Supplier Market Engagement Event for Provision of Satellite Surveillance Services to Marine Management Organisation

The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) would like to invite Suppliers to attend an online 'Market Engagement Event' via MS Teams for a MMO presentation on its work in supporting and assisting various countries and UK overseas territories in combatting illegal, unidentified and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

Following this market engagement event MMO will open an invite to all Suppliers to suggest solutions on how to meet this requirement so that MMO is better informed of market capabilities and possible alternatives to satellite supported data.

The Market Engagement Event shall be held on the morning Tuesday 30 January 2024 from 11.00 to 12.00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). MS Teams invite link will be sent after registration requests have been received.

To register on the Market Engagement Event please send Company Name, Contact Details and Email address to:

Alan.Green@Defra.Gov.uk cc'd to

Andrew.McCabe@marinemanagement.org.uk

No later than Noon (GMT) 25 January 2024.

Suppliers will have two weeks to send a written solution with a submission deadline of Noon (GMT) 12 February 2024. Submissions to be sent to above email addresses and must be on no more than 15 pages of A4 using Arial font 11.

Please note that registration at the event does not count as registration for the full procurement process, which will be separately advertised in first week of March 2024 via Find a Tender and Contract Finder websites. Interested Suppliers will need to respond to this when advertised, whether or not they attend the Market Engagement Event itself.

It is proposed that the Competitive Procedure with Negotiation shall be used for the tender exercise. MMO/Defra reserve the right not to exercise the negotiation option if necessary.

The contract is planned to start with effect from 1 August 2024. Though there will be a minimum two-week handover period prior to that date, if required.

The contract will be offered for a two-year period with the possibility of extension for another 3 x 12-month periods.

It is proposed that the contract will work on a call-off basis and will be on Department for Environment, Food and Rural affairs standard contract terms and conditions.

At present this requirement is met by a service reliant on a satellite derived data solution. Contract for this service expires 31 July 2024.

Details of the present contract 'Satellite Surveillance provider for the Blue Belt Surveillance and Intelligence Management Hub (BBSIH) - Assisting the uk Overseas Territories' was published on Contracts Finder under the reference tender_272000/989893, link: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/9612fa0e-5510-4d09-90dc-47c2fab11db0?origin=SearchResults&p=1

And on Find a Tender Service under ref 2021/S 000-020395, link: https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/020395-2021?origin=SearchResults&p=1