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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Ministry of Defence, Ships, Communications and Situational Awareness (CSA)

Navigation Radar Portfolio Project

Communications EquipmentCPV 32352200 51611100 51240000 35722000 34932000 38115000 71336000 35723000 34933000
Value£45.7m
Awarded22 Jan 2016
Published5 Feb 2016
RegionSouth West
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£45.7mtotal contract value
median £101k
this tender£0£49.4m

This is a large award for Radio, TV & Communications Equipment — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 6,686 valued Radio, TV & Communications Equipment tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The Navigation Radar Portfolio (NRP) is a capability sustainment project that will replace the current Navigation Radars on the Ships and Submarines of the Fleet.

The scope of this programme is Primary Navigation Radars (I Band), Second Navigation Radars (E/F Band) and Compact I Band Radars.

Although the NRP is capability sustainment and funded through the Equipment Support Programme (ESP), there are new and enhanced regulations that form part of the requirement.

These are IMO regulations and the MAA regulations, the latter being supported by Def Stan 00-972.

The MAA regulations have to be adhered to due to the Primary Navigation Radar utilisation for Helicopter management.

The NRP also has a ‘UK Eyes Only’ requirement embedded in the Radar requirements.

It is envisaged that radar installation will commence in 2016 and be completed by 2020 and the capability will remain extant for 20 years from installation.

There is a further NRP requirement to provide as much convergence of capability across the Fleet and to reduce Defence Lines of Development (DLoD) expenditure.

This is a key driver in the maritime domain.

The NRP project seeks to ensure as much commonality in spares, HMI and operator/maintainer experience between the I Band and the E/F Band radars.

Additionally, the NRP has to consider the use of the bandwidth, in particular the likely event of spectrum sell-off, particularly in the E/F band.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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Although the NRP is capability sustainment

Although the NRP is capability sustainment and funded through the Equipment Support Programme (ESP), there are new and enhanced regulations that form part of the requirement.

02

There is a further NRP requirement

There is a further NRP requirement to provide as much convergence of capability across the Fleet and to reduce Defence Lines of Development (DLoD) expenditure.

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The NRP project seeks to ensure as

The NRP project seeks to ensure as much commonality in spares, HMI and operator/maintainer experience between the I Band and the E/F Band radars.

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