Competition with a shortlist
Competitive procedure with a selection stage: suppliers were shortlisted before being invited to bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Ministry of Defence · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- JFD Limited
- Value
- £10,866,666.66
- Procedure
- Negotiated with publication of a contract notice
- Sector
- Community & personal services · Diving services (CPV 98363000)
- Region
- South West
- Official notice
- 010666-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date13 Mar 2025
- Published21 Mar 2025Published 8 days after the contract date
Description
Transportable Manned Compression Chambers (TMCC) are a transportable therapeutic compression chamber used for medically treating divers with decompression illnesses. There are two variants of this design - ship-fits and containerised. Ship-fits are designed to be secured to the weather deck of a ship, mounted and secured on shock mounts. The containerised version is identical in operation, apart from it is fitted within an ISO container and has additional systems, e.g., air conditioning. The TMCCs were procured in the late 1990s and are outfitted with both an electronic atmospheric control system and an emergency manually operated built in breathing system. The electronics and systems fitted for Atmospheric Control / Breathing System (AC/BS) and analysing the chamber's gas contents have become obsolete. This obsolescence has impacted the Authority's ability to refurbish and repair the equipment. To address the obsolescence issue, Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) Salvage and Mariti…
About the supplier
JFD Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company SC123684).