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title: "ETD Onsite Preventative Maintenance - Contract Award Notice"
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# ETD Onsite Preventative Maintenance - Contract Award Notice

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/etd-onsite-preventative-maintenance-contract-award-notice-ocds-h6vhtk-04210b). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Department for Transport: "ETD Onsite Preventative Maintenance - Contract Award Notice". Published status: complete. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Department for Transport](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/department-for-transport-gov-d9)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Repair and maintenance services
- **Delivery Location:** UKI
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £1,835,052 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-04210b`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **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/etd-onsite-preventative-maintenance-contract-award-notice-ocds-h6vhtk-04210b#tl-md)

## Description
This Contract Award Notice is for the provision of Planned Preventative Maintenance and ad hoc Corrective Maintenance; and provision of consumables associated with Explosive Trace Detection machines produced by Smiths Detection Watford Ltd.
These are ETD machines which DfT had purchased from Smiths Detection Watford Ltd (the machine manufacturer) and deployed (loaned) to certain high-risk airports/ authorities overseas; airports that provide direct flights to the UK. 
DfT are responsible for ensuring the ETD machines are kept in good working order for use by end users at overseas airports, whether by host states or airlines, the latter of which undertake additional measures at the gate in certain countries. Therefore, while DfT retains this responsibility, the contract for the provision of these services with Smiths Detection Watford Ltd continually needs to be extended.
It is the ambition to transfer responsibility for purchasing consumables, parts kits and maintenance of such ‘loaned’ ETD machines to the relevant country/airport. Therefore, this Contract Extension has included a Break Clause within the existing Contract to enable each time DfT transfers, to host states or airlines, the responsibility for ETD machines, Smiths Detection Watford Ltd will revise its quote to reflect the associated removal.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete

- **Delivery regions:** UKI

- **Description:** Provision of ongoing maintenance of DfT's Explosive Trace Detection (ETD) machines deployed (loaned) overseas; and of consumables.

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** Smiths ETD Onsite Preventative Maintenance (active)
  - Award id: `035505-2023-P4084059-1`
  - Supplier(s): **Smiths Detection Watford Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-99804`
  - Value: £1,835,052 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** Smiths ETD Onsite Preventative Maintenance (active)
  - Signed Value: £1,835,052
  - Signed Date: 14/11/2023

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F035505-2023)
- **Last Source Update:** 2023-12-01T13:48:21.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-27T23:13:49.240Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-04210b