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The provision of Ocean Bottom Seismograph (OBS)

Details

Buyer
University of Plymouth
Supplier(s)
Ocean-Bottom Instrumentation Consortium
Value
£408,296
Duration
1 year
Topic
Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)
Published
4 September 2026
Source
uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

The University of Plymouth requires the provision of Ocean Bottom Seismographs (OBS), associated equipment, and specialist operational and technical support services to support the ACE Project in Antarctica. The requirement includes the mobilisation, deployment, recovery and management of six OBS units for a long-term marine geophysical research programme, together with specialist expertise in experimental planning, design, implementation and data acquisition. Funding relevant to this notice benefits from European Research Council (ERC) grant funding under Project 101169829 - Antarctic Canyon Experiment (ACE) ## Contract award Title: The provision of Ocean Bottom Seismograph (OBS) ## Contract award

Timeline

  1. Award date1 September 2026
  2. Award published4 September 2026
    Current notice
  3. Contract expiry date30 September 2027in 11 months

About the buyer

University of Plymouth is a higher education institution with its own procurement team based at Drake Circus. Membership of the Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium gives access to shared higher education framework agreements. Suppliers are chosen through competitive tendering, or through quotations for lower-value purchases. No approved supplier list exists, only individual contracts and framework arrangements.

Over the past 5 years, most of University of Plymouth's contract awards have been in business services, software and information systems and electrical equipment and lighting.

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