Legacy Red Black Blue and Marwan Through Life Support - Early Market Engagement Questionnaire
Details
- Buyer
- Ministry of Defence
- Published
- 12 May 2026
- Submission
- 9 June 2026
- Source
- uk:bravosolution
Tender description
Ministry of Defence (MOD), Defence Digital (DD), Deployed & Interoperability Services (D&IS) currently have two separate contracts for the provision of Legacy Through Life Support in place: - Red (LC2 - Win 7) Blue (CENTRIXS Win 10) and - Black – (Minerva Win7), MARWAN Component (Communication technology to allow connection to bearers of opportunity services) for Maritime capability. These cover three classification domains RED (LC2 providing services at SECRET UK Eyes Only), BLACK (Minerva providing services at OFFICIAL and OFFICIAL SENSITIVE); BLUE (CENTRIXS providing services at NATO and Coalition SECRET, also referred to as “MISSON SECRET”). The Authority requires that the legacy Maritime Systems for the above services continue to be sustained and fully supported during the transitional period until the NSOIT(D) OpNET capability achieves Full Operating Capability (FOC). The requirement is for the delivery of: Service Management/Operations and Through Life Support (TLS) services for deployable MOD IT systems centred around Maritime platforms (MINERVA, MARWAN, UK CENTRIXS, and LC2) together with the following associated Systems, Services, Gateways and Boundary Protection Devices (BPDs). - EJCP (Enhanced Joint Communications Processor) - ISCAS (Interoperability to Support Coexistence with the Authority) BPD - CDCIE (Cross Domain Collaborative Information Environment) BDP - The NATO Bridgehead Servers - Collingwood Training Services Environments - Northwood production Services - Reference, Test & Development Rigs - ILS Support Services
Timeline
- Completed: Tender published12 May 2026Current notice
- Completed: Submission date9 June 2026
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.
Decision makers
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| Contact name | Job title | Phone number | Work email |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head of Procurement | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@ministry-of-defence.gov | |
| Commercial Director | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@ministry-of-defence.gov | |
| Procurement Manager | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@ministry-of-defence.gov | |
| Category Lead | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@ministry-of-defence.gov | |
| Senior Buyer | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@ministry-of-defence.gov | |
| Contracts Manager | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@ministry-of-defence.gov |
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