Norway – Engineering services – ANSK-25-0612 Framework agreement engineering and machinery services ROV

Norwegian Marine Robotics Facility (NORMAR) at the University of Bergen currently operates a Coastal Design Supporter ROV (Ægir 6000) designed for deep sea research down to 6,000m water depths. The vessel includes a number of specially adapted equipment for sample taking and storage of sample material. As a part of an ongoing upgrade, test taking equipment and other specially adapted equipment for the ROV shall be improved and developed. We would like to achieve better and more varied sample taking equipment than we currently have. This is done in order to make the implementation of dives more efficient in order to save time and money. Furthermore, new types of sample takers will also be developed that can be used to answer other research questions and assist more research groups than we currently can. We need help with drawing, design and production for this. We do not currently have an engineering resource, nor the possibility to manufacture our own equipment. We therefore have a need to procure the service. It is a prerequisite that we enter into a contract with a tenderer who can offer both engineering services and machining and who can regularly come to the "Sea Laboratory" to measure and adapt. UiB has been granted funding to carry out upgrades of Ægir 6000 in the next three years and needs an agreement for this purpose.