Joint Maritime Security Centre Mobile Maritime Domain Awareness Service

Maritime security is a key enabler to UK, Crown Dependency, and British Overseas Territories Security. The Joint Maritime Security Centre (JMSC) provides Maritime Domain Awareness data to UK Government stakeholders to support delivery of security and regulatory enforcement activities.

The MDA provision is comprised of multiple layers of data from a variety of sources. This procurement exercise seeks to enhance the MDA to better support operational services by procuring the provision of a scalable, mobile, digital outcome that is capable of delivering streamed “Tracks as a Service” (TKaaS) in Near Real-time (NRT).

The data stream will be provided to the Royal Navy Maritime Domain Awareness Programme (MDAP) via an Application Planning Interface (API). This will include data from land based and Beyond Visual Line of Sight sources (BVLOS) operating in the 4 nations of the UK, the Crown Dependencies, and BOT, with the flexibility to respond to short notice operational requirements.

These tracks should incorporate Automatic Identification System (AIS) detection, radar, and Electro Optical (EO)/Infra-Red (IR) detection – all correlated to enhance non-cooperative vessel detection. A separate portal shall be made available by the supplier to view the camera data and provide an alternative display of tracks and any alerts.

The service is to provide maritime tracks from selected areas to JMSC. Suppliers will be responsible for owning, siting, installing, securing, and operating any hardware in the UK or overseas.

The current operational tempo assumes a requirement for 24/7/365 service availability. Suppliers will need to ensure the system is supported with sufficient personnel and process to resolve any issues to ensure system availability (between 99.5 – 99.9%).

The Supplier solution must : Respond to JMSC tasking and provide persistent maritime surveillance of an Area of Interest (AOI) within the UK marine area (and UK Overseas/Dependent Territories). Provide active surveillance feeds at a minimum of 24 concurrent AOIs around the UK coast delivering tracks as a service.

Provide services that will enable/assist in the detection of both cooperative and non-cooperative-reporting vessels typically within UK Territorial Waters (TTWs). The solution primarily covers the UK, territorial waters, and BOTs when required.

Currently 4 BOTs are receiving improved maritime awareness services. This solution will need to respond to any emerging areas of interest both in the UK and BOT.

The potential length of this contract will be 3 to 5 years in total (including any extension periods), with an estimated total value of up to c£69 million if the contract is awarded for 5 years. However, the Authority is seeking to ensure that an increase or decrease in contract capability is available, should the future demand change.

A contingency of approximately £20 million (over 5 years) is built into the estimated contract value but there is no guarantee that this will be needed or used. The content of this PIN, including the nature of works, services and estimated value, may be subject to change.