 Aug 2024, 12:05 BST
  6. Official notice release published
    29 Aug 2024, 12:05 BST
  7. Submission deadline changed to published date
    29 Aug 2024, 12:05 BST
  8. Published value updated to US$26,000,000
    9 Aug 2024, 16:05 BST
  9. Status changed to active
    9 Aug 2024, 16:05 BST
  10. Official notice release published
    9 Aug 2024, 16:05 BST
  11. Submission deadline changed to 11 Sept 2024, 14:00 BST
    9 Aug 2024, 16:05 BST
  12. Buyer information updated
    9 Aug 2024, 16:05 BST
  13. tender value changed
    24 May 2024, 16:05 BST
  14. Status changed to published status
    24 May 2024, 16:05 BST
  15. Official notice release published
    24 May 2024, 16:05 BST
  16. Published value updated to US$26,000,000
    24 May 2024, 14:05 BST
  17. Status changed to planned
    24 May 2024, 14:05 BST
  18. Official notice release published
    24 May 2024, 14:05 BST
  19. Buyer information updated
    24 May 2024, 14:05 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    cancelled
    Published valueNot published
    The project requires a contractor to provide a suitable platform from which to deploy coring apparatus to achieve near-continuous core samples (min. diameter 60mm) from seabed to a total depth (TD) of 550 mbsf (meters below sea floor) at each of 3 pre-determined sites. Additionally, the project requires to drill (not core) 2 boreholes at 2 of the 3 pre-determined sites for groundwater testing and sampling at specific intervals selected using the results from the cored boreholes. The contractor will be responsible for supplying the vessel and personnel; and undertaking the drilling, coring and groundwater testing/sampling requirements. Please see the Specification for full details.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    24 Jan 2025, 14:05 GMT
  2. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  3. Contract active
    Signed 22 Jan 2025, 00:00 GMT · US$25,578,242
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
Matrix Offshore Services, LLC
Not published · Not published · active
Contracts
Contract
US$25,578,242 · signed 22 Jan 2025, 00:00 GMT · active
Bid statistics
bids: 2 (lot 1)
electronicBids: 2 (lot 1)
foreignBidsFromEU: 0 (lot 1)
foreignBidsFromNonEU: 2 (lot 1)
smeBids: 1 (lot 1)
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

UK Research & Innovation

Contracting authority GB-FTS-1496
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  • UK Research & Innovation
    buyer

    Polaris House, North Star Avenue, Swindon, UKK14, SN2 1FL
    NERCProcurement@ukri.org
    +44 7562167366

  • Matrix Offshore Services, LLC
    supplier

    001555286
    1661 Old Belfast Road, Lewisburg, TN, US, 37091
    +1 9313596564

  • UK Research & Innovation
    reviewBody

    Swindon, SN2 1FL
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