Notice Information
Notice Title
Ground Training and Maintenance Support 2 (GTMS2)
Notice Description
Provision of preventative and corrective maintenance to approximately seventy seven (77) synthetic ground training aids, located throughout mainland U.K.
Lot Information
Lot 1
The Authority has a remit to provide ongoing maintenance and post design support to Synthetic Training Aids (STE) used for Tri-Service aircraft maintenance, ground and rear crew training until the Out of Service Date (OSD) of the equipment. Failure to deliver defined training outputs could lead to training deficiencies on those passing through training and impact the ability of delivering capabilities to the front line but also assist mitigate risk to life activities. The majority of equipment's support training conducted by the following Customer Groups: a. RAF 1 Group; b. RAF 2 Group; c. RAF 22 (Training) Group, primarily the Defence School of Aeronautical Engineering (DSAE) and the Defence College of Technical Training; d. RAF 38 Group primarily Royal Air Force Centre of Aviation Medicine (RAFCAM). It is anticipated that there shall be several components of this requirement. These shall be conducted by suitably qualified and experienced resources, including; a. 'Preventative Maintenance' which is defined as systematic and prescribed work carried out at prescribed intervals or usages, and is carried out to reduce the probability of failure or to mitigate degradation. b. 'Corrective Maintenance' which is defined as unscheduled maintenance that is carried out after the item/system has failed in order to restore it to a functioning state. An unscheduled or corrective maintenance task would be carried out after a fault was recognised to effect restoration. c. Ad-Hoc tasking is defined as any work to the original equipment, or its records to maintain safety, cost, operational use, reliability and/or maintainability, to the agreed operational/functional base line standard. d. Post Design Services (PDS) is defined as work required to undertake discrete tasks not part of the larger repair and maintenance task e.g. disposal and/or investigations. The STEs are located at a number of bases, primarily: a. Defence Schools of Aeronautical Engineering (DSAE) Cosford, b. Ministry of Defence (MOD) Lyneham, c. Royal Navy Air Engineering and Survival School (RNAESS) Gosport, d. RAF Brize Norton. Other sites may include, but not necessarily limited to: a. RAF Cranwell, b. RAF Henlow, c. RAF Odiham, d. RAF Wittering, e. RAF St. Athan, f. RAF Conningsby, g. RAF Lossiemouth, h. RAF Mawgan i. Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) Yeovilton. Additional information: https://contracts.mod.uk/go/741551880190FDDBEAE7
Options: The Contract may include two 12 month options, both of which would be in addition to the 60 month core contract duration.
Renewal: The Authority may compete for these services once this contract expires.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-048552
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/005809-2026
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Selective
- Procurement Method Details
- Negotiated with publication of a contract notice
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
34 - Transport equipment and auxiliary products to transportation
80 - Education and training services
-
- CPV Codes
34741400 - Flight simulators
80660000 - Training and simulation in military electronic systems
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £7,000,000 £1M-£10M
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £7,570,012 £1M-£10M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 22 Jan 20261 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- 26 Aug 2024Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 22 Dec 20252 months ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Active
- Lots Status
- Active
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
- Contact Name
- Attn: Charlotte Arnold, Steve Gregory
- Contact Email
- charlotte.arnold107@mod.gov.uk, desfsast-comrclmailbox@mod.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- BRISTOL
- Postcode
- N/A
- Post Town
- Bristol
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLK South West (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLK5 West of England
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLK52 Bath & North East Somerset and South Gloucestershire
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Electoral Ward
- Stoke Park & Cheswick
- Westminster Constituency
- Filton and Bradley Stoke
Further Information
Notice URLs
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