Materiel Strategy - Managed Service Provider - Work Package 1 - Project Delivery - Land

Background

The UK MOD's Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) organisation has a requirement to appoint a number of Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to transform and improve the operation of its project delivery. For this requirement project delivery is used to describe the totality of the products and services that DE&S delivers to MOD, be it procuring new military equipment, commodities and services, supporting in-service equipment through-life or managing global logistics operations.

This requirement is part of the DE&S's wider Materiel Strategy change programme. Under the change programme, the DE&S organisation has been established as a Bespoke Central Government Trading Entity within the public sector from 01/04/14, with new management freedoms and controls that are appropriate to its challenges and the specialist nature of its business.

Requirement

The Work Package is split into four contracts covering project delivery of each of the four Domains – Land, Fleet, Air and Joint Enablers.

The MSPs will be a key provider of the services / requirements driving the DE&S Materiel Strategy change programme. They will drive a step-change improvement of project delivery across DE&S, be it procuring new military equipment, commodities and services, supporting in-service equipment through-life or managing global logistics operations. The MSPs will design, build, implement, help operate and embed a system of project management techniques and project controls across DE&S that will improve effectiveness and efficiency of its output delivery.