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Ministry of Defence, DSG, Defence Support Group (DSG)

IRM18/5899 Supply of Test and Measuring Equipment & Spares and associated items

Laboratory EquipmentCPV 38540000
Value£4.0m
Awarded15 Jul 2019
Published25 Jul 2019
RegionWest Midlands
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£4.0mtotal contract value
median £70k
this tender£0£4.3m

This is a large award for Laboratory & Precision Equipment — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 9,869 valued Laboratory & Precision Equipment tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Babcock DSG Limited acting as the Authority's Agent is considering establishing a Framework Agreement for Supply Of Test and Measuring Equipment & Spares for the British Army.

The contract shall have a duration of 4 years.

Babcock DSG Limited reserve the right to add further items of a similar nature to this contract post award.

Any resulting contract shall have a set of Key Performance Indicators to measure performance in areas such as delivery and quality, and shall include remedies for poor performance.

No business whatsoever is guaranteed under any resulting framework agreement/contract.

There is no guarantee that any framework agreement/contract will be put in place in relation to this notice.

No compensation will be paid if a tender/resulting framework agreement is withdrawn for any reason.

Bidders should take part in this process only on the basis that they fully understand/accept this.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

Babcock DSG Limited acting as the Authority's

Babcock DSG Limited acting as the Authority's Agent is considering establishing a Framework Agreement for Supply Of Test and Measuring Equipment & Spares for the British Army.

02

The contract shall have a duration

The contract shall have a duration of 4 years.

03

Any resulting contract shall have a set

Any resulting contract shall have a set of Key Performance Indicators to measure performance in areas such as delivery and quality, and shall include remedies for poor performance.

04

Bidders should take part in this process

Bidders should take part in this process only on the basis that they fully understand/accept this.

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
Babcock DSG Limited acting as the Authority's Agent is considering establishing a Framework Agreement for Supply Of Test and Measuring Equipment &

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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Stage
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