Procurement

Defence Test and Evaluation Service Future (DTES)(F)

Defence Equipment and Support

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-050df5

Description

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has an enduring requirement for the provision of Test and Evaluation (T&E) services. T&E is core to all Defence equipment programmes to ensure the reliability and fitness for purpose of the equipment it uses.

The MOD has established a T&E Transformation Programme which is reviewing how T&E will be delivered in the future and how new, innovative technologies can improve and enhance current capability to enable T&E for military advantage rather than solely for equipment acceptance.

The Transformation Programme is developing a new requirement for the provision of future T&E services and there is an opportunity for Industry to help shape this. The MOD has identified the following potential grouping of T&E services to facilitate a conversation with industry, but this is not exhaustive and will likely evolve because of our engagement:

• Virtual T&E Platform: Common infrastructure, architecture, assets and capabilities required to support modelling and simulation-based T&E.

• Live T&E Platform: Centrally funded estate, range infrastructure and T&E capability to support real world testing and data capture for evaluation and model validation.

• Deployable T&E Platform: Common enablers of T&E capabilities that can be deployed and user-operated anywhere.

Notices

UK2: Preliminary market engagement notice

Notice identifier: 2026/S 000-001550
Published: 8 January 2026, 3:20pm

UK1: Pipeline notice

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-020060
Published: 9 May 2025, 1:10pm

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