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
- QinetiQ Limited
- Value
- £34,000,000
- Procedure
- Negotiated with publication of a contract notice
- Sector
- Education & training · Training and simulation in security equipment (CPV 80610000)
- Region
- South West
- Official notice
- 046226-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date31 Jul 2025
- Published5 Aug 2025Published 5 days after the contract date
Description
The MCAST System will provide a virtual environment for Maritime Battlestaffs (MBS) Tier 1, 2 and 2+ training and assurance exercises. The MCAST System will also provide interface to MBS participation in Tier 3 exercises run by other organisations with the potential to stretch to join Tier 4 exercises. At a lower level MCAST might be exploited for specific Tier 1 training delivered to the MBS or sub-teams. The intent is for MCAST to be capable of linking to the wider Defence synthetic training environments. Compliance with Defence Modelling and Simulation Coherence (DMaSC) principles, as defined in JSP 939, will enhance coherence and interoperability, enable efficiencies, and facilitate integration with other synthetic environments. Links to NATO, other international partners and, potentially, component level organisations are expected to follow. The initial 5 Year Contract Period has a value of £24,817,763.88, with the costed options (including two +1 year options) taking the overall…
About the supplier
QinetiQ Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03796233).