Section one: Contracting authority/entity
one.1) Name, addresses and contact point(s)
Ministry of Defence
Abbey Wood
Bristol
BS34 8JH
For the attention of
Ryan Miller
Email(s)
Country
United Kingdom
one.2) Type of the contracting authority
Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
one.3) Main activity
Defence
Section two: Object of the contract
two.1) Description
two.1.1) Title attributed to the contract
Defence Equipment Engineering Asset Management Service
(DEEAMS)
two.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance
Services
Service category No 3: Defence services, military defence services and civil defence services
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance
MOD Abbey Wood, Bristol, BS34 8JH
NUTS code
- UK - United Kingdom
two.1.4) Short description of the contract or purchase(s)
The Defence Equipment Engineering and Asset Management System (DEEAMS) requirement will deliver the core technical solution for pan-Defence Engineering Through Life Support (ETLS). DEEAMS is the first of 5 Enterprise Wide Support Services (EWSS) which are part of the Business Modernisation for Support (BMfS) transformational programme.
DEEAMS will initiate Support Advantage for Engineering by cohering ETLS across Defence by adopting a single solution underpinned by Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) product(s) which delivers the best-in-class commercial sector business processes Out Of The Box (OOTB).
DEEAMS will improve Defence Support efficiency and Defence asset availability which includes all major equipment (88 fixed wing, 300+ rotary wing aircraft, 4,000+ land vehicles, 75+ ships) and minor equipment (more than 200,000 equipment types equating to more than 1.6m individual assets).
DEEAMS will rationalise the existing MOD IT application landscape not only replacing the existing 3-core Equipment & Asset & Management Systems (JAMES, UMMS, GOLDesp) but also a substantial number (20+) of discrete applications and paper-based systems.
two.1.5) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
- 72222300 - Information technology services
Additional CPV code(s)
- 48610000 - Database systems
- 48612000 - Database-management system
- 72222300 - Information technology services
two.2) Total final value of contract(s)
two.2.1) Total final value of contract(s)
Value: £188,497,635.24
Excluding VAT
Section four: Procedure
Type of procedure
Negotiated with publication of a contract notice
four.2) Award criteria
four.2.1) Award criteria
The most economically advantageous tender in terms of
1. Commercial. Weighting 15
2. Social Value. Weighting 10
3. Technical Deliverability. Weighting 35
4. Technical Solution Quality. Weighting 20
5. Cost. Weighting 20
four.2.2) Information about electronic auction
An electronic auction has been used: no
four.3) Administrative information
four.3.1) File reference number attributed by the contracting authority
711315450
four.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract
Prior information notice
Notice number: 2023/S 000-006742 of 8 March 2023
Section five: Award of contract
Contract No
711315450
five.1) Date of contract award decision
30 September 2025
five.2) Information about offers
Number of offers received
2
Number of offers received by electronic means
2
five.3) Name and address of economic operator in favour of whom the contract award decision has been taken
IBM United Kingdom Limited
Building C IBM Hursley Office, Hursley Park Road
Winchester
SO21 2JN
Country
United Kingdom
Companies House
00741598
five.4) Information on value of contract
Total final value of the contract
Value: £188,497,635.24
Excluding VAT
If annual or monthly value
Number of months: 66
five.5) Information about subcontracting
The contract is likely to be sub-contracted: No