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Defence Equipment and Support

Diving Life Support (DLS) In-Service Support (ISS)

Construction MachineryCPV 33157500
Value£62.5m
Deadline14 Nov 2025
Published22 Sept 2025
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 22 Sept 2025ClosedCloses 14 Nov 2025
Who to contact
Marion Stone
DESShipsComrcl-SALMO-Multiuser@mod.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

https://contracts.mod.uk/esop/guest/go/opportunity/detail?opportunityId=59608 Responses to the Procurement Specific Questionnaire, the 'all Lots' ITT and the Lot-specific ITTs you wish to tender for must be completed and submitted in the Defence Sourcing Portal (DSP) by 23:59 14th November 2025. Any Clarification Questions should also be submitted through the DSP.

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£62.5mtotal contract value
median £123k
this tender£0£67.5m

This is a large award for Medical Equipment & Pharmaceuticals — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 9,456 valued Medical Equipment & Pharmaceuticals tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

Defence Equipment and Support (DES) Salvage and Marine Operations (SALMO) Delivery Team (DT) have a requirement for the provision of In-Service Support (ISS) to the Diving Life Support (DLS) portfolio of equipment.

The DLS portfolio provides a diving capability to the UK Military, led by the Royal Navy, to support a full range of technical and support activities to enable the delivery of underwater Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), underwater engineering, underwater search and engineering tasks in support of UK Defence Tasks.

The DLS ISS requirement is divided into the following four Lots: Lot 1 - Diver's Dress and Dive Ancillaries Estimated value: £10M ex VAT Includes: Diver's dress, e.g. dive suits, boots, gloves, etc and Dive Ancillaries Lot 2 - Diving Support Equipment Estimated value: £14M ex VAT Includes: Diver Through Water Communication (DTWC) Gas Boosters Pumps Portable Breathing Air Compressor (PBAC) Portable Oxygen Monitoring Apparatus (POMA) Type B Recompression Chamber (RCC) Lot 3 - Dive Sets and Dived Equipment Estimated value: £21M ex VAT Includes: Enclosed Mine Lift Bags (EMLB) Swimmers Oxygen Breathing Apparatus (SOBA), including Excursion variant Surface Supplied Diving Equipment (SSDE) Parachute Lift Bags (PLB) Underwater Hydraulic Tools Lot 4 - Self-Contained Air Diving Equipment (SCADE) and Clearance Diver Life Support Equipment (CDLSE) Estimated value: £17.5M ex VAT Includes: Self-Contained Air Diving Equipment (SCADE), including Swimmers Air Breathing Apparatus (SABA) and Rechargeable Air Breathing Apparatus (RABA) Clearance Divers Life Support Equipment (CDLSE) The Lots require ISS to extant equipment, as well as the ability to procure more/new equipment at the direction of the Authority.

The DLS ISS contracts will be for five (5) years, with two (2) additional one (1) year options to extend.

If all the options to extend are exercised by the Authority, each contract's duration will be a total of seven (7) years.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Defence Equipment and Support (DES) Salvage

Defence Equipment and Support (DES) Salvage and Marine Operations (SALMO) Delivery Team (DT) have a requirement for the provision of In-Service Support (ISS) to the Diving Life Support (DLS) portfolio of equipment.

02

The DLS portfolio provides a diving capability

The DLS portfolio provides a diving capability to the UK Military, led by the Royal Navy, to support a full range of technical and support activities to enable the delivery of underwater Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), underwater engineering, underwater search and engineering tasks in support of UK Defence Tasks.

03

Self-Contained Air Diving Equipment (SCADE) and Clearance

Self-Contained Air Diving Equipment (SCADE) and Clearance Diver Life Support Equipment (CDLSE).

04

Clearance Divers Life Support Equipment (CDLSE)

Clearance Divers Life Support Equipment (CDLSE).

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

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Stage
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Source
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058360-2025
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