Contract for the Provision of ROV Support Vessel

The Remote Systems & ROV Division Management Committee and Contracts Workgroup of the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) working with Stronachs Solicitors of Aberdeen, have prepared the recently published "Contract for the Provision of ROV, Support Vessel and Associated Work". Building on industry standards, the template contract has been developed to facilitate contracting between IMCA members and their clients.

"Many contractors provide services from a vessel which they do not own but have hired from the market," explains IMCA's chief executive, Hugh Williams. "The terms of hire are often the BIMCO Supplytime 89 uniform time charter party for offshore services vessels. The newly drawn up contract document enables contractors to pass on these vessel terms to their client and add in the terms for ROV, or associated, services. It is purely guidance; each IMCA member company is, of course, free to enter into whatever contracts it deems to be in its own interests."

Copies of the new contract (IMCA R 013) are available for members and for non-members online.