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Defence Support Sustainment Provider
Forecast: a planned procurement that is not yet at tender stage.
01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- £295,000,000Framework ceiling or programme total, not a contract value
- Deadline (UK time)
- No open deadlineA deadline does not apply to this forecast notice.
- Published
- 1 Sep 2026
- Region
- Not stated
02/ The brief
What the notice says
Not fully read: this is the notice text; attached documents are not read.
The Authority is seeking a supplier to provide sustainment, support, maintenance, and transition services for a portfolio of legacy Defence support applications and associated integration services that underpin logistics, inventory management, engineering, munitions, maritime, and supply chain operations across Defence. The requirement will support the continued operation of a complex and interconnected application estate whilst enabling the progressive transition, migration, disaggregation, and retirement of legacy systems as replacement capabilities are introduced.
The scope is expected to include service management, application support and maintenance, incident and problem management, configuration and release management, technical assurance, cyber security support, middleware and integration services, data management, and associated technical specialist services. The supplier will be required to support application interoperability, data extraction and migration activities, interface management, knowledge transfer, and system decommissioning activities as part of an overall transition strategy.
The requirement includes support for business-critical and operationally significant systems that provide logistics visibility, inventory management, engineering support, munitions management, and associated information services. The supplier will be expected to maintain service availability, performance, security, and resilience whilst supporting the implementation of replacement systems and the controlled reduction of the legacy estate over the contract term.
The contract is anticipated to be a managed sustainment and transition arrangement with a reducing application footprint, supporting ongoing modernisation activities through data migration, systems integration, retirement planning, and service transition support
03/ Classification
CPV codes
Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.
- 72315000
04/ History
Releases of this notice
One release held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.
- 1 Sep 2026Planning notice
Planning notice published 1 September 2026.
Release 082662-2026
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05/ Limits
What the source does not tell us
- The stated value is a ceiling or programme total.
- Only one release is held, so there is no change history.
06/ Questions
About this notice
07/ Related
Where to go next
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- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-06ef8e
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Stage
- planning · Planning
- Last verified
- Tue 8 Sep 2026, 08:11 BST
- Read at
- Sun 18 Oct 2026, 21:47 BST
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