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The UK Ministry of Defence is establishing a Framework for the procurement of Personal Hard Armour to support its Armed Forces Personnel. The Personal Hard Armour Framework will facilitate the procurement of personal ballistic protection through the pre-approval of suppliers and will deliver agility, consistency, and financial savings in the procurement of personal hard armour - whilst encouraging innovation and optimising organisational outputs. Defence requires the ability to procure personal hard armour in low and high quantities, with the agility to meet emerging demands. Potential future requirements and technologies that may utilise the Framework are as below: a. Osprey Replacement. b. Reduced threat plates. c. Buoyant plates. d. Non-standard shaped plates (complex curvature). e. Covert plates. The Authority therefore intends to establish a Closed, non-committal, Defence and Security Framework for an 8 year duration.
No lot description published.
Award criteria
Commercial — all details of the Commercial requirements shall be set out in the associated Tender documents.
Technical — all details of the Technical requirements shall be set out in the associated Tender documents.
| Item | Category | Quantity |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Combat gear, Cover plates, Protective gear, Bullet-proof vests | Not published |
Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 18. The category anchor is Protective gear (18143000); 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 set | Procedures | Reported bids per procedure | Named award suppliers | Price evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Market: CPV division 18 | 387 | 8 median · 63.2 average (128 of 387 with a bid count) | 4.8 average (137 of 387 with named award suppliers) | Not published |
| Same buyer | 6 | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Similar published value (0.5×–2×) | 10 | Not published | Not published | 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.
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.
No planning milestones published.
No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.
Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.
| OCID | ocds-h6vhtk-04f88f |
|---|---|
| Latest release ID | 004752-2026 |
| Latest release timestamp | Tue Jan 20 2026 12:00:19 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) |
| Source | find-a-tender |
| Official notice URL | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/004752-2026 |
| Tender status | active |
| Procurement method | selective |
| Procurement method details | Competitive flexible procedure |
| Main procurement category | goods |
| Above threshold | Yes |
| Legal basis | 2023/54 |
| Tender period: start | Not published |
| Tender period: end | Not published |
| Expression of interest deadline | 2026-02-17T23:59:00+00:00 |
| Enquiry deadline | 2026-02-09T23:59:00+00:00 |
| Award period: start | Not published |
| Award period: end | 2026-05-19T23:59:59+01:00 |
| Submission method details | please submit electronically on the DSP - https://contracts.mod.uk/esop/ogc-host/public/mod/web/login.html Link to PSQ - https://contracts.mod.uk/go/29074572019BDB320926 |
| Submission languages | en |
| Electronic catalogue policy | Not published |
| Total tender value | £208,333,333 |
| Tender lots in source | 1 |
| Tender items in source | 1 |
| Tender documents in source | 3 |
| Awards in latest release | 0 |
| Contracts in latest release | 0 |
| Parties in latest release | 1 |
| Date | Event | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Jan 2026 | tender | 004752-2026 |
| 17 Jul 2025 | planningUpdate | 041074-2025 |
| 17 Jul 2025 | planningUpdate | 041048-2025 |
| 29 May 2025 | planningUpdate | 028470-2025 |
| 22 May 2025 | planning | 025111-2025 |
| 15 Apr 2025 | planningUpdate | 015219-2025 |
| 11 Apr 2025 | planningUpdate | 014615-2025 |
| 11 Apr 2025 | planningUpdate | 014567-2025 |
| 11 Apr 2025 | planningUpdate | 014548-2025 |
| 25 Mar 2025 | planning | 011174-2025 |
Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.
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