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Commercial X Dynamic Market

Ministry of Defence

This public procurement record has 2 releases in its history.

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08 Jul 2025 at 12:11

UK14 - Dynamic Market Establishment Notice
Tender

16 Jun 2025 at 10:00

UK13 - Dynamic Market Intention Notice
Summary of the contracting process

The Ministry of Defence is engaging in a strategic procurement initiative titled the "Commercial X Dynamic Market," focusing on the research and experimental development services sector. This procurement falls under central government authority and has been instigated to drive innovation and scaling in solution development, addressing the so-called 'valley of death' in the defence sector. Located in London, the initiative is currently at the award stage, following a tender that commenced in June 2025. The dynamic market framework agreement became active on 7 July 2025 and is set for a duration of 999 days. Key upcoming engagement opportunities include a virtual industry session on 2 July 2025, designed to discuss membership processes, with a registration deadline of 1 July 2025.

This tender presents significant opportunities for business growth across various scales of enterprises, from small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to large corporations, and even VCSEs (Voluntary, Community, and Social Enterprises). The initiative encourages participation from academia and industry innovators to collaborate on solving defence-related challenges and scaling solutions for operational deployment. Businesses specialising in innovation, product development, and scaling technologies are particularly well-suited to compete. The open procurement method ensures broader access and encourages competitive engagement, positioning the dynamic market as a crucial avenue for enterprises looking to expand their influence in defence procurement and development projects.

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Notice Information

Notice Title

Commercial X Dynamic Market

Notice Description

This Dynamic Market is designed to address the 'valley of death' and to increase engagement and competition in the innovation and scaling phases of solution development. Innovation and scaling are the focus areas of this Dynamic Market. The guidelines that we are providing to assist in the understanding of the scope are as follows: Innovation is the process of creating, developing, or improving products, services, processes, or business models to generate value. It involves the practical implementation of new ideas to solve problems, meet needs, or exploit opportunities, often leading to significant advancements in efficiency, quality or user experience with a view to testing, improving outcomes and scaling solutions into operational development. This Dynamic Market seeks organisations that are motivated to help defence answer existing and future problems and / or to scale solutions up to operational deployment as well as all phases in between. For this reason, we heavily encourage organisations from academia and micro enterprises all the way through to global corporations to join the Dynamic Market ecosystem. To help industry and MOD understand where requirements and problem statements fall, and to understand where each organisation may have the greatest success as well as identifying areas for maturation, we have combined well-established 'Readiness Levels' to form our 'Dynamic Readiness Levels (DRLs)' which are detailed in the Membership Pack which can be downloaded from the open invitation of membership on the Defence Sourcing Portal Project: https://contracts.mod.uk/esop/toolkit/opportunity/current/59965/detail.si A virtual industry engagement session shall be held at 14:00 on the 2 Jul 25 to discuss the membership process including the DRLs. Invitation to the event will be by request. To register your interest in attending, you must complete this form https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=7WB3vlNZS0iuldChbfoJ5WWitfgCjXBAtgF4DXF-anFUMFVMNkNJUjNDQUpHN1pYNTdWVVRNUzJLUy4u no later than 18:00 on 1 Jul 25. At this point the form will close and no additional participants will be accepted to the industry engagement session. Invites will be sent out on 2 Jul 25 only once the MS Forms has closed. Due to capacity limitations, this engagement will be limited to one person per company.

Notice Details

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-054901
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/038211-2025
Current Stage
Award
All Stages
Tender, Award

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
UK14 - Dynamic Market Establishment Notice
Procurement Type
Dynamic
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Open
Procurement Method Details
Dynamic market
Tender Suitability
SME, VCSE
Awardee Scale
Large, SME

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

73 - Research and development services and related consultancy services

CPV Codes

73100000 - Research and experimental development services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
Not specified
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
8 Jul 20251 years ago
Submission Deadline
Not specified
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
8 Jul 20251 years ago
Contract Period
Not specified - Not specified
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Active
Lots Status
Active
Awards Status
Active
Contracts Status
Not Specified

Buyer & Supplier

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
Ministry of Defence
Contact Name
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Contact Email
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Contact Phone
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Buyer Location

Locality
LONDON
Postcode
SW1A 2EU
Postcode Area
South West London
Country
England
Major Region (ITL 1)
TLI London
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLI3 Inner London - West
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLI35 Westminster and City of London
Delivery Location
Not specified
Local Authority
Westminster
Electoral Ward
St James's
Westminster Constituency
Cities of London and Westminster

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
39
Supplier Names

4C EUROPE UK LIMITED

ACCELLEO LTD

ADVAI LTD

BAE SYSTEMS APPLIED INTELLIGENCE LIMITED

BBI SOLUTIONS OEM LIMITED

BLUE BEAR SYSTEMS RESEARCH LTD

BY LIGHT TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED

C SOFTWARE LIMITED

C3 SYSTEMS CONSULTING LTD

CAMBRIDGE CONSULTANTS LIMITED

CAPTEC LIMITED

CODA SECURITY LIMITED

COMPTECH SOLUTIONS LTD

CONSORTIUM X LTD

CORETECH SECURITY SERVICES LIMITED

ERNEST WEST & BEYNON,LIMITED

FLUID GRAVITY ENGINEERING LIMITED

FOCA PARTNERS LIMITED

Fraym

HELSING LIMITED

HELYX SECURE INFORMATION SYSTEMS LIMITED

HOLTEX LIMITED

INNOVATION & DESIGN ENGINEERING LIMITED

LEIDOS INNOVATIONS UK LTD

MARINE & REMOTE SENSING SOLUTIONS LIMITED

MIND FOUNDRY LIMITED

OPTIMA SYSTEMS CONSULTANCY LIMITED

ORIGAMI LABS UK LTD

PDP PROJECTS LIMITED

SERCO LIMITED

SIERRA NEVADA CORPORATION MISSION SYSTEMS UK, LTD

SOMERFORD ASSOCIATES LIMITED

SQUARCLE CONSULTING LTD

SYNTHETIK APPLIED TECHNOLOGIES UK LTD

THE LAB CORPORATIONS LTD

THORNTON TOMASETTI DEFENCE LIMITED

XEWLI LIMITED

ZEST CONSULT LTD

xSolutions365 Limited t/a CreateFuture

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