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715882494 Project Bedrock AUV Phase 2

Details

Value
£330,000
Published
8 September 2026
Submission
30 September 2026in 4 days

Tender description

The Authority has contracted Bedrock Ocean Exploration to deliver an autonomous maritime data collection and analysis demonstration. The requirement will provide a Data-as-a-Service capability, including mission planning, autonomous data acquisition, data processing, and delivery of assured datasets to support research, development and evaluation activities within the maritime domain.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Tender published8 September 2026
    Current notice
  2. Next: Submission date30 September 2026in 4 days

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.

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