The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has issued a Prior Information Notice (PIN) outlining plans to establish a new framework agreement for the procurement of Personal Hard Armour to support British Armed Forces personnel.
The framework could be worth up to £208 million, potentially rising to £250 million including VAT, over an eight-year period.
According to the notice, the agreement will be managed by Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) and is scheduled to run from 31 October 2025 to 30 October 2033. The framework is intended to streamline the MoD’s ability to source personal ballistic protection equipment quickly and efficiently while fostering innovation among industry suppliers.
The procurement will cover a wide range of personal protection products, including ballistic plates and associated gear. The MoD states that the aim is to enable both low- and high-volume procurement with the agility required to meet emerging operational needs.
Among the anticipated use cases are:
- Osprey body armour replacement
- Reduced threat level plates
- Buoyant armour plates for maritime operations
- Non-standard shaped plates including complex curvature designs
- Covert plates for discreet use
The MoD intends to establish what it calls a “non-committal open framework”, allowing approved suppliers to bid on future orders without committing the government to a guaranteed volume of purchases. The notice states that this is a preview announcement, with full tender details to be released at a later date via the UK government’s Find a Tender platform.
No deadline has yet been set.
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Sounds a reasonable cost considering the cost of training a soldier
Besides that the average length of service in the army is about 6 years so in some respects you’re equipping every soldier (and marine and, shudder, RAF reg punter) twice.
No, this is £208 million funding to *come up with a procurement framework* over 8 years. NOT to actually purchase armour for troops. Absolute piss take waste of money and time on something that really shouldn’t cost that much
The government need to take the previous body armour provider to court to get a refund. You can’t have ceramic armour plates with hairline cracks and defects.
Although this order is clearly needed it has to be offset by a return and refund of defective plate armour
That previous body armour, ECBA, was very old. First versions were introduced in the 1980s. Wear and tear affects everything.
ECBA should have been replaced in 2023.
Yup, and ECBA was replaced in anything even resembling a frontline role by Virtus years ago. AFAIK the only people using ECBA are MPGS and maybe some RAF, RN and maybe some non deployable roles in CSS branches.
It’s hardly a scandal.
Powerarmour here we come.
I assume the SAS will get it first?
UKSF generally have their own procurement streams, so more likely Rangers, 16AA, 2 Yorks and UKCF to get it first.