Tender Results of Scottish Government

Award of Replacement UPS & EBM for MPV Hirta’s IPMS (MS-P-0222)-Marine Scotland invites tenders for replacement UPS and EBM for MPV Hirta’s IPMS.The obsolete and faulty Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) and Extended Battery Module (EBM) for MPV Hirta’s VTAS Integrated Power Management System (IPMS) requires renewing with suitable and compatible marine grade units that are Class approved.Costing required for parts and labour to supply new units, removal of old units, installing, setting up and testing of new units.

Award of Overhaul of Stores Crane Winch on MRV Scotia (MS-P-0223)-The Scottish Ministers acting through Marine Scotland invites tenders for a contract to overhaul the winch on the MRV Scotia’s stores crane.

Award of Identification and Collation of Data Sets (MS-P-0234)-Marine Scotland invite bids for the identification and collation of spatial data sets.

Award of Purchase of Graphics Processing Unit and Support Contract (MS-P-0215)-Marine Scotland invites tenders for (i) the purchase of a new GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) compute node for machine learning applications and (ii) a two year support contract on our existing Marine Scotland High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster made up of Lenovo ThinkSystem servers.

Award of Provision of Service Contract for MiSeq Next Generation Sequencer (MS-P-0233)-Marine Scotland invite bids for the provision of a service contract for a MiSeq Next Generation Sequencer.The service contract is required to allow the MiSeq to run to optimal performance and reliability over the duration of the service agreement.The contract is to ensure that research projects that rely on the equipment are run to budget and on time.

Award of Echosounder Replacement for MPV Hirta (MS-P-0101)-Marine Scotland invites bids for an echosounder replacement on MPV Hirta.

Award of Scottish Government Interim Professional Staff Services Framework – Communications Manager-Marine Scotland wishes to engage an individual to manage, plan and deliver communications activity, with a particular focus on promoting our marine environment work, including on key activity in relation to marine protection, biodiversity, climate change and associated research and evidence.

Award of Purchase of Deionised Water System (MS-P-0220)-Marine Scotland is inviting tenders for the purchase of a deionised water system as we seek to relocate our laboratory.

Award of Water Safety Awareness Training (MS-P-0232)-Marine Scotland invite bids for training to allow staff to operate within these environments in a safe manner.Marine Scotland, Science Division have a requirement for their field working staff to undertake water safety awareness training and to be aware of the implications and techniques for working close by swiftwater (such as rivers and streams).Marine Scotland staff are based in Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen and Faskally House, Pitlochry.

Award of 0423H - Charter for Live fish capture of cod for FISP CodSELect aquarium trials-Marine Scotland invites tenders from suitable vessels to undertake live fish collection of cod when caught as bycatch from creels. The fish will be used in behavioural studies within Marine Scotland Sciences (MSS) Fish Behaviour Unit (FBU) as part of the CodSELect project funded through the Fisheries Industry Science Partnership (FISP) scheme. The CodSELect project aims to use artificial light to improve cod selectivity in North Sea Nephrops trawl gear and intends to carry out a number of aquari...