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title: "62498827 - Maritime Reliability Centred Maintenance Support Services"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-07834d"
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buyer: "Defence Equipment and Support"
published: "2026-10-15"
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# 62498827 - Maritime Reliability Centred Maintenance Support Services

Buyer: Defence Equipment and Support  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-07834d

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## Summary

Defence Equipment and Support is buying maritime engineering support services for the Maritime Engineering Headquarters. The work is to maintain safe, auditable maintenance arrangements across authorised Royal Navy, Royal Fleet Auxiliary, submarine, surface-ship and shore-establishment environments. It includes ongoing reliability-centred maintenance support, maintenance-system data stewardship, specialist maintenance advice, training, audits, Engineering Through Life Support, maintenance studies and managed assistance with moving from the Unit Maintenance Management System to the Defence Equipment Engineering and Asset Management System. This is a defence and engineering support requirement, delivered across maritime platforms and related shore establishments. The overall purpose is to sustain maintenance governance and data arrangements while the digital system changes.

The procurement is complete and was directly awarded to Xpedite Group of Companies Limited. The award is recorded as pending. The award date is not stated in the available award information. The stated award value is £36 million excluding VAT (£43.2 million including VAT). The awarded contract period runs from 3 January 2028 to 30 January 2033. The procurement is a single lot, with the contract period for the wider lot recorded as 31 March 2027 to 31 March 2032 and a maximum extent to 31 March 2034; renewal is allowed. Defence Equipment and Support justified the direct award on the basis that changing supplier during live operations and digital transformation would create disproportionate technical and operational difficulties, including recreating and validating arrangements and managing the system transition. The stated legal basis is Schedule 5, paragraph 7 of the Procurement Act 2023.

For suppliers preparing for a future requirement from Defence Equipment and Support, this award demonstrates demand for integrated maritime maintenance governance and engineering support through a complex digital transformation. A credible competitor would need to sustain reliable, auditable maintenance arrangements across Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary ships, submarines and shore establishments, while providing specialist reliability-centred maintenance expertise, system-data stewardship, studies, training, audit and Engineering Through Life Support. The buyer’s stated rationale makes continuity and transition capability especially important: suppliers would need to show they can manage operational risk, maintain and assure existing arrangements, and support controlled migration between maintenance-management systems without disrupting service. Experience working across defence maritime environments and handling sensitive, technically interdependent maintenance data would be commercially relevant. The process was directly awarded to an SME, and the lot was identified as suitable for SMEs.

## Notice

To support the Maritime Engineering HQ in maintaining safe, defensible and auditable maritime maintenance arrangements across authorised Royal Navy, Royal Fleet Auxiliary, submarine, surface-ship and shore-establishment environments. The requirement covers enduring Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) support, maintenance-management-system data stewardship, specialist maintenance advice, RCM training, auditing, Engineering Through Life Support (ETLS), RCM studies and controlled support to the transition from the Unit Maintenance Management System (UMMS) to the Defence Equipment Engineering and Asset Management System (DEEAMS).

### Procurement Information

The proposed contract is for the re-let of existing maritime governance and data support services during a live operational and digital transformation period. It is considered that the direct award of this contract is justified in accordance with Schedule 5, paragraph 7 of the Procurement Act 2023. A change in supplier during the transformation period would result in a materially different service outcome because the replacement supplier would need to recreate, validate and operate existing arrangements whilst supporting controlled migration to the new digital system. This difference would create disproportionate technical difficulties in operation, maintenance, assurance, data stewardship and transition for HM Ships, Submarines, Royal Fleet Auxiliary platforms and associated shore establishments. The Authority intends to compete the successor requirement in 2032, subject to successful completion and maturity of the transformation programme.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/097492-2026 |
| Notice type | UK5 - Transparency Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Direct |
| Procurement method details | Direct award |
| Tender suitability | SME |
| Awardee scale | SME |
| All stages | Planning, Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 15 Oct 2026 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | 26 Oct 2026 |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | 3 Jan 2028 - 30 Jan 2033 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £36,000,000 |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | £36,000,000 |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

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

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | Defence Equipment and Support |
| Locality | BRISTOL |
| Postcode area | Bristol |
| Postcode | BS34 8JH |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLK South West (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLK5 West of England |
| ITL 3 | TLK52 Bath & North East Somerset and South Gloucestershire |
| Local authority | South Gloucestershire |
| Electoral ward | Stoke Park & Cheswick |
| Westminster constituency | Filton and Bradley Stoke |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | Xpedite Group of Companies |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 71 - Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services

### Codes

- 71300000 - Engineering services
- 71336000 - Engineering support services

## Release History

- 15 Oct 2026 at 13:46 - Award - UK5 - Transparency Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/097492-2026
- 8 Oct 2026 at 08:57 - Planning - UK1 - Pipeline Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/095004-2026

## Documents

- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/097492-2026
  15th October 2026 - Transparency notice on Find a Tender
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/095004-2026
  8th October 2026 - Pipeline notice on Find a Tender

## Notice URLs

- https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/defence-equipment-and-support
- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents
- https://www.xpeditegoc.com/

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