Awarded without open competition
Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Ministry of Defence · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- INZPIRE Limited
- Value
- £2,500,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Industry specific software package (CPV 48100000)
- Official notice
- 007790-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date28 Jan 2026
- Published28 Jan 2026Published the same day
Description
The UK Military Flight Training Systems Hawk Delivery Team (UKMFTS) part of the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) proposes to amend an existing single source non-qualifying defence contract with Inzpire Limited, for both the provision of software to deliver an Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B)-In function on the Graphical Electronic Cockpit Organiser Mission Support System (GECO MSS) installed for use on Hawk TMk1 aircraft as well as a support solution for the GECO MSS tablets, base stations and software. GECO MSS is a proprietary product developed by Inzpire, which owns the intellectual property in the GECO software. The delivery of the ADSB-In end-product will be no later than 1 Jul 2026. The total value of the contract amendments are not likely to exceed £2.5M. In accordance with regulation 4 of The Defence and Security Public Contracts (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (SI 2019/697) this contract falls to be regulated under the provisions of the Defence and Secu…
About the supplier
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