Official UK procurement notice
X-Ray Cabins - PA 23 · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Defence Equipment and Support (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Ministry of Defence (MOD) has a requirement to maintain a transportable X-Ray Cabin capability, for use by the Non-Destructive Testing [NDT] Teams of 71(IR) Sqn and 1710 NAS. Therefore, there is a requirement to procure a Servicing/Maintenance and call-out Repair capability for the X-Ray cabins, by the Air Commodities Delivery Team [ACDT], which is part of the Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) of the MOD.
The requirement is for the in-service support of nine transportable Radiographic Exposure (X-Ray) Cabins. This will include the on-site repair and annual servicing of the X-Ray cabins, including the provision of an annual Electrical Installation Report [to comply with electrical safety regulations BS 7671], the annual I-beam [max 100kg] inspection [in accordance with Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER)] Report, and an annual Structural Assessment Report.
CPV: Non-destructive testing services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1AwardedRenewalPublished value£1,024,000
- Technical & professional ability
ISO9001 2015
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Technical: 50%
- Price: 50%
Published award criteria (2)
- Price: Full award criteria can be found in the ITT
- Technical: Full award criteria can be found in the ITT
- Technical & professional ability
ISO9001 2015
- Price carries 50 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 5 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- 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
- 11 Apr 2025, 11:10 BST
- Last source update
- 29 Sept 2026, 13:14 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 20 Aug 2026
- Authority reference
ACDECA027- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-054759- Latest notice
- Contract details notice (UK7)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-050136Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 20 Jul 2026, 14:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 9 Jul 2026, 14:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
11 Apr 2025 → 29 Sept 2026 · 10 dates- Planning notice published11 Apr 2025, 11:10 BST
- Market engagement9 May 2025, 23:59 BST
To sustain the capability, MOD is exploring potential future solutions, that will underpin the defence and security of the UK in the future, and as such is issuing a Request for Information (RFI) to industry. The objective of the RFI is to understand the capacity and capability of the industrial base to support this capability requirement.
Please respond by emailing your copy of the RFI to [email protected].
Link to RFI form:
Project: 713026450 - X-Ray Cabins - PA 23
contracts.mod.uk/esop/toolkit/opportu… ↗
Please send any queries about this market engagement exercise to: [email protected].
Please provide your response via the email provided in the RFI, responses will be accepted until 12:00 09/05/25. The Authority may decide to contact you directly to clarify any points raised in your response. If you require any further information, we invite you to submit final clarification questions no later than 25/04/25. We will respond by 02/05/25.
Where relevant and appropriate, this market engagement event may be followed by further engagement exercise which will be notified through normal channels (e.g. Defence Sourcing Portal, Find a Tender)
For the avoidance of doubt, this notice is not informing the market of an imminent procurement. All costs pertaining to the completion of this response are to be borne by the responders.
Please note, procurement dates and values in this notice are subject to governance and should not be viewed as a firm commitment. This RFI is purely to gain market knowledge and is not the launch of a new procurement. Pricing and timelines will be refined through market engagement, at this stage a cost of between £378,000 and £552,000 Ex VAT and a contract start date of between December 2025 and May 2026, is estimated.
- Next notice expected391 days ago26 Sept 2025, 23:59 BST
- Tender notice published135 days ago10 Jun 2026, 13:58 BST
- Clarification questions by106 days ago9 Jul 2026, 14:00 BST
- Submission deadline95 days ago20 Jul 2026, 14:00 BST
- Assessment summaries sent71 days ago13 Aug 2026, 00:00 BST
- Award decision expected by63 days ago20 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts52 days ago1 Sept 2026, 00:00 BST
- Latest notice published24 days ago29 Sept 2026, 13:14 BST
Notice history
10 events · 4 releases on Find a Tender · since 11 Apr 2025- Preliminary market engagement notice published11 Apr 2025, 11:10 BSTUK2
- Tender notice published10 Jun 2026, 13:58 BSTUK4
- Published value updated to £1,024,00010 Jun 2026, 13:58 BSTwas £552,000
- Status changed to active10 Jun 2026, 13:58 BST
- Procurement method changed10 Jun 2026, 13:58 BST
- Deadline published: 20 Jul 2026, 14:00 BST10 Jun 2026, 13:58 BST
- Contract award notice published13 Aug 2026, 14:13 BSTUK6
- Status changed to complete13 Aug 2026, 14:13 BST
- Contract signature expected28 Aug 2026, 23:59 BSTscheduled
- Contract details notice published29 Sept 2026, 13:14 BSTUK7
Routine re-releases (4)
- 2025-04: 1 release · 11 Apr 2025
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hoists and Cranes UK LtdIn service support of transportable radiographer exposure (X-Ray Cabins)1 Sept 2026 – 31 Aug 2028 · up to 31 Aug 2033Extensions: 5 years option years in 1 year intevals · Options: 5 years option years in 1 year intevals | £1,020,000 | 13 Aug 2026 | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 1 · Hoists and Cranes UK Ltd
- Signed
- 29 Sept 2026
- Value
- £1,020,000
- Period
- 29 Sept 2026 – 28 Sept 2028 · up to 28 Sept 2033 with extensions
- Status
- active
- Extensions
- 5 years options years in 1 year intevals
- Options
- 5 years options years in 1 year intervals
No agreed KPIs: Not needed for current requirement
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5final-stage tenders | 5 | 0 | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Hoists and Cranes UK LtdAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Contract details notice Contract details notice on Find a Tender
- Contract award notice Contract award notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender