Official UK procurement notice
Untitled procurement — UK public procurement notice
Authority: Ministry of Defence (Central government)
Sectors: Research & Development (R&D) (73) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Awarded value £39,742,538published contract · exc. VAT
Awarded 13 Aug 2025
Awarded to ROKE MANOR RESEARCH LIMITED
What is being bought
Published requirement description• Provision of services to continue to carry out Research and Development activity on the ZODIAC Prototype capability to further mature the Prototype into a functional capability that is suitable to scale and to de-risk any future ZODIAC procurement that may take place.
• Provision of Industry support to Field Army Exercises to continue to test the Prototype on Exercise.
CPV: Research and development services and evaluation tests · Research and development services and related consultancy services
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32009L0081 Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011 (Directive 2009/81/EC)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 22 Aug 2025, 13:52 BST
- Last source update
- 22 Aug 2025, 13:52 BST
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-058ce8
- Why no open competition
- This contract is exempt from the Procurement Act 2023 (PA23) in line with Schedule 2 of PA23 and has been Direct Awarded to Roke Manor Research in line with the principles of Schedule 5 of PA23.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics — not a forecastAwards 1
Awarded value £39,742,5381 contract exc. VAT
Bids received 1
Contracts signed 1latest 13 Aug 2025
| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROKE MANOR RESEARCH LIMITED | — | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 050894-2025-715456450-1 · ROKE MANOR RESEARCH LIMITED
- Signed
- 13 Aug 2025
- Value
- £39,742,538
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids · 1 electronic | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Roke Manor Research LimitedAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.