Awarded contract

In Service Support of Queen Elizabeth Class Integrated Navigation and Bridge Systems, and In Service Support for VM250 Radar, Astute Ships Inertial Navigation System, MK39 Gyroscope across Multiple Naval Platforms - Contract Award Notice

Details

Value
£20,493,674
Duration
10 years
Topic
Repair and maintenance services of warships
Published
15 May 2025

Tender description

Contract Award Notice published for reasons of transparency only. The Ministry of Defence has awarded a Single Source Qualifying Defence Contract to Northrop Grumman UK Ltd for In Service Support of Queen Elizabeth Class Integrated Navigation and Bridge Systems, and In Service Support for VM250 Radar, Astute Ships Inertial Navigation System, MK39 Gyroscope across Multiple Naval Platforms (QEC INBS). The Contract will include in service core support of the INBS Equipment and Legacy equipment. The in-service support includes safety management, spares provision, systems repairs, a range of supplementary support tasks and technical support.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date1 April 2025
  2. Completed: Award published15 May 2025
    Current notice
  3. Next: Contract expiry date31 March 2035in 9 years

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

  • 50640000 · Repair and maintenance services of warships

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