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Personal Load Carriage Equipment - Pipeline Notice

Protective gear
Rucksacks
Location not published
Published value
£30,000,000
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
AI & Search Synopsis
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Tenderline Synopsis: Defence Equipment and Support: "Personal Load Carriage Equipment - Pipeline Notice". Published status: planned. Published value: £30,000,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityDefence Equipment and SupportScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
planned
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)£30,000,000
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Defence Equipment and Support
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for Defence Equipment and Support. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
1.9Bids / Report
54.5% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationHigh Concentration
Tekever LtdTop vendor: 60.9% of attributable value
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 83 active published awards; 11 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Historical Awarded Suppliers With This Authority:
Supplier NameHistoric AwardsAttributable GBP Value
Tekever Ltd1 win£220,000,000
ST Engineering Advanced Material Engineering PTE. LTD1 win£65,840,000
JFD Limited3 wins£52,294,167
Northern Diver (International) Limited1 win£12,091,667
Southern Scientific Ltd1 win£8,250,000
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityDefence Equipment and Support
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statusplanned
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published14 Aug 2025, 14:06 BST
Last source update14 Aug 2025, 14:06 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationProtective gear, Rucksacks
Delivery areaLocation not published
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-0587ef
What is being bought
The PLCE and Operational Travel Bags (OTB) capability consists of basic load carriage elements (webbing components, bergens etc) and ancillary items (weapon holsters, bivouac poles etc).
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Official notice release published
    14 Aug 2025, 14:06 BST
  2. Published value updated to £30,000,000
    14 Aug 2025, 13:53 BST
  3. Status changed to planned
    14 Aug 2025, 13:53 BST
  4. Official notice release published
    14 Aug 2025, 13:53 BST
  5. Buyer information updated
    14 Aug 2025, 13:53 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    planned
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Pipeline notice
    14 Aug 2025, 14:06 BST
  2. Procedure published
    14 Aug 2025, 14:06 BST
  3. engagement
    30 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT · scheduled
    Lethality & Protect, DCC Survivability Team will be attending DSEI 9-11 September 2025. We encourage suppliers to get in touch so we can arrange to have brief informal discussions about our future requirement for Personal Load Carriage Equipment. The Project Team intend to publish a RFI within the next few weeks so obtain further information to support the development of this requirement. To arrange a discussion at DSEI 2025, please email Sarah.Griffiths138@mod.gov.uk & Stuart.Frost103@mod.gov.uk
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Defence Equipment and Support

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PVRL-5831-GLMM
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Documents (1)
Official links; attachments are not copied
Related procedures (0)
No data
No related procedures published
Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleNot published