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TED - Tenders Electronic Daily (Publications Office of the EU) verified 4 days ago Contract award

Ireland - Marine patrol vessels - Call-for-Tenders under accelerated open procedure for the supply, delivery commissioning and calibration of 3 Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

Awarded Ireland Eastern and Midland Transport equipment & vehicles

Buyer University College Cork

€243,167 awarded value

Key facts

Awarded
Estimated value
€245,000
Procedure
Open procedure
  1. Awarded
  2. Published
  3. Contract ends, estimated August 2027
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Awarded value
€243,167 1% under the estimate of the same lots
Award date
Bid received
1 A single tender
Winner's country
France
Back on the market
Aug 2027 How we know

When this contract comes back

estimated from the stated duration

This contract runs about 24 months, so it is back on the market around August 2027.

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Description

University College Cork is seeking to procure 3 micro-sized Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) capable of deployment from shore or vessel, and operable across a depth range of 1 to 300 meters. These AUVs will be used for high-resolution seafloor imaging, magnetic anomaly detection, and bathymetric mapping. The required payloads should include a high-quality underwater camera with integrated lighting, a fluxgate magnetometer, and a 3D side-scan sonar system. Accurate underwater positioning is essential, with systems offering absolute positioning accuracy of less than 5 meters via USBL acoustic tracking. The AUVs must be supplied with a complete USBL surface positioning system, spare parts, rugged transport cases, and mission planning software. Comprehensive aftersales support is required, including a minimum one-year warranty, training for operators, and access to maintenance tools and documentation. The supplier must also provide assistance with any export licensing and logistics. The proposed solution should be equipped with DVL and USBL modems, and have handheld recovery units and software for mission control and data retrieval. A handheld communication unit must be provide with an antenna that can communicate with the AUV up to 5 km.

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What this market pays

The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 363 awards for Transport equipment & vehicles in Ireland.

This award
€243,167
Estimated value
€245,000
Median award
€164,978
Middle half of past awards
€72,560 to €390,750

The award sits inside the usual range.

Award values as published by the official sources. Use them as a guide, not a rule: scope, lots and duration differ between contracts.

University College Cork

Ireland

notices in the register
526
awards
398
awarded in total
€158.3M

Who wins its contracts

Many suppliers
different companies won its awards
57
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
10%
winners of the last 12 months were new here
34 of 34
of its calls state an estimated value
100%

Based on 60 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners. New: no award from the same buyer or market in the two years before.

Competition

tenders per lot on average (open and restricted procedures)
4.1
of those lots received a single tender
33%
of the awards went to companies based in another country
41%

As the official award notices state them, over the last 3 years. Tenders per lot count open and restricted procedures only: in a negotiated procedure or a direct award a single tender is the procedure itself. The country is the one the notice gives for the winner.

One dot per award, on the day it was signed, sized by its value. A ring is an award with no published value.

Awards most often to

  1. Particular Sciences Limited 6 awards
  2. Mason Technology Ltd 4 awards €70,473
  3. Thermo Fisher Scientific 4 awards

3 open tenders right now

Market context

open now in Transport equipment & vehicles
6,275
median open notice
€330,000

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

Ireland · Transport equipment & vehicles

different companies won awards here
219
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
9%
winners of the last 12 months were new here
110 of 131
buyers awarded contracts here
101

Based on 308 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners. New: no award from the same buyer or market in the two years before.

Competition

tenders per lot on average (open and restricted procedures)
3.1
of those lots received a single tender
27%
of the awards went to companies based in another country
26%

As the official award notices state them, over the last 3 years. Tenders per lot count open and restricted procedures only: in a negotiated procedure or a direct award a single tender is the procedure itself. The country is the one the notice gives for the winner.

Procedure facts

  • A single tender was received (open procedure).

Facts that procurement researchers and journalists track across public records. None of them is evidence of wrongdoing: each has ordinary explanations, such as a specialised market, an urgent need or a short list of qualified suppliers.

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