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Babcock DSG Ltd

Calibration, Repair and Maintenance of Roller Brake Testers (RTB), Headlamp Beam Testers (HBT) and Wheel Play Detectors (WPD) and the Purchase of HBTs and WPDs when required.

Repair & MaintenanceCPV 50000000 50400000
Value£4.6m
Awarded18 Sept 2017
Published23 Sept 2017
RegionWest Midlands
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£4.6mtotal contract value
median £130k
this tender£0£4.9m

This is a large award for Repair & Maintenance — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 15,278 valued Repair & Maintenance tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Babcock DSG Limited acting as the UK Ministry of Defence's Agent, intends to negotiate a single source Contract with VL Test Systems Limited for the Calibration, Repair and Maintenance of the fleet of Van Leeuwen Test Systems fixed Roller Brake Testers (RBT), Headlamp Beam Testers (HBT) and Wheel Play Detectors (WPD) within the UK and overseas (including in-theatre) vehicle test facilities.

This will also include removal, refurbishment and re-installation of machines from site to site, maintenance of the VOSA database of vehicle DfT test codes, and training on the use of the machines to MOD staff.

The requirement also includes the Purchase of Headlamp Beam Testers and Wheel Play Detectors when required.

This notice is not a request for expressions of interest so please do not apply to be invited to tender.

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