Tender Results of Cefas

CEFAS24-85 Contract for Micro Focus Content Manager Licences-Micro Focus Content Manager Licences

CEFAS24-01 Contract for services for assistant laboratory technician to support the Department of the Environment Water and Wastewater Laboratory in Belize under the Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP)-OCPP and The Government of Belize have identified the need to provide training to the Department of the Environment (DOE) laboratory staff to ensure the DOE can continue to fulfill its statutory duties for water quality and pollution monitoring and to meet emerging challenges. A laboratory technician is required to provide temporary expert services to the DOE for 18 months, Monday - Friday, 08:00 - 17:00, days may vary for fieldwork and allowance will be available for some overtime each calen...

CEFAS24-06 Contract for Sabellaria spp. monitoring surveys with an ARIS Camera-Background: The Sizewell BEEMS (British EDF Estuarine and Marine Studies) programme is funded by Sizewell C Limited (SZC). Through this programme, Cefas provide authoritative scientific information on the marine and transitional waters in the vicinity of the consented SZC new build nuclear power station and require a competent supplier to deliver the element described below. Overview of Requirement: Cefas require a supplier to conduct a subtidal Adaptive Resolution Imaging Sonar (ARIS) ...

CEFAS24-29 Contract for services for whole genome sequencing of Streptococcus agalactiae serotypes in Indian aquatic systems under the Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP)-The Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP) is funded through official development assistance (ODA) as part of the UK's £500 million Blue Planet Fund. Through the OCPP, the UK government partners with ODA-eligible countries to deliver tangible and positive impacts on the livelihoods of coastal communities that depend on healthy marine ecosystems. Under the sustainable seafood objective, the programme supports the development of the skills and expertise needed to adopt sustainable...

CEFAS24-54 Contract for installation of Remote Electronic Monitoring (REM) equipment on 119m large pelagic vessel-In the summer of 2023, the UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) released a consultation on the wider use of Remote Electronic Monitoring (REM) on fishing vessels in English Waters (Remote electronic monitoring - Defra - Citizen Space). This consultation outlined a number of "priority fisheries", the first of which being pelagic vessels over 24m in length. The consultation also proposed a multi-stage approach, starting with a voluntary early adopter phase. Fol...

CEFAS24-44 Contract for pollack population size study-Following the recent Defra announcement of a scientific assessment to understand more about the stock structure and abundance of Pollack, the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) invited commercial fishers to register their interest in joining a study using genetic tools to estimate the population size of pollack in the western English Channel (ICES subdivision 7.e.) The study will be delivered in collaboration with commercial pollack fishing specialists (i.e. fis...

CEFAS24-46 Contract for technical advisory services on Potentially Polluting Wrecks (PPW) in Solomon Islands under the Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP)-The Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP) is funded through UK official development assistance (ODA) as part of the UKs Blue Planet Fund. It aims to strengthen marine science expertise, develop science-based policy and management tools, and create educational resources for coastal communities under three main objectives described in terms of marine pollution, sustainable seafood, and marine biodiversity. Oil pollution from World War II (WWII) potentially polluting wrecks (PPW) threatens ...

CEFAS24-41 Contract to provide analysis and data to support development and validation of a model of macroalgal seagrass and saltmarsh growth-Background: The Marine Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment (mNCEA) programme is a flagship science innovation programme that is addressing integrating natural capital and ecosystem assessment approaches into policy and decision making for marine and coastal environments. Ecosystem assessment tells us about the health of our natural environment and how this is changing over time, whereas natural capital describes the economic, social and environmental value our natural assets hold for peo...

CEFAS24-28 Contract for BEEMS Bathymetric and Bank Surveys Sizewell Suffolk-The BEEMS (British Energy Estuarine and Marine Studies) programme is funded by Sizewell C 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. The purpose of this procurement is to provide bathymetric data for the Greater Sizewell Bay (GSB) to assess the geomorphological changes of the region, hence contributing to the ongoing monitoring of the Sizewell Coastline...

CEFAS23-147 Contract for a smartphone app for UKOT MPA wildlife sightings-The Blue Belt Programme require the supplier to create a Smartphone application to assist the UK Overseas Territories (OT) to record sightings of marine wildlife, pollution and other things which may be of interest to the OT Government. It is envisaged that the App will contain some information for visitors of the MPA including text on the creation of the MPA, images and text on the key species and habitats and on some of the threats to the MPA. The supplier is required to develop a Smartphon...