Awarded contract

TWI Corporate Membership 2025-2026

Details

Buyer: Ministry of Defence
Supplier(s): TWI Ltd
Value: £133,406
Duration: 2 years
Topic: Membership organisation services
Published: 7 May 2025
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

The Welding Institute (TWI) is a professional engineering institution supporting skills development in the fields of welding, joining and allied technologies. The Submarine Delivery Agency intends to award a contract to TWI for the continuation and access of this industrial membership for a duration of two years, commencing April 2025 – Mar 2026. As a member of TWI, SDA will benefit from access to powerful collaborative research that promotes advancement of the science and practice of welding, joining and allied processes allowing safer operations. TWI membership provides us with an exclusive package of specialist skills expertise and tools to support workforce development, increased professionalism, competence, and benchmarking. Along with access to specialist courses and solutions at discounted rates. TWI membership provides for access to the world’s largest array of welding and joining information via their website, archives, and library. Whilst benefits of Technical Memberships are specific to individual organisations, typically including one or more of: Reduced cost for bespoke products and services (inc. training): Inclusive packages of technical support: Facilitated networking with relevant external communities: Access to bespoke data and information: Opportunities for, and explicit recognition of, MoD's contribution to wider technical initiatives and its related competence (with associated reputational enhancement): Access to other related sectors of industry of value to defence. The impact of not subscribing to this initiative would be to miss out on recruitment opportunities, Working Group insight and innovation input, career development, networking and collaboration opportunities and progression of SDA engineering, science, and technology objectives. ## Contract award Title: TWI Corporate Membership 2025-2026

Timeline

Completed: Award date5 May 2025
Completed: Award published7 May 2025
Current notice
Next: Contract expiry date31 March 2027in 6 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

98100000 · Membership organisation services

Decision makers

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