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Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult

UK SOV Manufacture Business Case Development - ORE/24/101

R&DCPV 73200000 50241000 50242000 50244000 50245000
Value£195k
Awarded14 Feb 2025
Published26 Mar 2025
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£195ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£561k

This is a large award for Research & Development — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 20,405 valued Research & Development tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The offshore wind industry is growing rapidly, with over 850GW of capacity expected to be installed globally by 2050.

This is underpinned by global commitments to reduce carbon emissions and by improving the cost efficiency of wind as an energy source.\r In line with this rapid expansion, the number of vessels required to support offshore wind developments throughout their operational life will also require major growth.

Here at ORE Catapult, we have conducted analysis to determine the size of the market for operations and maintenance (O&M) vessels, based on global installed capacity targets.

Up to 2050, strategies centred on Crew Transfer Vessels (CTVs) and Service Operation Vessels (SOVs) are expected to be employed.

Globally, this could equate to up to 2325 CTVs and 423 SOVs in operation by 2050. \r This presents a huge opportunity for UK Shipbuilding, however, none of the UK's currently operating SOVs have been built in the UK.

This project aims to develop the business case for establishing this production.\r

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The offshore wind industry is growing rapidly

The offshore wind industry is growing rapidly, with over 850GW of capacity expected to be installed globally by 2050.

02

In line with this rapid expansion,

In line with this rapid expansion, the number of vessels required to support offshore wind developments throughout their operational life will also require major growth.

03

Up to 2050, strategies centred on Crew

Up to 2050, strategies centred on Crew Transfer Vessels (CTVs) and Service Operation Vessels (SOVs) are expected to be employed.

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Source & provenance
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Stage
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OREC001-DN758980-77774444
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