Awarded contract

IRM23/7645 The Repair and Calibration of Optical and Fibre Optic Equipment

Details

Supplier(s)
Optical Test and Calibration Limited
Value
£860,970
Duration
3 years
Topic
Calibration services
Published
8 August 2024

Tender description

This notice has been published to meet transparency requirements and is not a request for expression of interest. Therefore please do not apply to be invited to tender. Babcock Land Defence Limited acting as the UK Ministry of Defence's agent, awarded a single source contract with Optical Test and Calibration Limited for the Repair and Calibration of Optical and Fibre Optic Equipment. It is considered that this contract can be placed using the negotiated procedure without prior publication pursuant to Regulation 16(1)(a)(i) of the Defence and Security Public Contract Regulations 2011 due to a failed competition caused by the absence of suitable responses to Lot 5 of the previous restricted procedure reference 2023/S 000-014611. The framework agreement has a duration of three (3) years. This notice is not a request for expressions of interest so please do not apply to be invited to tender.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date17 July 2024
  2. Completed: Award published8 August 2024
    Current notice
  3. Next: Contract expiry date16 July 2027in 9 months

About the buyer

The Ministry of Defence is a ministerial department that runs its acquisition and procurement activity through a dedicated commercial function, led by the Director Commercial. Defence Equipment & Support buys, supports and supplies equipment such as jets, warships and armoured vehicles for the armed forces. The Defence Infrastructure Organisation plans, builds and maintains the defence estate separately from equipment procurement. Suppliers can register on the Defence Sourcing Portal, the department's end-to-end eProcurement system for contract opportunities. Many purchasing agreements sit on the MOD Framework Library, its central list of framework routes to market.

Procurement spend from central entities makes up 66% of overall UK public spend.

Over the past 5 years, most of the Ministry of Defence's contract awards have been in IT services, architectural and engineering services and repair and maintenance.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 50433000 · Calibration services

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