What the buyer wrote
To undertake Trials and Evaluation (T&E) to de-risk underwater autonomy and demonstrate military utility through payload tests. CETUS will be the UK’s largest military Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV), which is a new experimental vessel, originally intended to be Navy operated however now planned as Commercially operated within a GOCONO model. CETUS will support the Navy operation with deep maintenance and payload operation.
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Details
- What the buyer calls it
- CETUS Trials and Evaluation
- How they are buying
- Given to one supplier, no competitionNobody else was asked, and the buyer has to be able to justify that.
- Work starts
- 29 Jun 2025
- Work ends
- 29 May 2026
- Where
- in the South West
- Kind of work
- Research, evaluation and insight
Who the buyer named
Emma Moore was the named contact on this notice.