Open competition
Open procedure: the contract was advertised and any supplier could submit a bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Submarine Delivery Agency · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Occam Group Ltd SME
- Value
- £6,347,443
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Sector
- Architecture & engineering · Engineering services (CPV 71300000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 036559-2024 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date10 Nov 2024
- Published12 Nov 2024Published 2 days after the contract date
Description
The Government White Paper published in December 2006 set out the United Kingdom (UK) Government’s intention to retain a minimum assured independent strategic nuclear deterrent for the foreseeable future. This will be fulfilled by the Dreadnought SSBN as the replacement for the V-Class. Operationally, the Dreadnought Nuclear Powered Warship (NPW) will provide the ‘replacement’ capability for the V-Class NPW rather than providing a ‘new’ capability. Consequently, the expected mission and functional requirements can be assumed to be essentially the same as those of the V-Class NPW. However, the reactor design in Dreadnought is Pressurised Water Reactor (PWR) 3 as opposed to PWR2 in V-Class – the change in design of the reactor and its associated systems means that Safety Justifications (SJs) for Dreadnought operations at HMNB(C) may place different requirements to V-Class. Consequently, there is a requirement to establish, and maintain across the project timeframe, a suitably qualified …
About the supplier
Occam Group Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 11986732).