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Defence Equipment and Support

715112450 - Ballistic Testing Services - Personal Armour - Pipeline Notice

Construction MaterialsCPV 44431000
Value£8.3m
Deadline
Published4 Aug 2025
RegionNationwide
Who to contact
rodney.gardiner114@mod.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£8.3mtotal contract value
median £135k
this tender£0£9.0m

This is a large award for Construction Materials & Structures — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 10,341 valued Construction Materials & Structures tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

The UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) requires access to Ballistic Testing Services to support new to service projects and ensure through life support of Personal Armour provided to its Armed Forces Personnel.

The MOD requires laboratories to be UKAS accredited to ISO 17025, including NATO AEP 2920.

The MOD intends to run a competition to award a contract for Ballistic Testing Services.

The contract will have a headroom of £10m (Inc VAT) and will be for 5 years with 3 x 1 optional years.

Testing will be carried out throughout the length of the contract as and when it is required.

The MOD are proposing that for the purposes of Ballistic Testing Services the contractor will need to have a UK located facililty.

Please note that the publication date of the UK 4 Tender Notice and Contract start date are an estimate and is still subject to change.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) requires

The UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) requires access to Ballistic Testing Services to support new to service projects and ensure through life support of Personal Armour provided to its Armed Forces Personnel.

02

The MOD are proposing that for

The MOD are proposing that for the purposes of Ballistic Testing Services the contractor will need to have a UK located facililty.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-056c18
Stage
planning · Planning
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
045549-2025
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