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Air Purification Maintenance - UKTN

  • Ministry of Defence

UK5: Transparency notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-051662

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-058eb8 (view related notices)

Published 27 August 2025, 3:34pm



Scope

Reference

715609451

Description

Relocation and maintenance of Air Purification Equipment


Contract 1. Air Purification Maintenance

Supplier

Contract value

  • £1,166,666.67 excluding VAT
  • £1,400,000 including VAT

Above the relevant threshold

Earliest date the contract will be signed

1 September 2025

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 1 September 2025 to 1 February 2026
  • Possible extension to 31 March 2026
  • 7 months

Description of possible extension:

The contract will include the option to extend by up to two months after the initial end date of 1 February 2026, giving a maximum duration up to 31 March 2026. The contract is set at an initial value of £1,166,666.67 ex VAT (£1,400,000.00 inc VAT) with the option to increase this to a total value of £ 2,025,000.00 ex VAT (£2,430,000.00 inc VAT) to allow for the purchase of additional goods/services as detailed in the contract.

Main procurement category

Works

CPV classifications

  • 45259200 - Purification-plant repair and maintenance work

Contract locations

  • UK - United Kingdom

Other information

Description of risks to contract performance

The following risks could occur which could affect contract delivery or performance:

Changes in laws or regulations resulting in a need to amend the Contract timescales, costs, deliverables or scope.

Unexpected delays to delivery timescales due to either Authority, Contractor or third party actions resulting in a need to amend the Contract timescales, costs, deliverables or scope.

Unexpected changes to costs due to either Authority, Contractor or third party actions resulting in a need to amend the Contract timescales, costs, deliverables or scope.

Unexpected changes to volume of deliverables due to either Authority, Contractor or third party actions resulting in a need to amend the Contract timescales, costs, deliverables or scope.

Unexpected changes to scope of deliverables due to either Authority, Contractor or third party actions resulting in a need to amend the Contract timescales, costs, deliverables or scope.

Conflicts assessment prepared/revised

Yes


Procedure

Procedure type

Direct award

Direct award justification

  • Single supplier - intellectual property or exclusive rights
  • Single supplier - technical reasons

The Royal Navy, part of the UK Ministry of Defence, intends to award a 5 month contract with a value of £1.4million to CMS2 for the Air Purification Equipment Maintenance.

As a covered procurement, this procurement falls to be regulated under the provisions of the Procurement Act 2023.

In the circumstances, the authority may award this public contract directly in accordance with section 41 of the Procurement Act 2023. The applicable direct award justification is that set out in paragraph 5 and 6 of Schedule 5 of the Act.

This justification applies because the Air Purification contract concerns the supply of services where CMS2:

a) Are the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) for the equipment installed at HMS SULTAN and asserts a claim of intellectual property rights; they are the only organisation that hold the information required to define the written scheme of examination or to conduct the maintenance, and

b) an absence of competition for technical reasons, only a particular supplier can supply the goods, services or works required

c) There are no reasonable alternatives as a result of this.

CMS2 and therefore are the only contractor able to determine the maintenance requirement (the written scheme of examination), and the maintenance specification, and are therefore the only company able to undertake for the maintenance.


Supplier

CMS2

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PMYB-6878-RZYR

Dolphin House, Williams Road

Portsmouth

PO3 5FP

United Kingdom

Region: UKJ31 - Portsmouth

Small or medium-sized enterprise (SME): No

Voluntary, community or social enterprise (VCSE): No

Contract 1. Air Purification Maintenance


Contracting authority

Ministry of Defence

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PHVX-4316-ZVGZ

Deck 2 NCHQ, Whale Island

Portsmouth

PO2 8BY

United Kingdom

Region: UKJ31 - Portsmouth

Organisation type: Public authority - central government