Award

Equipment Cabinets and Enclosures

  • Defence Science and Technology Laboratory

UK6: Contract award notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-050125

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-050470 (view related notices)

Published 20 August 2025, 11:58am



Scope

Reference

RQ0000077037

Description

Dstl has a requirement for the design, assembly and supply of a number of a 31U high 19 inch equipment cabinets, each containing seven electronic enclosures, and separately a Human Computer Interface (HCI), all built to a defined specification that will be provided with the full SOR.

The cabinet and enclosures are intended for use by the MOD and are to be designed to meet defence standards in accordance with DEFSTAN 08-107 Iss3. The equipment shall be designed to meet environmental criteria and will need to be subjected to EMC and environmental testing (temperature & vibration) in accordance with DEFSTAN 59-411 and 08-123.

The internal enclosures will consist of five custom electronic enclosures each with a design provided by Dstl but for the supplier to design the mechanical layout and wiring assembly arrangements; space for a 9U processing chassis provided by Dstl; and a chilled water heat exchanger.

The cabinet will need to be designed for two modes for cooling the equipment to account for the different environments that the system can be operated in. Either air cooled - air flows into and out of the cabinet therefore expelling wild heat into the surrounding area. Or chilled water cooling - air recirculates inside the cabinet to cool the enclosures, but heat is taken out of the cabinet by chilled water heat exchangers.


Contract 1

Supplier

Contract value

  • £1,649,818 excluding VAT
  • £1,979,781.60 including VAT

Above the relevant threshold

Award decision date

18 August 2025

Date assessment summaries were sent to tenderers

19 August 2025

Standstill period

  • End: 1 September 2025
  • 8 working days

Earliest date the contract will be signed

3 September 2025

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 4 September 2025 to 4 August 2028
  • 2 years, 11 months, 1 day

Main procurement category

Goods

Additional procurement category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 31720000 - Electromechanical equipment

Contract locations

  • UK - United Kingdom

Information about tenders

  • 6 tenders received
  • 6 tenders assessed in the final stage:
    • 3 submitted by small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)
    • 0 submitted by voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSE)
  • 1 supplier awarded contracts
  • 5 suppliers unsuccessful (details included for contracts over £5 million)

Submission

Submission type

Requests to participate


Procedure

Procedure type

Competitive flexible procedure

Special regime

Defence and security


Supplier

STEATITE LIMITED

  • Companies House: 04403746

Steatite Ltd, Acanthus Road, Ravensbank Business Park,

Redditch,

B98 9EX

United Kingdom

Region: UKG12 - Worcestershire

Small or medium-sized enterprise (SME): No

Voluntary, community or social enterprise (VCSE): No

Supported employment provider: No

Public service mutual: No

Contract 1


Contracting authority

Defence Science and Technology Laboratory

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PDDM-1961-MTLN

Porton Down

Salisbury

SP4 0JQ

United Kingdom

Region: UKK15 - Wiltshire CC

Organisation type: Public authority - central government