Purchase & Installation of Trawl Monitoring System

Buyer
Scottish Government
Value
£100,000
Closes
9 December 2026
Where
Aberdeen, Scotland
Type
Open tender

In plain English

The Scottish Government's Marine Directorate wants to buy and fit a new underwater acoustic system that monitors fishing trawl nets in real time. It will replace the existing Scanmar system on their research vessel, the Scotia. The estimated value is about £100,000.

What the buyer wants

• Supply a real-time, through-water acoustic trawl monitoring system • Install the system on the Marine Research Vessel (MRV) Scotia • Replace the existing Scanmar trawl monitoring system

Requirements

What could rule a small business out: The notice sets out no explicit requirements that would rule out small businesses, but the equipment is specialised marine monitoring technology, so most firms without experience supplying and fitting this kind of system on a research vessel are unlikely to be competitive.

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