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title: "Equipment Cabinets and Enclosures"
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# Equipment Cabinets and Enclosures

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/equipment-cabinets-and-enclosures-ocds-h6vhtk-050470). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Defence Science and Technology Laboratory: "Equipment Cabinets and Enclosures". Published status: complete. Published Value: £1,500,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 12 May 2025, 17:00 BST. Published submission portal: contracts.mod.uk.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Defence Science and Technology Laboratory](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/defence-science-and-technology-laboratory-gov-ea42)
- **Published Value:** £1,500,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 12 May 2025 at 17:00 BST
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Competitive flexible procedure
- **Main Category:** goods
- **Classifications (CPV):** Electromechanical equipment
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Awarded Value:** £1,649,818 (exc. VAT, 1 award)
- **Official Documents:** 6 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/equipment-cabinets-and-enclosures-ocds-h6vhtk-050470#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-050470`

## Before you bid
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- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/equipment-cabinets-and-enclosures-ocds-h6vhtk-050470#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [contracts.mod.uk](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontracts.mod.uk%2Fesop%2Fguest%2Fgo%2Fopportunity%2Fdetail%3FopportunityId%3D59741)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/equipment-cabinets-and-enclosures-ocds-h6vhtk-050470#participate

## Description
Dstl has a requirement for the design, assembly and supply of a number of a 31U high 19 inch equipment cabinets, each containing seven electronic enclosures, and separately a Human Computer Interface (HCI), all built to a defined specification that will be provided with the full SOR.
The cabinet and enclosures are intended for use by the MOD and are to be designed to meet defence standards in accordance with DEFSTAN 08-107 Iss3.  The equipment shall be designed to meet environmental criteria and will need to be subjected to EMC and environmental testing (temperature & vibration) in accordance with DEFSTAN 59-411 and 08-123.
The internal enclosures will consist of five custom electronic enclosures each with a design provided by Dstl but for the supplier to design the mechanical layout and wiring assembly arrangements; space for a 9U processing chassis provided by Dstl; and a chilled water heat exchanger.
The cabinet will need to be designed for two modes for cooling the equipment to account for the different environments that the system can be operated in. Either air cooled – air flows into and out of the cabinet therefore expelling wild heat into the surrounding area. Or chilled water cooling – air recirculates inside the cabinet to cool the enclosures, but heat is taken out of the cabinet by chilled water heat exchangers.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 31720000
- **Delivery regions:** UK
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB
- **Estimated Value:** £1,500,000

- **Contract Period:** 23/07/2025 to 21/10/2028

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Steatite Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-966`
  - Value: £1,649,818 (exc. VAT)
  - Date: 17/08/2025

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £1,649,818
  - Signed Date: 15/09/2025

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F015834-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-09-25T07:54:39.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-25T21:57:17.825Z
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