Research vessel services

Tender description

The Institute wishes to engage a suitably qualified and experienced shipyard to build, construct, outfit, test and deliver a research vessel (approx. 50-55 m length). The vessel will be designed and built to meet the requirement of the ICES cooperative research report No 209 in terms of vessel underwater radiated noise. The vessel is to be a multipurpose research vessel to meet the survey requirements of the Institute including (but not limited to) offshore fisheries surveys (demersal and pelagic trawling and acoustic surveys), oceanographic surveys, hydrographic surveys and underwater TV surveys as well as acting as an ROV platform. The Institute wishes to engage a suitably qualified and experienced shipyard to build, construct, outfit, test and deliver a research vessel (approx. 50-55m length). The vessel will be designed and built to meet the requirement of the ICES cooperative research report No 209 in terms of vessel underwater radiated noise. The vessel is to be a multipurpose research vessel to meet the survey requirements of the Institute including (but not limited to) offshore fisheries surveys (demersal and pelagic trawling and acoustic surveys), oceanographic surveys, hydrographic surveys and underwater TV surveys as well as acting as an ROV platform.