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# UKRI-3918 New England Shelf Hydrogeology

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/ukri-3918-new-england-shelf-hydrogeology-ocds-h6vhtk-046b5f). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** UK Research and Innovation: "UKRI-3918 New England Shelf Hydrogeology". Published status: complete. Published Value: US$26,000,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 11 Sept 2024, 14:00 BST. Published submission portal: www.delta-esourcing.com.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [UK Research and Innovation](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/uk-research-and-innovation-gov-pb1221)
- **Published Value:** US$26,000,000 (USD)
- **Submission Deadline:** 11 September 2024 at 14:00 BST
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Core drilling, Floating or submersible drilling or production platforms, Offshore drilling services, Rock-drilling equipment, Subsea drilling work
- **Delivery Location:** US
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Official Documents:** 4 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/ukri-3918-new-england-shelf-hydrogeology-ocds-h6vhtk-046b5f#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-046b5f`

## 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/ukri-3918-new-england-shelf-hydrogeology-ocds-h6vhtk-046b5f#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [delta-esourcing.com](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.delta-esourcing.com%2Ftenders%2FUK-UK-Swindon%3A-Offshore-drilling-services.%2FBT9ZES6HV6)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/ukri-3918-new-england-shelf-hydrogeology-ocds-h6vhtk-046b5f#participate

## Description
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.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 34514000, 43124900, 45262422, 76340000
- **Delivery regions:** US

- **Estimated Value:** US$26,000,000
- **Description:** 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 pr...

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 002542-2025-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Matrix Offshore Services, LLC**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-136271`
  - Value: US$25,578,242 † (exc. VAT)

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

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 002542-2025-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: US$25,578,242
  - Signed Date: 22/01/2025

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F002542-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-01-24T14:05:04.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-26T01:56:58.804Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-046b5f