# Hire and Design of 2x Deepwater Moorings capable of measuring turbidity currents

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED](/buyers/uk-shared-business-services-limited/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: ASL Environmental Sciences Inc
- Award value: £40,481
- Award date: 25 March 2018
- Published: 30 April 2018
- Contract start: 26 March 2018
- Contract end: 26 March 2019
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: goods
- Notice ID: 87d3c931-b5cd-4916-8fcc-9924eaa7710b-213561
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-6e283bc4-4cb1-4e47-a325-6ce742c2f7c8

## Description

We require the design and provision of 2 x deep-water moorings that are capable of making detailed measurements at 600 kHz of turbidity currents\. This includes ADCP, housing within syntactic buoy, provision of battery packs, deep-water acoustic release links, hydro dynamically efficient mooring wire and assembly of the entire mooring\. These must be capable of withstanding significant impacts by fast-moving flows \(up to 10 m/s\), maintaining stability \(taught wire and level buoy\), imaging their internal velocity and concentration structure at high temporal and depth-resolution, and to be retrieved at the end of the field deployment\. The supplier must be familiar with the monitoring of turbidity currents, design of moorings to withstand such conditions, the operations of the Canadian Geological Survey vessel that we are using \(RV Vector\) and be able to provide this equipment at short notice to the mobilisation port of Sidney in Victoria\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/87d3c931-b5cd-4916-8fcc-9924eaa7710b-213561)