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
- Thales UK
- Value
- £100,000,000
- Procedure
- Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
- Sector
- Security, fire & defence equipment · Command, control, communication and computer systems (CPV 35710000)
- Region
- South West
- Official notice
- 013796-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date8 Apr 2025
- Published8 Apr 2025Published the same day
Description
The requirement for the Authority’s MHC team covers: 1. The requirement to integrate the currently disparate and separately controlled range of key MHC platforms and autonomous capabilities into the Thales MMCM RCC to deliver a single, unified RCC, thereby allowing integrated command, control and operation of the full range of MHC platforms, systems and sub-systems. 2. The potential provision of additional unified RCCs – to the same or slightly amended specification. 3. The provision of associated software, training and SME technical advice in support of the integration activities and wider MHC capability delivery.
About the supplier
Thales UK: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00868273).