In 2008, BIM launched its inshore survey vessel MV T.Burke which has been offering survey services to various stakeholders in aquaculture and inshore fisheries all around the coast of Ireland.

The main task of the vessel is to identify seed mussel beds around the coast of Ireland using various sampling equipment and sonar systems but it has been involved in inshore diving operations, sites prosecutions, underwater videos surveys, various shellfish stock assessment as well as support-vessel for various events.

The demand for all those tasks has increased over the past few years and our current vessel has proven to be too small and too slow to answer such a demand. Currently, the vessel is spending between 70 and 85 days working including transfer from one part of the coast to another.

In order to continue and improve such services, it was decided to look for an upgrade.

In 2008, BIM launched its inshore survey vessel MV T.Burke which has been offering survey services to various stakeholders in aquaculture and inshore fisheries all around the coast of Ireland.

The main task of the vessel is to identify seed mussel beds around the coast of Ireland using various sampling equipment and sonar systems but it has been involved in inshore diving operations, sites prosecutions, underwater videos surveys, various shellfish stock assessment as well as support-vessel for various events.

The demand for all those tasks has increased over the past few years and our current vessel has proven to be too small and too slow to answer such a demand. Currently, the vessel is spending between 70 and 85 days working including transfer from one part of the coast to another. In order to continue and improve such services, it was decided to look for an upgrade.

BIM now invites tenders for the provision of the Design and the build of a 12-meter survey vessel. A detailed specification of requirements is set out in Section 2 of this document.