Official UK procurement notice
Provision of Salvaged Aircraft Hulls and Facilities
Authority: Ministry of Defence (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionStrategic Command, as part of the Ministry of Defence (MoD), require a service that provides and installs salvaged aircraft hulls at a secure facility that is provided by the Contractor. The facility must be suitable for hosting MoD-led real life airplane tactical entry training sessions. These sessions are foreseen to be needed once or twice every six months. Please see the ITT pack for further details.
This procurement is being tendered with Defence being applied as the special regime. This contract qualifies as a Defence contract in accordance with section 7 (g) of the Procurement Act 2023.
- How the procedure runs: Please see Annex B to DEFFORM 47 of the ITT pack.
CPV: Aeroplanes · Training facilities
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1AwardedRenewalPublished value£650,000
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- See the ITT pack for further details.
- See the ITT pack for further details.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Cancelled
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Defence & security
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 16 Apr 2025, 10:58 BST
- Last source update
- 3 Oct 2025, 14:20 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 15 Sept 2025
- Authority reference
714583451- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-041978- Latest notice
- Procurement termination notice (UK12)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0503c5Find a Tender
- How it runs
Please see Annex B to DEFFORM 47 of the ITT pack.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 18 Aug 2025, 13:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 8 Aug 2025, 13:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Please find details of the opportunity and the submission details by following this link:
Timeline
16 Apr 2025 → 3 Oct 2025 · 9 dates- Planning notice published16 Apr 2025, 10:58 BST
- Market engagement30 Apr 2025, 23:59 BST
The purpose of this preliminary market engagement is to identify the number of suppliers that may be able to deliver the requirement identified. In order to facilitate this, please could suppliers provide answers to the following questions:
- Do you have prior experience delivering a similar requirement? And if so, could you provide detail of your experience (e.g., goods/services delivered, customer, value, duration)?
- One aspect of the requirement is to provide airport fire and rescue service within 30 minutes, is this feasible?
Please submit your answers to the email address stated in this notice, using 'Provision of a Service to enable Specialist Aircraft Training PME' as the email subject.
Note: This notice does not signal the beginning of a procurement, nor a guarantee that any procurement activity will commence. Potential suppliers that act on any information received through this pre-market engagement do so entirely at their own risk.
- Next notice expected5 May 2025, 23:59 BST
- Tender notice published22 Jul 2025, 12:32 BST
- Clarification questions by8 Aug 2025, 13:00 BST
- Submission deadline18 Aug 2025, 13:00 BST
- Award decision expected by15 Sept 2025, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts399 days ago25 Sept 2025, 00:00 BST
- Latest notice published390 days ago3 Oct 2025, 14:20 BST
Notice history
7 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 16 Apr 2025- Preliminary market engagement notice published16 Apr 2025, 10:58 BSTUK2
- Tender notice published22 Jul 2025, 12:32 BSTUK4
- Status changed to active22 Jul 2025, 12:32 BST
- Procurement method changed22 Jul 2025, 12:32 BST
- Deadline published: 18 Aug 2025, 13:00 BST22 Jul 2025, 12:32 BST
- Procurement termination notice published3 Oct 2025, 14:20 BSTUK12
- Status changed to complete3 Oct 2025, 14:20 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| supplier not published | — | 3 Oct 2025 | Cancelled |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Procurement termination notice Procurement termination notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender