708071451

A Contract Award Notice
by MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

Source: Find a Tender
Type: Framework (Services)
Duration: not specified
Value: £4M

Sector: DEFENCE
Published: 22 Jul 2025
Delivery: not specified
Deadline: n/a

Concepts

Location

United Kingdom:

Geochart for 1 buyers and 1 suppliers

1 buyer

MOD Bristol

1 supplier

Utac Bedford

Description

Land Environment Operating Centre Testing, Trialing & Advice

Total Quantity or Scope

Testing, Trialing & Advice

Award Detail

1	Utac (Bedford) Trialing, Testing & Advice Reference: 041945-2025-70871451-1 Value: £4,000,000

Award Criteria

Lowest price

CPV Codes

73433000 - Test and evaluation of military vehicles

Legal Justification

The Specialist Vehicle and Uncrewed Land Systems (SVULS) Project Team, part of the UK Ministry of Defence, intends to extend Contract 708071451 for the provision of Testing, Trialing and Advice with UTAC Limited for the testing, advice, and trialling of Land Environment (LE) wheeled vehicles by 18 months from September 25. The contract will have a nil value increase due to an underspend from the original estimated maximum value of £4M. Therefore the expected spend for this extension period is £2m to meet the original value of £4M. The original VTN was publish 1st June 2023 for the Contract being completed through the award of the contract without prior publication of a contract notice in the UK e-notification service which is lawful in accordance with Regulation 16(1)(a)(ii) of the Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011 for technical reasons. This VTN is under the same grounds for the same rationale provided from the suitably qualified and experienced personnel (SQEP) from the SVULS Engineering team conducting analysis of the market capabilities and concluded that UTAC are still the sole economic operator with the necessary expertise, facilities, infrastructure, and capacity to conduct the full scope of required work.