Published date: 12 February 2024

Closed future opportunity - This means that a potential contract has passed its approach to market date. A buyer can choose to consider any supplier interest or convert this notice into an opportunity ready for live procurement.


Approach to market date: 22 February 2024

Contract summary

Industry

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    • Military defence services - 75221000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£20,000,000 to £24,000,000

Procurement reference

tender_413802/1313394

Published date

12 February 2024

Approach to market date

22 February 2024

Contract start date

19 August 2024

Contract end date

18 August 2028

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

PIN for Nexus Sustain Air Cloud Hosting Environment and Air Information Platform:

NEXUS is a capability package that will create decision superiority by delivering relevant information and capabilities to war fighters.

There are 5 work packages which will form Nexus and will be procured. This PIN relates to Work package 2: Sustain Air Cloud Hosting Environment (ACHE) and Air Information Platform (AIP):

The sustain activities include level 1 and 2 maintenances of both the hardware (ACHE) and software (AIP and visualisations). This activity also includes the associated regression testing, software validation, and deployment of the new AIP software, including any externally developed capability enhancements (e.g., those developed under Grow AIP). All software pushed to production must be delivered through the Sustain ACHE and AIP activities.

About the buyer

Contact name

Royal Air Force (RAF) Nexus

Address

HQ Air Command
High Wycombe
HP14 1UE
England

Email

rafdigital-nexusgmb@mod.gov.uk