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title: "Provision of Salvaged Aircraft Hulls and Facilities"
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# Provision of Salvaged Aircraft Hulls and Facilities

Buyer: MINISTRY OF DEFENCE  
Current stage: Tender  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-0503c5

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## Summary

The Ministry of Defence, located in Wiltshire, United Kingdom, conducted a public procurement process for the provision of salvaged aircraft hulls and facilities, specifically aimed at hosting real-life airplane tactical entry training sessions for the Strategic Command. The process underwent several stages, including planning, tendering, and ultimately a cancellation of the award. Initially opened in April 2025, the tender aimed to utilise a competitive flexible procedure under the category of services, specifically in the defence sector. The procurement was initially scheduled to be awarded by September 2025, with the contract beginning later that month. However, the procurement process, identified by the id 062187-2025, concluded with the cancellation of the final award in October 2025, as announced in the tender cancellation notice.

This procurement presented opportunities for businesses specialising in providing salvaged aircraft hulls and secure training facilities. SMEs and VCSEs suited to delivering comprehensive facilities for defence-related training could find substantial growth potential in engaging with such tenders. The opportunity entailed a prospective contract value of £780,000, highlighting a significant commercial scope for businesses equipped to fulfil the Ministry's stringent requirements under the defence sector's special procurement regime. The reintroduction of such tenders, when uncancelled, would benefit those with expertise in logistics, aircraft structure provision, and secure facility management, fostering collaboration and business expansion within the UK’s defence industry.

## Notice

Strategic 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.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

Options: All services that are anticipated to be delivered through this Contract will be via a Tasking Order Form Process. Any services rendered by the Contractor will incur expenditure against a limit of liability. There is no guaranteed volume of services to be provided by the Contractor through this Contract. Please see the ITT pack for further details.

Renewal: The Contract is anticipated to be let on a 3+1+1 basis, meaning that two additional Contract years may be invoked at the sole discretion of the Authority.

### Planning Information

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.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/062187-2025 |
| Notice type | UK12 - Procurement Termination Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Open |
| Procurement method details | Competitive flexible procedure |
| Tender suitability | SME, VCSE |
| Awardee scale | Not specified |
| All stages | Planning, Tender |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 3 Oct 2025 |
| Submission deadline | 18 Aug 2025 |
| Future notice date | 5 May 2025 |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | 24 Sep 2025 - 24 Sep 2028 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £650,000 |
| Lots value | £650,000 |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Complete |
| Awards status | Cancelled |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | MINISTRY OF DEFENCE |
| Additional buyers | Missing |
| Locality | WILTSHIRE |
| Post town | Swindon |
| Postcode | SN13 9NR |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLK South West (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLK7 Gloucestershire and Wiltshire |
| ITL 3 | TLK72 Wiltshire |
| Local authority | Wiltshire |
| Electoral ward | Corsham Ladbrook |
| Westminster constituency | Chippenham |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 34 - Transport equipment and auxiliary products to transportation
- 80 - Education and training services

### Codes

- 34711100 - Aeroplanes
- 80520000 - Training facilities

## Release History

- 3 Oct 2025 at 13:20 - TenderCancellation - UK12 - Procurement Termination Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/062187-2025
- 22 Jul 2025 at 11:32 - Tender - UK4 - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/041978-2025
- 16 Apr 2025 at 09:58 - Planning - UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/015458-2025

## Documents

- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/062187-2025
  3rd October 2025 - Procurement termination notice on Find a Tender
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/041978-2025
  22nd July 2025 - Tender notice on Find a Tender
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/015458-2025
  16th April 2025 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender

## Notice URLs

- https://contracts.mod.uk/esop/guest/go/opportunity/detail?opportunityId=59870
- https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-defence
- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents

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