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EOI - Consultancy Services for Research and Technology Development
DBMNE0530
Closing Date: 29 Aug 2025 05:00 PM
Debmarine Namibia, a joint venture marine diamond prospecting and recovery Company, owned in equal shares by the Government of the Republic of Namibia and De Beers, operates in the offshore Atlantic 1 Mining License area off the southern coast of Namibia at shallow water depths ranging from 80 - 140m. As part of the Company’s strategic objective to enhance its Research and Technology Development capabilities, Debmarine Namibia invites expressions of interests from suitably qualified consultants and/or institutions to develop tailor-made technical and technological solutions across one or more defined research domains over the coming years, as follows:
- Sub-sea visualisation systems
- Sub-sea sampling systems
- Sub-sea diamond recovery systems
- Treatment plant systems for diamond recovery
- Ability to identify, investigate and propose mining rate and efficiency improvements concepts on current systems.
- On-going support through monitoring of sampling and production parameters to identify potential operational enhancements, causes of anomalous performances and improvement opportunities in current and future geology.
The consultants and/or institutions will be required to mature technology along part of and/or along the entire technology development path as described below:
- Basic Principle Investigation
- Conceptual Designs / Market Scans
- Experimental Scale Testing / Analytical Modelling
- Technology Demonstrations (Minimum Viable Product Demonstrations)
- Full Scale Mine Test Unit Development and Testing
- Industrialised Solution Development
- Commissioning and Operational Support
