Number: 8167604
Country: United Kingdom
Source: TED
UK SBS PR17092 Design, Construction and Pre-deployment Testing of Seabed CO2 Gas Pipe Positioning rig
Tenders are invited for the design, construction and pre-deployment testing of a rig that can be deployed from a research vessel to the seabed in c.120 m depth in the North Sea. The rig will form part of a suite of instrumentation required to support the EU Horizon 2020 project “Strategies for Environmental Monitoring of Marine Carbon Capture and Storage” (STEMM-CCS) that is to be carried out in the North Sea during 2017 to 2019, and will specifically enable the controlled release of CO2 gas from a point 3 m below the seabed.
National Oceanography Centre.
European Way.
Southampton.
SO14 3ZH.
United Kingdom.
The Natural Environment Research Council, as the Contracting Authority, are putting into place a contract for the purchase of the Design, Construction and Pre-deployment Testing of Seabed CO2 Gas Pipe Positioning rig.
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(i) not to award any contract as a result of the Procurement process commenced by publication of This notice; and
(ii) to make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and structure of the procurement; and in no circumstances will the Contracting Authority be liable for any costs incurred by any Supplier if the Contracting Authority decides to enter into a Contract with the successful supplier, this does not mean that there is any guarantee of subsequent Contracts being awarded.
Any expenditure, work or effort undertaken prior to Contract award is accordingly a matter solely for the commercial judgement of Bidders.
