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Supply of Portable Appliance Testers

Buyer: Defence Equipment and Support →

BuyerDefence Equipment and Support
Statusplanned
DeadlineNot published
Value£2,087,335
Published26 Sept 2025

What is being bought

This is a Request for Information (RFI) for the procurement Portable Appliance Testers for Tri-Service use. The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has a requirement to procure an estimated qty 2000 Portable Appliance Testers over a period of up to 4 years on behalf of the Operational Infrastructure Delivery Team (OIDT), part of Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S).

Delivery location

UK, GB

Categories

Circuit testers 31212200

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusplanned
Contract periodFrom 20 Dec 2026 to 19 Dec 2030
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Circuit testersNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 31. The category anchor is Circuit testers (31212200); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 311,1975 median · 78.5 average (297 of 1,197 with a bid count)6.3 average (349 of 1,197 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer4Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UK31726.5 median · 270.5 average (76 of 317 with a bid count)16.1 average (90 of 317 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)76Not publishedNot publishedNot published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetValue not published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents1
Planning milestones1
MilestoneTypeDueStatus
Please review the content within the RFI and provide a response to DES-Deca-MST-Procurement@mod.gov.uk by no later than 23:59 on 31/10/25. NOTE; This RFI is to gain information with no guarantee to become a tender / procurement. All costs incurred completing this RFI are to be borne by the suppliers. Opportunity link to DSP; https://contracts.mod.uk/esop/guest/go/opportunity/detail?opportunityId=60283engagement31 Oct 2025scheduled

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-051e5e
Latest release ID060290-2025
Latest release timestampFri Sep 26 2025 15:27:02 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statusplanned
Procurement methodNot published
Procurement method detailsNot published
Main procurement categorygoods
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£2,087,335
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
26 Sept 2025planning060290-2025
22 May 2025planning025037-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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Complete JSON history (2 releases)
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