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HMC VALIANT Maintenance and Safety Equipment Recertification (MSER)

Repair & MaintenanceCPV 34511100

Value£100k

Deadline11 Sept 2026

Published19 Aug 2026

RegionNationwide

Timeline

Published 19 Aug 20268 days leftCloses 11 Sept 2026

Who to contact

MaritimeProcurement@homeoffice.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit

Open the submissions portal

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context

£100ktotal contract value

median £130k

this tender£0£4.8m

This sits in the lower-middle of the Repair & Maintenance band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 15,278 valued Repair & Maintenance tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

This is notice of a Tender opportunity to perform Planned Maintenance and Safety Equipment Recertification (MSER) for the Border Security Command Cutter HMC Valiant.

This work will be needed between 9th November 2026 and 4th December 2026 (now 4 weeks).

This requirement includes the Inspection, Testing and Certification of Safety Equipment as well as general Vessel Maintenance Tasks.

Modifications and Defect Rectification may also be required, The regional location for this opportunity will be from Liverpool on the West coast, around Land’s End, along the south and east coasts of England, to North Shields.

The Buyer is using Jaggaer for this procurement which means the Tender is available only in electronic form. https://homeoffice.app.jaggaer.com/ The Invitation to Tender (ITT) can be viewed from the login page by anyone.

However, you need to register and login to express interest and participate in the ITT.

Bidders are required to complete the Qualification, Technical and Commercial Envelopes.

To Prepare and Submit an ITT Response Supplier responses can be configured within JAGGAER ONE, to do so: Navigate to Sourcing > ITT.

Select from the sub-menu items:- ITTs Open to All Suppliers Bidders will also need to be registered on the UK Government's Central Digital Platform (Find a Tender Service).

This is known as GOV.UK One Login and can be accessed at https://signin.account.gov.uk/sign-in-or-create For more guidance, please see the attached document Project_20734 Instructions to Bidders

Requirements

What the notice asks for

However, you need to register and login

However, you need to register and login to express interest and participate in the ITT.

Bidders are required to complete the Qualification

Bidders are required to complete the Qualification, Technical and Commercial Envelopes.

Bidders will also need to be registered

Bidders will also need to be registered on the UK Government's Central Digital Platform (Find a Tender Service).

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.

What it takes to bid this

12–20 daysof bid-team effort

£8.2k–£13.7kat typical UK bid-team rates

Compressed window — start the same week

Typical UK bid effort for the £100k–£1m band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

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