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title: "Commercial X Dynamic Market"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-054901"
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current_stage: "Award"
buyer: "MINISTRY OF DEFENCE"
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# Commercial X Dynamic Market

Buyer: MINISTRY OF DEFENCE  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-054901

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## Summary

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.

## Notice

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.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/038211-2025 |
| 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 |
| All stages | Tender, Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 8 Jul 2025 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 8 Jul 2025 |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Active |
| Lots status | Active |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | MINISTRY OF DEFENCE |
| Locality | LONDON |
| Post town | South West London |
| Postcode | SW1A 2EU |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLI London |
| ITL 2 | TLI3 Inner London - West |
| ITL 3 | TLI35 Westminster and City of London |
| Local authority | Westminster |
| Electoral ward | St James's |
| Westminster constituency | Cities of London and Westminster |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 39 |
| Supplier names | 4C EUROPE; ACCELLEO; ADVAI; BAE SYSTEMS APPLIED INTELLIGENCE; BBI SOLUTIONS OEM; BLUE BEAR SYSTEMS RESEARCH; BY LIGHT TECHNOLOGIES; C SOFTWARE; C3 SYSTEMS CONSULTING; CAMBRIDGE CONSULTANTS; CAPTEC; CODA SECURITY; COMPTECH SOLUTIONS; CONSORTIUM X; CORETECH SECURITY SERVICES; ERNEST WEST & BEYNON,LIMITED; FLUID GRAVITY ENGINEERING; FOCA PARTNERS; FRAYM; HELSING; HELYX SECURE INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HOLTEX; INNOVATION & DESIGN ENGINEERING; LEIDOS INNOVATIONS; MARINE & REMOTE SENSING SOLUTIONS; MIND FOUNDRY; OPTIMA SYSTEMS CONSULTANCY; ORIGAMI LABS; PDP PROJECTS; SERCO; SIERRA NEVADA CORPORATION MISSION SYSTEMS; SOMERFORD ASSOCIATES; SQUARCLE CONSULTING; SYNTHETIK APPLIED TECHNOLOGIES; THE LAB CORPORATIONS; THORNTON TOMASETTI DEFENCE; XEWLI; XSOLUTIONS365 LIMITED T/A CREATEFUTURE; ZEST CONSULT |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 73 - Research and development services and related consultancy services

### Codes

- 73100000 - Research and experimental development services

## Release History

- 8 Jul 2025 at 11:11 - Award - UK14 - Dynamic Market Establishment Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/038211-2025
- 16 Jun 2025 at 09:00 - Tender - UK13 - Dynamic Market Intention Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/032475-2025

## Documents

- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/038211-2025
  8th July 2025 - Dynamic market establishment notice on Find a Tender
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/032475-2025
  16th June 2025 - Dynamic market intention notice on Find a Tender

## Notice URLs

- https://contracts.mod.uk/
- https://contracts.mod.uk/esop/toolkit/opportunity/current/59965/detail.si
- https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=7WB3vlNZS0iuldChbfoJ5WWitfgCjXBAtgF4DXF-anFUMFVMNkNJUjNDQUpHN1pYNTdWVVRNUzJLUy4u
- https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-defence
- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents

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