Overseas Facilities Management Category Strategy

The National Armaments Director Group, Commercial and Industry is undertaking preliminary market engagement to inform the development of the Overseas Facilities Management Category Strategy and improve the Authority's understanding of the capability, capacity and appetite of the market.

At this stage, the Authority has not determined its future requirements or preferred delivery and commercial model. The Authority therefore wishes to engage openly with the market before making decisions about how future Facilities Management services might best be structured and delivered.

The engagement will explore, amongst other matters:

• market capability, capacity and appetite to deliver Facilities Management services across the overseas estate;
• how suppliers might approach the geographic and service packaging of future requirements;
• where Total Facilities Management (TFM) may be deliverable and attractive to the market;
• where alternative approaches, including separate Hard Facilities Management (HFM) and Soft Facilities Management (SFM) arrangements, may support competition, resilience and value for money;
• opportunities for different or innovative delivery and commercial models;
• the challenges associated with delivering services in remote, overseas or complex operating environments;
• potential barriers to market participation and competition;
• approaches to mobilisation, supply chains and local delivery;
• opportunities for SME and wider supply-chain participation; and
• any other market considerations that the Authority should take into account when developing its Category Strategy and any future requirements.

The Authority welcomes constructive challenge and alternative proposals from Industry Partners and does not wish suppliers to limit their responses to the current prime FM delivery models. The reference to TFM, HFM and SFM is intended to describe existing arrangements and areas the Authority wishes to explore and should not be interpreted as a predetermined future contracting model.

The Authority intends to hold an initial industry engagement event 12th November 2026 at 13:00 with Tier 1 suppliers. The event will provide further information and an opportunity for interested organisations to offer feedback and discuss relevant market considerations.

Contact – [email protected] if you’d like to attend.

A survey will follow the initial industry engagement event. The survey is intended to gain Industry Partners with genuine interest to work with the Authority through early market engagement to enable the Authority to shape the future procurement(s) scope, to gather market intelligence on the services, locations and potential delivery approaches that may be of interest to suppliers.

Information obtained through this engagement may be used to inform the development of the Category Strategy, subsequent commercial and procurement strategies.

Participation is voluntary. This preliminary market engagement does not constitute a call for competition, tender or other procurement procedure, and does not commit the Authority to undertake any subsequent procurement. Participation or non-participation will not prevent a supplier from participating in any future procurement opportunity.

Any future procurement opportunity will be subject to the relevant approvals and will be advertised separately in accordance with the applicable procurement legislation.