# Non-exclusive Administration of MCA Safety Assessments for Candidates

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [MCA - Maritime and Coastguard Agency](/buyers/mca-maritime-and-coastguard-agency/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MARITIME INSTITUTIONS
- Award value: £1
- Tender value: £1
- Award date: 19 February 2026
- Published: 18 March 2026
- Contract start: 4 December 2025
- Contract end: 31 August 2028
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: c50918f8-dc7e-4c54-98f4-fdf499d54592-889125
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-8786ec30-2b9c-47fc-b4a9-b8b5492abc49

## Description

Delivery of the non-exclusive administration of mandatory examinations for Officers in the Merchant Navy and Professional Yachting\. The examinations administered on behalf of the MCA as listed: - Officer of the Watch \(Yachts less than 3,000gt\) - Navigation and Radar\. - Officer of the Watch \(Yachts less than 3,000gt\) - General Ship Knowledge\. - Master \(Yachts\) - Seamanship and Meteorology\. - Master \(Yachts\) - Stability\. - Master \(Yachts\) - Business and Law\. - Master \(Yachts\) - Navigation, ARPA \(Automatic Radio Plotting Aid\) and Radar Simulator\. - Master \(Yachts\) - Celestial Navigation Master - Operations\. - General Science A - - General Science B - Control Engineering - Engineering Knowledge \(Motor\) - Engineering Knowledge \(Steam\) - - Engineering Knowledge \(General\) Additional information: FTS notice published: 2024/S 000-035353 Awarding as a negotiated procedure without prior publication under Regulation 32\(2\)\(b\)\(ii\) of the PCR 2015

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/c50918f8-dc7e-4c54-98f4-fdf499d54592-889125)