National Shipbuilding Office

📢 📢 Calling all #innovative shipbuilding enterprise businesses in the #SouthWest.   ℹ UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £3 million for business led projects that grow their innovation activities in the marine and maritime cluster in the Great South West. This funding is from Innovate UK. The projects must focus on one or more of the following: ✅ Marine Autonomy ✅ Clean Maritime ✅ Digital Ocean Technologies https://lnkd.in/et_Qffgj The competition launches on the 2nd of September, make sure you are ready by signing up to the briefing session here: https://lnkd.in/e-JTnbpe ℹ The National Shipbuilding Office wants to provide industry with a greater awareness of the government financing that is available. See below the key websites to find government finance and support for your business: England & Wales: https://lnkd.in/gcmRTtP  Scotland - https://lnkd.in/ew8vqbMT   & https://lnkd.in/dZJP9UG  Northern Ireland - https://lnkd.in/dCvFYmG  🖋 Sign up to get tailored email notifications of new financing schemes, https://lnkd.in/eFTcCQZd Society of Maritime Industries (SMI) Maritime UK National Maritime

🛥 The National Shipbuilding Office were at Seawork in June engaging with the stakeholders from across the commercial marine and #workboat sector.   ℹ There was great engagement with the government stand across all three days of the show, including a visit from the Princess Royal. The NSO, Royal Navy, Department for Business and Trade, Defence and Security Accelerator, UK Export Finance and Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) met with an array of stakeholders from across the industry, highlighting available #funding and how to work with government.   ✅ 1-1 meetings with Seawork exhibitors were the highest so far as the team were out and about visiting company stands, observing the incredible levels of #innovation from across the sector.    🛠 The Thursday of Seawork saw the #training & #careers event take place with over 280 students. The NSO organised for Stephen G Shaw MSC MBA BEd QTLS FSET and the #legomaritime project to attend the event, with his hands on Lego shipbuilding and coding training, students teachers and even industry experts were engaged designing, building and coding a variety of vessels. Maritime UK Solent Lorna Wagner Society of Maritime Industries (SMI) Maritime UK

📢 ALERT: Government procurement opportunities   ℹ The National Shipbuilding Office is keen to raise awareness of the many government #procurement opportunities for the #shipbuilding enterprise. Please share with your networks.   ✅ Please click through the links to find out more about each #opportunity, there are contact details within each link but do also reach out to the NSO for further assistance.   Small Survey Vessel & Trailer, Scottish Environment Protection Agency – Prior Information Notice - https://lnkd.in/eGqWs6yA SEPA is conducting a market assessment to gain an understanding of the potential level of interest, available options, timescales and estimated costings for the supply of a small survey vessel & trailer.   Tamar Crossings - Fabrication, Structural Repairs & Maintenance Support Contract, – Cornwall Council – contract notice – closes 2 Aug 24 - https://lnkd.in/e4N86EwD Provision of various steelwork fabrications, structural repairs and associated maintenance support services at the Tamar Bridge and Torpoint Ferry. Futures Afloat – Trinity House – Prior Information Notice - https://lnkd.in/edJ5tj3e Futures Afloat is a project that includes the replacement of Trinity House’s ageing multi-functional buoy handling tenders (MFTs). the scope of this procurement includes the construction of modern multi-function buoy handling tenders that will replace THV Patricia as a priority and subsequently THV Galatea.    Spare Parts for Bow and Stern Thrusters for MPV Jura, Scottish Government - contract notice – closes 19 Jul - https://lnkd.in/eJMb3UrD The Scottish Ministers wishes to order appropriate spare parts so that it can overhaul the thrusters of the MPV Jura during its next refit

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✅ Babcock International Group has been selected by Saab to support the design for the development of the Swedish Navy’s new Luleå-class Surface Combatant. ℹ During a visit to Babcock’s Rosyth facility in Scotland, senior representatives from the Swedish Navy, UK Royal Navy, FMV, Saab and Babcock met to mark the beginning of the ambitious new collaboration in naval programme delivery, which follows the Strategic Cooperation Agreement signed by Saab and Babcock at DSEI in September 2023.   RAdm Rex said: "It was great to witness the signing of a cooperation agreement between Babcock and Saab to support the design of Future Surface Combatants for the Royal Swedish Navy and to meet some of the team delivering the #Type31"

📢 📢 ALERT: Live government #procurement opportunities for the shipbuilding enterprise   Click the links to find out more about each #opportunity. There are contact details within each link but do reach out to the National Shipbuilding Office for assistance. Please do share with your networks if relevant.   ✅ Supply, installation and commissioning (including delivery) of 2 data acquisition and monitoring systems for tugs Tystie and Dunter – Shetland Islands Council – contract notice – closes 14 Jun, https://lnkd.in/eKyiTUXv ✅ Provision of Relief Vessel to Cover Annual Dry Docking – Argyll & Bute Council – Prior Information Notice, https://lnkd.in/esieukZb ✅ Manufacture, Supply and Install LNG Liquid and Gas phase pipework on Vessel 802 – Ferguson Marine Ltd – contract notice – closes 6 Jun, https://lnkd.in/eeWVGuum ✅ 1011 Dorset Police Launch – contract notice – closes 5 Jun, https://lnkd.in/e-hV4F_e ✅ CPV - Ships Life Extension Programme – Home Office – contract notice – closes 7 Jun, https://lnkd.in/eDUn_dKN Society of Maritime Industries (SMI) Maritime UK National Maritime

👏 Saturday was international day for #WomeninMaritime, a day to celebrate all the women working across the UK shipbuilding enterprise ℹ The National Shipbuilding Office attended a fantastic International Day for Women in Maritime event organised by the Royal Navy and Maritime UK at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, our NSO attendees found the day incredibly insightful. Thanks to Sharon Jones for organising.

📣 Today Defence Secretary and #ShipbuildingTsar Grant Shapps has hailed a new ‘Golden age for British Shipbuilding’. Speaking at the annual Sea Power Conference in London, the Defence Secretary announced that up to six new state-of-the-art Multi-role Support Ships (MRSS) warships will be built in the #UK to strengthen Royal Marines special operations.    ✅ The announcement means that there are now up to 28 warships and submarines planned or in build to benefit the Royal Navy.   ℹ The Defence Secretary also announced that #type23 frigates HMS Argyll and HMS Westminster, that have a combined service of 63 years, will be retired. HMS Argyll will be sold to BAE Systems and will be used within the UK’s vibrant shipbuilding sector, supporting apprentice training in line with the refreshed National Shipbuilding Strategy’s ambition to lower the #skills gap across the shipbuilding enterprise and increase shipbuilding capacity. Council on Geostrategy Society of Maritime Industries (SMI)

✅ The National Shipbuilding Office were visiting BAE Systems in Govan last week.   🤝 The team were updated on progress of the #Type26 programme and BAE Systems Maritime significant recent investment in facilities. The NSO and BAE Systems continued to build on a close relationship between teams as they discussed the challenges and opportunities currently facing the enterprise.   ℹ BAE Systems Maritime is the largest #shipbuilding company in the UK, one of the largest in Europe, and one of the world's largest builders of complex warships. They employee around 4,500 people, plus a further 1,000 contractors, across its two sites on the Clyde and a further five locations in the South of England.   👉 The Type 26 programme is the most advanced and complex #warship ever built in the UK. BAE Systems Maritime is making significant progress on the build of the first four Type 26 frigates for the Royal Navy. The contract sustains more than 4,000 jobs across BAE Systems and the wider UK maritime #supplychain. Up to £1.8bn of the new order will be spent in the supply chain, including £1.2bn with UK suppliers.   💸 The Government’s commitment to UK Shipbuilding through the Refreshed National Shipbuilding Strategy and shipbuilding pipeline has allowed industry to invest for the future. BAE Systems have made significant new investments in facilities including a new state of the art Ship Build Hall in Govan, built by McLaughlin & Harvey Ltd, as well as a £12m Applied Shipbuilding Skills Academy in Scotstoun which will provide bespoke training to its employees, including nearly 700 apprentices.   #Skills #UKShipbuilding

👏 Rex Cox and the National Shipbuilding Office are delighted to congratulate Paul Sheerin on becoming chair of the newly launched shipbuilding Skills Delivery Group, announced yesterday by Grant Shapps in his role as Shipbuilding Tsar.   👉 The shipbuilding Skills Delivery Group will drive the delivery of the UK Shipbuilding Skills Taskforce recommendations and will be a champion for #skills within the UK Shipbuilding Enterprise   📢 Paul Sheerin "I have observed first-hand the impact of a skills gap on the productivity, levels of innovation and competitiveness of a sector, and can see the positive impact a linked-up government and industry approach can have on addressing that gap.   "It is critical for the UK shipbuilding enterprise that the skills gap is addressed, and to ensure that this can happen there needs to be a unified approach across different skills systems, across different parts of the enterprise and across government and the devolved administrations. My aim is that the shipbuilding Skills Delivery Group (SDG) can play that vital role of unifying an approach to skills across the enterprise.    "The UK Shipbuilding Skills Taskforce Report led by Paul Little was the first step in achieving the longer-term aim of reducing the skills shortage in the sector. The shipbuilding Skills Delivery Group will continue to be the champion for skills across the whole enterprise, focussing on delivering on the intent of the UKSST Report with tangible outcomes that bring new talent to the sector whilst retaining and up-skilling existing talent.   "I am extremely excited and proud to chair the SDG, working alongside a highly knowledgeable and experienced membership comprised of representatives from across the whole enterprise. With the continued support of the Shipbuilding Tsar Grant Shapps and the National Shipbuilding Office, I look forward to working with the Group to deliver a positive impact on skills within this vital sector to the UK."     Scottish Engineering #shipbuildingskills #skillsdeliverygroup