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713887451 - GSA9 Tender Notice - UK4

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BuyerDefence Equipment and Support
StatusClosed
Deadline22 Apr 2025
Value£21,000,000
Published20 Mar 2025

What is being bought

In-Service Support & Post-Design Services for Gun System Automation Mk9 (GSA9). The support solution will be structured to provide the following services: Logistics Management Technical Support Design Authority Obsolescence Management System Health Checks Safety & Environmental Management Documentation Management Quality Management Software Management Project Management, Meetings & Reporting Configuration Control Test Facilities & Equipment Security Management Provide facility for ad-hoc tasks

Categories

Repair and maintenance services of weapons and weapon systems 50840000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£21,000,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Mar 2026 to 28 Feb 2029

Award criteria
Price — Weightings will be set out in the associated tender documents.
Technical — Weightings will be set out in the associated tender documents.
Commercial — Weightings will be set out in the associated tender documents.

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Repair and maintenance services of weapons and weapon systemsNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 50. The category anchor is Repair and maintenance services of weapons and weapon systems (50840000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 509,2224 median · 22.4 average (3,784 of 9,222 with a bid count)3.2 average (4,299 of 9,222 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer38Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)38235 median · 27.7 average (3 of 382 with a bid count)3.7 average (3 of 382 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetValue not published
No-engagement rationaleNo market engagement required for this procurement.
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-04e84b
Latest release ID010336-2025
Latest release timestampThu Mar 20 2025 11:04:35 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/010336-2025
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodselective
Procurement method detailsCompetitive flexible procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadline2025-04-22T23:59:00+01:00
Enquiry deadline2025-04-08T23:59:00+01:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2026-02-28T23:59:59+00:00
Submission method detailshttps://contracts.mod.uk
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£21,000,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source3
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
20 Mar 2025tender010336-2025
27 Feb 2025planning007368-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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Complete JSON history (2 releases)
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