Official UK procurement notice
Preliminary Market Engagement : Vessel Arrest System
Authority: Home Office (Central government)
This is a Preliminary Market Engagment notice that the Home Office will be seeking to at an as yet undetermined date a vessel arrest system. This notice is for interested parties to express interest in providing this work. The solution must be suitable for deployment from operational enforcement vessels, including RHIBs and patrol craft, operating in coastal and offshore environments. Bidders will also need to be registered on the UK Government's Central Digital Platform (Find a Tender Service).
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis is a Preliminary Market Engagment notice that the Home Office will be seeking to at an as yet undetermined date a vessel arrest system. This notice is for interested parties to express interest in providing this work.
Border Security Command Maritime is seeking information from suppliers capable of providing a portable vessel arrest capability to support maritime law enforcement and border security operations.
The capability is intended to enable trained maritime enforcement personnel to safely intercept and stop non-compliant vessels during active pursuit operations, reducing risks to enforcement crews, members of the public, and occupants of target vessels.
The Authority is particularly interested in solutions that are portable, self-contained and manually operated, enabling deployment across multiple maritime assets without the need for permanent vessel integration.
The Authority seeks a vessel arrest solution capable of disabling, arresting, or otherwise preventing the effective propulsion of a target vessel, resulting in a controlled reduction in manoeuvrability and speed, facilitating safe interdiction and boarding operations.
The solution must be suitable for deployment from operational enforcement vessels, including RHIBs and patrol craft, operating in coastal and offshore environments.
The proposed solution should:
- Enable the safe interdiction and controlled stopping of non-compliant vessels.
- Be capable of affecting the propulsion capability of a target vessel.
- Be suitable for deployment against a range of vessel sizes and propulsion arrangements commonly encountered in maritime enforcement operations.
- Be effective against high-speed vessels.
- Support enforcement actions during dynamic maritime pursuit scenarios.
- Facilitate safe follow-on boarding and enforcement activities following deployment.
- Minimise risk of injury to pursuing crews, target vessel occupants and third parties.
The proposed solution should:
- Be a portable, self-contained system.
- Be deployable by trained maritime enforcement personnel.
- Be handheld or otherwise operator-carried.
- Require no permanent installation on the host vessel.
- Require no structural modification to the host vessel.
- Require no integration with host vessel navigation, propulsion, communication or control systems.
- Require no dedicated onboard electrical power supply.
- Be capable of transfer between vessels without modification.
- Be capable of safe carriage and storage aboard operational maritime enforcement vessels.
- Be suitable for deployment from RHIBs and other small operational craft.
The tender opportunity will be issued via the Home Office eSourcing Portal and bidders must therefore ensure they have registered: homeoffice.app.jaggaer.com ↗
Bidders will also need to be registered on the UK Government's Central Digital Platform (Find a Tender Service). This is known as GOV.UK One Login and can be accessed at signin.account.gov.uk/sign-in-or-create ↗
CPV: Deck-arresting gear · Marine patrol vessels
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Home Office buys Ships (CPV 3451), and who usually turns up
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1 bid11% / 27%
2–337% / 64%
4–641% / 0%
7+11% / 9%
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1 bid24%
2–345%
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About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly. Contracts Finder contracts appear on the Retender Radar, not yet in these figures.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 3 Nov 2026, 13:07 GMT
- Last source update
- 3 Nov 2026, 13:07 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-104221- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-079695Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
3 Nov 2026 → 31 Mar 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published21h ago3 Nov 2026, 13:07 GMT
- Today4 Nov 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 16 days20 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Market engagementin 16 days20 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
The home office is requesting expressions of interest in this task. Should interest be shown a formal tender will follow shortly
- Contract startsin 146 days31 Mar 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published3 Nov 2026, 13:07 GMTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
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Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender