Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2022-05-18
Buyer: Swansea University
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 34930000 | 38000000 | 38651000
Estimated value: 500000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2022-06-14
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: ERDF

Technical requirements: The Marine Energy Engineering Centre of Excellence (MEECE) has been part funded by the European Regional Development Fund through the Welsh Government and the participating Higher Education Institutions and by the Swansea Bay Region City Deal.MEECE will provide specialist knowledge, experience and capability for the benefit of the marine energy industry and is delivered by ORE Catapult and four universities. MEECE will provide a centre for collaboration through coordinated, joint-industry / cross-industry approaches, whilst disseminating lessons learned for future projects and improving industry productivity and effectiveness. MEECE will bring the expertise and capabilities of Welsh universities, and of the ORE Catapult, into direct contact with technology developers and their supply chains, supporting more innovation, and capturing and embedding that innovation in Wales. It will be based in Pembroke Port with research staff within the university research teams. This equipment supports a range of projects in the areas of Marine Energy and Coastal Engineering. This directly supports fundamental and applied research in decarbonisation through clean, affordable and secure energy. Prediction and mitigation of coastal change (including sea level rise and extreme events) is a consequence of the climate emergency. The creation of jobs in marine energy and the associated supply chain supports the blue economy.
For accurate reading of velocity and turbulence at a point close to the instrument within the Swansea University wave flume and other laboratory environments, purchase of velocity measurement systems with a smaller measurement head. This could be Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter or an alternative technology with the same accuracy. As these are laboratory instruments, there is no requirement to be fully waterproof.
As an alternative, please provide optional pricing for a “profiling” measurement of flow in the boundary layer.
European Regional Development Fund through the Welsh  Government and the participating Higher Education Institutions and by the  Swansea Bay Region City Deal.
Tidal performance measurement requires a good understanding of the flow field through the water column. Stand-alone self-recording field instruments are required for both velocity and turbulence measurements. ADCPs will be supplied with seabed frames and moorings suitable for high flow rate environments.
European Regional Development Fund through the Welsh  Government and the participating Higher Education Institutions and by the Swansea Bay Region City Deal.
Stand-alone self-recording field instruments are required for accurate reading of velocity and turbulence at a point close to the instrument, in 3 dimensions at high sample rate.
European Regional Development Fund through the Welsh  Government and the participating Higher Education Institutions and by the  Swansea Bay Region City Deal.
Measurement of flow from a surface floating ADCP unit, the float should contain GPS and orientation measurement to accurately locate the measurement point. Stand-alone self recording field instruments are required for both velocity and turbulence measurements.
European Regional Development Fund through the Welsh  Government and the participating Higher Education Institutions and by the  Swansea Bay Region City Deal.
The Coastal Engineering Laboratory of the College of Engineering heavily contributes to marine renewable energy research and development by testing scale models of new, innovative marine energy devices and support infrastructure such as underwater cables. The laboratory is equipped with state-of-the art wave channel, capacitance type wave gauges, Particle Imaging Velocimeter, a Laser Doppler Velocimeter and a bed profiler.
However, the laboratory lacks the capacity to measure forces on marine energy devices, which is an essential component of marine energy device and infrastructure testing. We will purchase inertial measurement units to track movements and acceleration.
European Regional Development Fund through the Welsh  Government and the participating Higher Education Institutions and by the  Swansea Bay Region City Deal.
This device will expand the equipment available in the fluid labs for undergraduate and postgraduate students research for small experiments including waves and currents. The wave paddle will be included in the Armfield S6-MKIII Glass Sided Tilting current flume (cross section 300mm wide x 450mm max depth) available in the fluid laboratory (flow rate 38 l/s max). This laboratory lacks the capacity to measure waves in the flume, which is an essential component of some of the modules in the Faculty of Science and engineering. We will add this device to the pre-existent current flume available in the fluid lab.
European Regional Development Fund through the Welsh  Government and the participating Higher Education Institutions and by the  Swansea Bay Region City Deal.


Award value: 500000