Official UK procurement notice
Supply of Double Cab Pick Ups PME
Authority: Defence Equipment and Support (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionProvide as many new 4-wheel drive, double cab pickups as possible within the budget of £200,000 (inc VAT) they must all be left hand drive (LHD), have 4 doors, have a tow bar with associated electrical kit and have air conditioning. The end user of the vechicles will be the Moldovan MOD.
Further to this they should all comply with the below technical specifications as minimum:
Fuel type: Diesel
Gearbox/transmission: Automatic
No of seats: 5
Engine Size: between 2.4 and 2.8 litres
Fuel tank capacity: 80 litres
Tow bar connector: 13 pin (with associated electrical kit)
Towing capacity: 3,500kg
Fuel consumption min: 30mpg
Colour preference: Dark Grey
Wheels: 17- or 18-inch wheels
Tyres: All season tyres / all-weather tyres
Additional requirements: Hardtop pick up box cover
Delivery location:
Hîncești Highway 84
Chișinău
Republic of Moldova
MD 2021
The Supplier shall be responsible for obtaining all required Import and Export Licences required in support of supplying the contract deliverables.
Support not required as part of this requriement however, the vechicles should be capable of being supported by OEM or a licensed dealership in Moldova.
CPV: 4-wheel-drive vehicles
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Planned
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- 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
- 20 May 2025, 09:41 BST
- Last source update
- 20 May 2025, 09:41 BST
- Authority reference
RPH/0136- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-022984- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area in notice
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0517f7Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
20 May 2025 → 29 Sept 2025 · 4 dates- Planning notice published20 May 2025, 09:41 BST
- Market engagement3 Jun 2025, 23:59 BST
The purpose of this preliminary market engagement is to understand the feasibility and the market's ability to respond to the requirement. In order to facilitate this, please could intrested suppliers provide answers to the following questions:
- Are you able to deliver vehicles meeting the requirement scope to Moldova? If so what would be an estimation of your delivery timescales.
- Please detail the specific make and model of vehicle that you would propose to deliver to meet the requirement scope.
Please submit only your answers to the above PME questions to DESOpsDir-RPT@mod.gov.uk stated in this notice, using 'Supply of Double Cab Pick Ups 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.
- Tender notice expected10 Jul 2025, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts394 days ago29 Sept 2025, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published20 May 2025, 09:41 BSTUK2
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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender