Official UK procurement notice
715864481 - Preliminary Market Engagement RFI Debrief – LIOS IROC/OP&S
Authority: Ministry of Defence (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Authority recently carried out a Pre Market Engagement (PME) exercise in support of the Integrated Readiness Output Contract (IROC) and Other Platforms and Services (OP&S) elements of the wider Land Integrated Operating Services (LIOS) programme. The Authority can now update industry partners on common themes within the PME responses received and key updates.
LIOS is a once in a generation opportunity to begin the transformation of Land vehicle support from 2026, with a full LIOS enterprise in place from 2030) and, in doing so, bring MOD and Industry closer to delivering Defence’s intent in accordance with the Land Industrial Strategy. The vision for LIOS is to deliver long-term, output-focussed equipment support solutions that proactively and intelligently manage in-scope capabilities through-life in accordance with capability management plans. LIOS will deliver sustainable enterprise efficiencies to optimise support and capabilities through-life, combining upkeep, update, and upgrade services.
IROC, including but not limited to provision of the services currently delivered via the extant Service Provision and Transformation Contract (SPTC), covers a wide range of in-service land equipment and is intended to be a pan Integrated Operating Service (IOS) service provider incentivised to reduce duplication of work, maximise pan-Defence Lines of Development (DLOD) non-Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) efficiencies and leverage economies of scale. OP&S including but not limited to provision of post-design services (PDS) via contracts such as PMETS and other support services for in-scope platforms not included within platform IOS contracts from April 2030 and will provide IOS support for those platforms that continue beyond 2030 but do not have a planned programme of Upgrades and Update. IROC and OP&S are initially being managed as one over-arching programme until the procurement strategy is matured however there may be two or more procurements. The role and full scope of the services will be developed and matured prior to formal procurement activity commencing.
Estimated contract dates (start and finish) – 01/04/2030 to 31/03/2045 with possible option years
Estimated value - £3-7bn inc applicable VAT
CPV: Repair and maintenance services of military vehicles
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The IROC/OP&S team intends to provide an update to industry parties through a…Planned
The IROC/OP&S team intends to provide an update to industry parties through a Microsoft Teams brief on October 14th 2026 at 1pm; parties wishing to attend the brief should email the LIOS multi-user (DES-LELIOSMultiuserMailbox@mod.gov.uk) with the heading ‘IROC/OP&S Programme Update’ to request the relevant link. To ensure parity for all industry partners the brief will be recorded for those unable to attend; a copy will be available via request from the multi-user email address.
There will be an opportunity for the MOD team to answer questions specifically related to IROC/OP&S; industry questions must be submitted prior to the brief using the multi-user email address, questions cannot be asked during the briefing session. The deadline for submission of questions is close of play 8th October 2026; questions received after this date will not be included. Where possible answers will be provided during the teams brief and collated for distribution after the event. Questions submitted must have a classification no higher than ‘official’.
This Notice does not formally signify the start of a procurement process, nor does it represent a commitment to undertake one or more procurement exercises. Any future procurement(s) will be advertised via issue of the relevant notice in accordance with Procurement Act 2023 requirements. Any indications of interest, participation, or non-participation by any organisation at this stage will not influence the process, selection, and/or award decision for any future procurement.
Please note contract start/end dates and dates for issue of notices or tender documentation listed in this notice are indicative only and may be subject to change; these dates should not be taken as an indication of confirmed timelines for procurement activity. The estimated contract value listed in this notice is also indicative only and may be subject to change. Additional information: Published in DSP as opportunity listing - contracts.mod.uk/esop/guest/go/opport… ↗
Please email DES-LELIOSMultiuserMailbox@mod.gov.uk to request the Microsoft Teams link.
Linked to Preliminary Market Engagement RFI : www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/046990-2026 ↗ - Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-069eef.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Ministry of Defence buys Repair and maintenance services of military vehicles (CPV 5063), and who usually turns up
Ministry of Defence’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Repair and maintenance services of military vehicles (CPV 5063) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered. More of this buyer’s work stays local than in this market: 81% against 54%, n=16.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 48 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid57% / 50%
2–326% / 50%
4–617% / 0%
7+0% / 0%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate60% / 34%
Within ±2%22% / 48%
Above estimate18% / 18%
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1The IROC/OP&S team intends to provide an update to industry parties through a…CPV 5063Estimate not published
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 1,280 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid16%
2–330%
4–628%
7+26%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 1 Oct 2026, 15:46 BST
- Last source update
- 1 Oct 2026, 15:46 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-092980- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077eefFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
1 Oct 2026 → 24 Aug 2027 · 2 dates- Notice published27 days ago1 Oct 2026, 15:46 BST
- Today29 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 298 days24 Aug 2027, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.