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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Ministry of Defence

704471450-MSS/143-PD2-021 CAN

Engineering & ArchitectureCPV 71000000 71300000 71350000 71356000
Value£216.8m
Awarded5 Nov 2025
Published22 Jan 2026
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£216.8mtotal contract value
median £95k
this tender£0£234.2m

This is a large award for Engineering & Architecture — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 33,646 valued Engineering & Architecture tenders in our corpus.

The brief

PDaTS - Maritime Post Design and Technical Services.

The Power, Propulsion and Auxiliaries (PPA) Team, which is part of the ships operating centre within Defence Equipment Support (DES) provides global support to the Royal Navy.

PPA has set up a Framework agreement to provide Post Design and Technical Services to Royal Naval Platforms through an established set of suppliers.

There is a possibility that during the life of the proposed contract that the size of HM Naval Fleet may increase or decrease.

The support contract took the form of a Framework arrangement and has been awarded under DSPCR 2011 regulations.

Call-Off contracts were awarded to 28 suppliers.

Mini-Competitions are held throughout the life of the framework agreement.

This mini-competition was for the provision of Technical Support Products, Call-off price withheld due to commercial sensitivities and the ongoing competitive nature of the Framework.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The Power, Propulsion and Auxiliaries (PPA) Team

The Power, Propulsion and Auxiliaries (PPA) Team, which is part of the ships operating centre within Defence Equipment Support (DES) provides global support to the Royal Navy.

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PPA has set up a Framework agreement

PPA has set up a Framework agreement to provide Post Design and Technical Services to Royal Naval Platforms through an established set of suppliers.

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The support contract took the form

The support contract took the form of a Framework arrangement and has been awarded under DSPCR 2011 regulations.

04

This mini-competition was for the provision

This mini-competition was for the provision of Technical Support Products, Call-off price withheld due to commercial sensitivities and the ongoing competitive nature of the Framework.

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Framework agreement (any)Frameworks & routes to market
PPA has set up a Framework agreement to provide Post Design and Technical Services to Royal Naval Platforms through an established set of suppliers.

Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.

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Source & provenance
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Stage
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