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Tactical Water Support (TWS)

  • Defence Equipment and Support

UK1: Pipeline notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-022975

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-0517ee

Published 20 May 2025, 9:28am



Scope

Reference

61978978

Description

TWS will support the force operating in the land environment, wherever it may be deployed worldwide, by providing the capability to ensure self-sufficiency for water. This includes the capability to manage water from its raw source to the point at which potable and palatable water is required by the user. It will provide the ability to collect, hold, package, and distribute water within the unit.

Equipment will be provided by the Authority as Government Furnished Eqiupment (GFE), to be managed by the TWS Contractor under a Contractor Logistics Support (CLS) arrangement, with equipment held at agreed readiness levels.

Total value (estimated)

  • £26,400,000 excluding VAT
  • £31,700,000 including VAT

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 1 March 2027 to 31 August 2032
  • Possible extension to 31 August 2035
  • 8 years, 6 months

Main category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 42912300 - Machinery and apparatus for filtering or purifying water
  • 44613500 - Water containers
  • 50511000 - Repair and maintenance services of pumps
  • 50111000 - Fleet management, repair and maintenance services

Contract locations

  • UK - United Kingdom

Participation

Particular suitability

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)


Submission

Publication date of tender notice (estimated)

31 August 2025


Procedure

Special regime

Defence and security

Above or below total value threshold

Above or equal to threshold


Contracting authority

Defence Equipment and Support

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PVRL-5831-GLMM

MOD Abbey Wood

Bristol

BS34 8JH

United Kingdom

Region: UKK12 - Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire

Organisation type: Public authority - central government