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Dstl

GB-Sevenoaks: Scalable Helmet Protection

Security & DefenceCPV 35813000
Value£97k
Awarded6 Dec 2018
Published13 Dec 2018
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£97ktotal contract value
median £210k
this tender£0£17.6m

This sits in the lower-middle of the Security, Defence & Safety Equipment band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 4,182 valued Security, Defence & Safety Equipment tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Industrial advances in helmet technology suggest that an enhanced combat helmet is available.

As such, the user is seeking a combat helmet solution, with enhanced ballistic and non-ballistic protection, that is suitable for the full spectrum of operational activities and environments.

Tenderers are to develop, test and deliver 4 x functional helmets that achieve the specified requirements (ballistic and non-ballistic performance) by a single, scalable protection helmet system.

If you are able to answer yes to the majority of the following questions, and indicate that you are interested in receiving the full statement of requirements (classified O-S) this can posted to you. • Do you have experience with working with UK MOD on classified projects? • Do you have a past history of supplying UK MOD with helmets? • Do you have experience of developing and manufacturing bullet resistant helmets? • Do you have experience of developing and manufacturing scalable helmet protection? • Do you have the ability to assess the protective performance and non-ballistic (blunt impact/drop) testing?

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Tenderers are to develop, test and deliver

Tenderers are to develop, test and deliver 4 x functional helmets that achieve the specified requirements (ballistic and non-ballistic performance) by a single, scalable protection helmet system.

02

If you are able to answer yes

If you are able to answer yes to the majority of the following questions, and indicate that you are interested in receiving the full statement of requirements (classified O-S) this can posted to you.

03

• Do you have experience of developing

• Do you have experience of developing and manufacturing bullet resistant helmets?.

04

• Do you have experience of developing

• Do you have experience of developing and manufacturing scalable helmet protection?.

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Source & provenance
OCID
69869b17-b4c0-40cb-a4ae-5fe45d27926f
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
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