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
- Roke Manor Research
- Value
- £251,000,000
- Procedure
- Negotiated with publication of a contract notice
- Sector
- Research & development · Military research and technology (CPV 73410000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 012392-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date7 Mar 2025
- Published1 Apr 2025Published 25 days after the contract date
Description
1 Since the first V2 attack on London in 1944 ballistic missiles have posed a near constant threat to the UK, its overseas interests, and forces. Adversaries continue to invest in and proliferate increasingly advanced ballistic and manoeuvrable threat systems to challenge our freedom of action. 2 The UK Missile Defence Centre (MDC), a unique government-industry partnership within MOD Head Office, is responsible for all UK missile defence Research & Development (R&D). The MDC was established as a government-industry partnership to provide support to decision makers on all aspects of Missile Defence and to provide a pipeline of funding to sustain SQEP in relevant UK industry sectors. Through continuing implementation of the 2020 MOD Science & Technology (S&T) Strategy, the Missile Defence R&D category must sustain, exploit, and develop UK industrial and academic expertise to continue to develop next generation and generation after next technologies applicable to Integrated Air and Missi…
About the supplier
Roke Manor Research: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00267550).