Defence Equipment and Support: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

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Open now5next deadline 2 Oct 2026
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months235+158% vs prior 12 months (91)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Typical bids per lot1.550% single-bid · 18 bid reports
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.

Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.

Based on 18 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share6%of 111 awarded procedures · 104 suppliers
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How much of this buyer’s work goes to its three most frequent suppliers.

Share of its awarded tenders that name at least one of the top three. Each tender is counted once.

111 awarded tenders, 104 different suppliers.

Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months185 within 6 months
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.

Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.

A likely retender, not a certain one.

Published award value, 24m£2.1bnnet · on 101 of 110 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 72%
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.

Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.

Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.

Open notices

5 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build

What they buy
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What kind of work is bought here.

Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.

Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each

How they buy
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

Last 24 months · 326 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

  • Contract 95% (309 notices)
  • Framework 5% (17 notices)
Procedure route
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Which procedures buyers here use.

Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.

  • Direct award 47% (153 notices)
  • Route not published 32% (103 notices)
  • Open 11% (35 notices)
  • Selective 10% (32 notices)
  • Limited / restricted 1% (3 notices)
Typical bids per lot
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.

Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.

Based on 18 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

1.5robust · n=1850% of lots drew a single bid
Deadline → award
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How long this buyer takes to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from deadline to first award notice, on this buyer’s own tenders.

Based on 20 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

89 daysrobust · n=20
Notice amendments
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.

Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.

Based on 326 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

0112 of 326 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.

Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.

Based on 22 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

0% at estimaterobust · n=22

Who wins here
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Which suppliers win the most here.

Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.

All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
Bae Systems (Operations) Limited32.7%2321 Apr 2026
Ultra Maritime21.8%2318 Jun 2026
Jeppesen UK Limited21.8%2217 Sept 2026
Thales UK Limited21.8%2214 Nov 2025
EntServ UK Ltd Part of DXC Technology21.8%2213 Jul 2026
Link Microtek21.8%221 Jun 2026
Hydraulic Pumps (UK) Ltd21.8%2211 Dec 2025
Leonardo UK Ltd21.8%2230 Jun 2026

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 6% of 111 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 104 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.

Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.

Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.

£2.1bnSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 101 of 110 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 72%; a further 1 published a VAT-inclusive amount only (£74k inc. VAT, kept apart).
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£667k middle valuerobust · n=101Middle half £83k–£5.0m; 3 duplicate amounts excluded from both figures (heuristic for republished framework ceilings).
Largest published awards
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The biggest published awards.

Awards to a single supplier with a published value, largest first, so you can check the totals against the notice.

A repeated framework total can appear here. Open the notice to check.

SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
701760450 (PP2) - Rotary Wing Enterprise Transition PhaseBoeing Defence UK Ltd17 Mar 20263 yrs£890,000,000
≈ £297m/yr
Project Corvus - Procurement of an Uncrewed Air System capability to support the Army Land Tactical Deep Find RequirementTEKEVER LTD24 Jul 20265 yrs · up to 10 yrs£220,000,000
≈ £44m/yr
A400M UK Medium Term Aircraft In-Service Support Contract ExtensionAIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE LIMITED8 Sept 20262.6 yrs · up to 3.6 yrs£189,823,013
≈ £73m/yr
Support Services for the Type 31 Combat Management System (CMS) installed on the Type 31 frigates and Shore Integration Facility (SIF).Thales UK Limited——£116,000,000 †
The Procurement of Air and Naval CountermeasuresChemring Countermeasures Ltd30 Jun 20264.8 yrs · up to 7.8 yrs£100,000,000
≈ £21m/yr

Contracts ending
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.

Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.

A likely retender, not a certain one.

Published end dates only · 85 of 104 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast

Soonest 10 of 18 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 342 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
715890510_Arrestor SystemsAwarded / complete29 Sept 2026—
X-Ray Cabins - PA 23Non-destructive testing servicesAwarded / complete29 Sept 2026£1,024,000
Military Working Dogs (MWD) - 4 VariantsDog kennel servicesAwarded / complete29 Sept 2026£3,152,000
WECDIS & Combat System Interface Unit (WIU CSIU)Navigation equipmentAwarded / complete28 Sept 2026£12,500,000
715958490 - EOD Enabling Support ContractAwarded / complete28 Sept 2026—
Chesterfield Gas CylindersAwarded / complete25 Sept 2026—
TSSP/114 - Joint Command and Staff Training (JCAST) - Transparency NoticeAwarded / complete24 Sept 2026—
Procurement of 40mm GrenadesGrenadesAwarded / complete23 Sept 2026£134,000,000
ACTF2 - L3Harris - Threat Emulator Support - UK5 - Transparency NoticeAwarded / complete22 Sept 2026—
ACTF2 - Keysight - GNSS Simulator SupportAwarded / complete22 Sept 2026—
715863481 CCCT/883 Engineering Upskilling 2026 - UWEAwarded / complete22 Sept 2026—
In service support and PDS of Headsets-UK5Electronic and electrical spare parts for military aerospace equipmentAwarded / complete21 Sept 2026£5,834,000
The Provision of Medium and Heavy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Remote Controlled Vehicles In-Service Support - UK5Awarded / complete18 Sept 2026—
E-7 Wedgetail AEW Mk 1 Jeppesen and ForeFlight ServicesAwarded / complete17 Sept 2026—
Remediation Painting WorksAwarded / complete17 Sept 2026—
Explosive Material Identification Procurement Project2 lotsBiochemical analysersAwarded / complete16 Sept 2026£8,000,000
715865485/CCCT884-Upskilling2026 Plymouth CCAwarded / complete15 Sept 2026—
710264450_SERPENS Close Find Radar_Contract Award NoticeRadarAwarded / complete15 Sept 2026£94,000,000
Passenger Short Term Air Supply System (PSTASS)Awarded / complete14 Sept 2026—
The Provision of Helicopter Under Slung Load Equipment (HUSLE) and Cargo Nets including PDS SupportAwarded / complete10 Sept 2026—

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Data coverage & method
  • Source: Find a Tender OCDS releases; mixed PCR 2015 / Procurement Act 2023 history — no legal-regime label is applied.
  • Counts are procedures (one notice family), not lots. Authority cluster = canonical buyer plus beneficiary and procuring-entity roles.
  • Published procedure values exist on a minority of notices; their lifetime sum (£7.1bn, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 112 award records on 97 procedures (110 to a single canonical supplier, 2 multi-supplier). 46 values come from the contract record when the award carried none; 1 awards published only a VAT-inclusive amount and are counted but not valued.
  • Bid counts, deadline-to-award, amendments and award-vs-estimate come from the nightly buyer analytics row; each figure’s own method and sample is behind its , the long form on Methodology.
  • Contract end dates: 85 of 104 published contracts carry a period end; 18 end within 18 months, 5 within 6.
  • Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (21 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.

GB-COH-Defence Equipment and SupportGB-FTS-10745GB-FTS-116642GB-FTS-124269GB-FTS-14341GB-FTS-14343GB-FTS-27227GB-FTS-30250GB-FTS-30853GB-FTS-35377GB-FTS-37877GB-FTS-38073GB-FTS-38552GB-FTS-40994GB-FTS-60528GB-FTS-63048GB-FTS-74925GB-FTS-7525GB-FTS-80931GB-FTS-83404GB-FTS-9304

Canonical page id: GB-PPON-PVRL-5831-GLMM