Official UK procurement notice
Provision and Support of a Mobile Test Facility (MTF)
Authority: Defence Equipment and Support
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionOpportunity Listing: contracts.mod.uk/esop/guest/go/opport… ↗
The MTF project includes the purchase and outfit of a vehicle that shall be converted to a mobile test facility that allows Tactical Data Links (TDL) to be fitted to Maritime and Air platforms. The vehicle shall be fitted with 3 modern workstations, Link 22 HF and UHF, Satellite and Link 16 capabilities. The vehicle will employ BOSS (Battlefield Operations Support System) Software as a test tool that enables the team to conduct test and assurance activities. The vehicle is capable of concurrent testing and shall be capable of operating throughout the UK.
Test and assurance is a mandatory requirement set by the Royal Navy Command Acquisition Support Programme and is therefore essential to provide the ability to maintain test and assurance to all TDL fitted platforms in the UK. The vehicle is also utilised for Operational Defect rectification and to baseline emerging TDL technologies.
- The authority expects to re-tender this requirement around 1 Apr 2031, 23:59 BST.
- How the procedure runs: To be included in the Tender documentation
CPV: Communications system maintenance services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewalPublished value£4,000,000
- Condition of participationshortlisting
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How this buyer will score bids.
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Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
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- Condition of participationshortlisting
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Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Defence Equipment and Support buys Maintenance services of telecommunications equipment (CPV 5033), and who usually turns up
Defence Equipment and Support’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Maintenance services of telecommunications equipment (CPV 5033) →
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Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
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Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 63 days of the bid deadline.
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Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid100% / 56%
2–30% / 22%
4–60% / 22%
7+0% / 0%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate43% / 35%
Within ±2%36% / 47%
Above estimate21% / 18%
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
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Lot #1CPV 5033Published estimate£4.0m
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 1,281 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid16%
2–330%
4–628%
7+27%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Serco LimitedLive contract | Provision of Technical and Logistic Support Servicesruns to Mar 2030 | — | £9.3m | Matched as the earlier contract |
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Who could compete for this lot?
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
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.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Defence & security
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Yes · next expected 1 Apr 2031
- First published
- 5 Aug 2026, 12:25 BST
- Last source update
- 12 Aug 2026, 11:41 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 26 Feb 2027
- Authority reference
SACC/00123- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-076652- Latest notice
- Planned procurement notice (UK3)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06dc4aFind a Tender
- How it runs
To be included in the Tender documentation
How it was run
Official notice- Requests to participate (first stage)
- 11 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission deadline
- 11 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Tenders will be submitted via the Defence Sourcing Portal (DSP)
Timeline
5 Aug 2026 → 1 May 2027 · 6 dates- Planning notice published81 days ago5 Aug 2026, 12:25 BST
- Latest notice published74 days ago12 Aug 2026, 11:41 BST
- Today25 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 2 days26 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 17 days11 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 125 days26 Feb 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 188 days1 May 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 5 Aug 2026- Pipeline notice published5 Aug 2026, 12:25 BSTUK1
- Planned procurement notice published12 Aug 2026, 11:41 BSTUK3
- Procurement method changed12 Aug 2026, 11:41 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender