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CEFAS26-85 ITT for provision of Water and Sediment Sampling Analysis for HPC
This sits in the upper-middle of the Engineering & Architecture band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 33,646 valued Engineering & Architecture tenders in our corpus.
The BEEMS (British EDF Energy Estuarine and Marine Studies) programme is funded by NNB Generation Company (HPC) Limited.
Through this programme, Cefas provide authoritative scientific information on the marine and transitional waters in the vicinity of potential new build nuclear power stations and require the Supplier to deliver the marine sampling, profiling, and laboratory analysis services described in Section 3 below.
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Contract Duration The Contract implementation will start as soon as possible following contract award with the initial Contract period of 12 months, with the option to extend by up to 4 further periods of 12-months each.
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Scope of Requirements Cefas require the supplier to acquire sediment and water samples along with water column profiles of conductivity, temperature and depth (CTD) and other variables from a suitable vessel for the purpose of physical and chemic…
What the supplier must deliver
Through this programme, Cefas provide authoritative scientific
Through this programme, Cefas provide authoritative scientific information on the marine and transitional waters in the vicinity of potential new build nuclear power stations and require the Supplier to deliver the marine sampling, profiling, and laboratory analysis services described in Section 3 below.
The survey schedule will be agreed prior
The survey schedule will be agreed prior to the survey but should be planned to maximise efficiency.
At least one month prior to
At least one month prior to the first survey start date, the supplier will provide a RAMS including a description of the acquisition, storage and shipping, and laboratory analysis requirements of each of the samples.
It is anticipated that this will
It is anticipated that this will be informed by the analysing laboratory but must be agreed by the Cefas team prior to the survey.
This process will continue throughout the day
This process will continue throughout the day with the aim of gathering as many samples as possible (nominally every hour) within one 12-hour period (time spent on site should be maximised by choosing an appropriate harbour to work from).
Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.
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