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
- Roke Manor Research Limited
- Value
- £39,742,537.78
- Procedure
- Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
- Sector
- Research & development · Research and development services and related consultancy services (CPV 73000000)
- Region
- South West
- Official notice
- 050894-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date13 Aug 2025
- Published22 Aug 2025Published 9 days after the contract date
Description
• Provision of services to continue to carry out Research and Development activity on the ZODIAC Prototype capability to further mature the Prototype into a functional capability that is suitable to scale and to de-risk any future ZODIAC procurement that may take place. • Provision of Industry support to Field Army Exercises to continue to test the Prototype on Exercise.
About the supplier
Roke Manor Research Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00267550).