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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Ministry of Defence

LARGE AIRCRAFT INFRA-RED COUNTERMEASURES IN-SERVICE SUPPORT

Transport EquipmentCPV 34000000 34700000 34710000 34711000 35000000 35700000
Value£12.4m
Awarded15 Mar 2024
Published4 Mar 2024
RegionNorth West
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£12.4mtotal contract value
median £102k
this tender£0£13.4m

This is a large award for Transport Equipment — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 15,368 valued Transport Equipment tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Air Platform Systems Delivery Team (APS DT), part of the Ministry of Defence ("the Authority"), intends to place a nine (9) month extension to Contract APS/026 with Northrop Grumman for the in-service support and Post Design Services of Large Aircraft Infra-Red Counter-Measure (LAIRCM) Block 10 ("the Contract") including repair, maintenance, technical engineering support, training, and associated spares provision.

Northrop Grumman were responsible for the original development and maintenance of this counter measuring hardware installed on multiple platforms.

The Authority has determined this single source contract is excluded from Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011 under Regulation 7(1)(a) in conjunction with Regulation 6(3A) (a).

Northrop Grumman are the only supplier with the necessary technical knowledge and experience to provide the required maintenance, technical support and post-design services to the LAIRCM Hardware.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Northrop Grumman were responsible for the original

Northrop Grumman were responsible for the original development and maintenance of this counter measuring hardware installed on multiple platforms.

02

Northrop Grumman are the only supplier

Northrop Grumman are the only supplier with the necessary technical knowledge and experience to provide the required maintenance, technical support and post-design services to the LAIRCM Hardware.

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OCID
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Stage
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