PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

708621450 - British LAIRCM In Service Support (BLISS) IV Contract Award Notice

Ministry of Defence · published 23 Jan 2025. This page preserves the identifiers and current held fields for one Contracts Finder release; it is not an invoice, performance assessment or complete contract history.

Contracts Finder release IDa7a5f591-06e8-4b15-9850-ac34fe8a6a9a-819913
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-c51f6270-417a-4270-9446-61267aa2b22f
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-249862
Release typeaward
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

Values stay separate.

A tender estimate and an award value answer different questions. Neither is treated as cash paid.

Award value
£39,200,000
award field
Tender value
£39,200,000
tender field
Procurement method
Single tender action (below threshold)
Category
services
CPV
50211200
Aircraft repair services
Delivery
Not stated
BS34 8JH
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

Air Platform Systems Delivery Team (APS DT), part of the Ministry of Defence ("the Authority"), has placed a four-year contract with Northrup Grumman for the in-service support and Post Design Services of Large Aircraft Infra-Red Counter-Measure (LAIRCM) Block 10 ("the Contract") including repair, maintenance, technical engineering support, training, and associated spares provision.

Tender statuscomplete
STAGE-DATE LEDGER

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  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release23 Jan 2025
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published20 Dec 2024
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published1 Jan 2025
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published31 Dec 2028
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

Published names and exact identifiers

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Published name only

Northrup Grumman

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SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 23 Jan 2025 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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