Antarctica New Zealand is seeking interest from an accommodation provider who is able to provide full accommodation, dedicated support staff willing to isolate on site (if required should local COVID alert levels change), food and related services to meet an anticipated 14-day managed isolation requirement, for up to 100 personnel across the months September 2020 to February 2021.

Personnel will isolate individually in their rooms for an initial period of six days and then after being tested COVID-free the intention is to have them move into a more communal “flight bubble” isolation. At this time, they could also dine and recreate together on site.

These personnel will be travelling to Antarctica from Christchurch and will all have been based in New Zealand or have gone through the Ministry of Health managed isolation before entering this managed isolation. Several deployments will take place between October and February, and the first isolation period will start mid-September.