Storage, Maintenance & Deployment Contract for HMCG Lot 1

Description

The scope of Lot 1 is to seek the services of a Service Provider to provide Incident Response & Support, Purchasing & Pricing, Training (Delivery of MCA Courses) Competency & Deployments, Logistical Incident Support and Reporting. Counter Pollution is one of His Majestys Coastguard (HMCG) Six Functions and the Counter Pollution and Salvage (CPS) branch operates as the UK Competent Authority with specific responsibility for Counter Pollution preparedness and responding to at-sea pollution from shipping and offshore installations within the UK Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), and the management of the UK Government's stockpiles of equipment and dispersant. CPS respond to national incidents; counter pollution audits of, and support to, all UK ports and harbours; management of national counter-pollution equipment; environmental support and Fate of Oil modelling, counter pollution training to local authorities. The Authority has since awarded this contract in scope of this notice, and the Service Provider shall provide storage of the MCAs equipment, to maintain it through a program of planned preventative maintenance and repairs as required, and to deploy the equipment in marine pollution incidents using trained and competent responders with experience in this industry.

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