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Chesterfield Gas Cylinders

Defence Equipment and Support · Transparency notice on Find a Tender

Tender information last checkedLast checked 25 Sept 2026, 11:16.

Opportunity overview

CSC is the sole economic operator capable of delivering PDS activities due to its role as the approved Design Organisation (DO) and OEM, holding the design licence, technical drawings, product knowledge, and in-service reliability data for the equipment. Any alternative supplier would require licences from both CSC and the air system OEMs, incur significant additional costs, and need to demonstrate suitability as a DO. An option to separate spare parts procurement from the PDS function was considered and rejected by the MoD Engineering Authority due to significant airworthiness, safety, and interoperability risks. The air system Design Organisation specifies exact part numbers that are manufactured exclusively by CSC to approved drawings and processes, making CSC the only supplier capable of providing compliant spares. CSC also holds the specialist tooling required to manufacture these components and ensure configuration and quality control. Introducing an alternative supplier would require costly and complex aircraft design revalidation, part requalification, and approval activities, with no guarantee of acceptance by the air system DO. This would create unacceptable safety and operational risks, including potential aircraft grounding, while imposing disproportionate cost and technical burden on the Authority.

Awarded to

Amounts belong to published awards or contracts. Where several suppliers share one value, it is labelled as shared and is not a supplier-specific allocation.

Chesterfield Special Cylinders Ltd

Matched by number
Published award value
£2m
Awarded
Not supplied
Award ID
1
Status
pending
Identifier
GB-COH 04869273
Location
Sheffield, UKE32, S9 1BT, United Kingdom

Classification

No classification was supplied.

Lots

  • Lot 1Value not stated

Documents and notices

Published notice details

Additional information from the published procurement release. Fields appear only when supplied by the source; check the original notice and tender documents before acting.

Scope, procedure and submissions

Id
ocds-h6vhtk-077a27
Status
complete
Procurement Method
direct
Procurement Method Details
Direct award
Why this procedure was chosen
The Support Capabilities and Commodities Team within National Armaments Director Group (NADG), part of the UK Ministry of Defence (the “Authority”), intends to award a contract to Chesterfield Specialist Cylinders Limited (“CSC”) (the “Contractor”) for minor specification redesign, Post Design Services (PDS) and associated procurement of spares relating to the uplift of aircraft cylinder specifications. The total value of the contract is £1,997,450.00 Ex VAT. CSC currently supplies the goods and services in question to the Authority under a contract valued at £797,500 that is due to expire in October 2027 and is being extended for 6 months until April 2028. The Authority sent a request for information (“RFI”) to market participants as a means of gauging interest in alternative delivery mechanisms but received no responses. In accordance with Section 41(1)(a) of the Procurement Act 2023 (the “Act”), the Authority intends to rely on the Single Supplier direct award justification, as set out in Paragraph 6 of Schedule 5 of the Act, to award this additional requirement directly to CSC. CSC is the sole economic operator capable of delivering this requirement due to its role as the approved Design Organisation (DO) and Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), holding the design licence, technical drawings, product knowledge, and in-service reliability data for the equipment. CSC also holds the specialist tooling required to manufacture these components and ensure configuration and quality control. Given the complexity, age, and airworthiness-critical nature of the equipment, there is no alternative supplier that could acquire the necessary expertise, design authority, trend history, and regulatory approvals within acceptable timescales without unacceptable safety, interoperability, and operational risks to the armed forces, including potential aircraft grounding.

Legal basis

Id
2023/54
Scheme
UKPGA

Special regime

defenceSecurity

Procedure reasons

Entry 1
Id
singleSuppliersTechnicalReasons

Lots and requirements

Entry 1
Id
1
Status
complete

Published documents

Entry 1
Id
conflictOfInterest
Document Type
conflictOfInterest
Description
Not published

Buyer, suppliers and contacts

Organisation 1
Name
Defence Equipment and Support
Id
GB-PPON-PVRL-5831-GLMM

Identifier

Scheme
GB-PPON
Id
PVRL-5831-GLMM

Address

Street Address
MOD Abbey Wood
Locality
Bristol
Postal Code
BS34 8JH
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Region
UKK12

Contact

Roles

buyer

Details

Classifications

Entry 1
Scheme
UK_CA_TYPE
Id
publicAuthorityCentralGovernment
Description
Public authority - central government
Organisation 2
Name
Chesterfield Special Cylinders Ltd
Id
GB-COH-04869273

Identifier

Scheme
GB-COH
Id
04869273

Address

Street Address
Meadowhall Road
Locality
Sheffield
Postal Code
S9 1BT
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Region
UKE32

Contact

Telephone
01142427500

Roles

supplier

Details

Scale
large
Vcse
No

Award information

Award 1
Id
1
Status
pending
Main Procurement Category
goods
Above Threshold
Yes

Items

Item 1
Id
1
Related Lot
1

Additional Classifications

Entry 1
Scheme
CPV
Id
35111300
Description
Fire extinguishers

Value

Including VAT
2,396,940
Amount
1,997,450
Currency
GBP

Suppliers

Supplier 1
Id
GB-COH-04869273
Name
Chesterfield Special Cylinders Ltd

Contract period

Starts
31 Oct 2027, 00:00
Ends
30 Apr 2028, 23:59

Related lots

1

Documents

Entry 1
Id
090832-2026
Document Type
awardNotice
Notice Type
UK5
Description
Transparency notice on Find a Tender
Published
25 Sept 2026, 09:59
Format
text/html

Milestones

Entry 1
Id
1
Type
futureSignatureDate
Due
31 Oct 2027, 23:59
Status
scheduled

Recorded locations

  • Buyer location · Bristol · UKK12 · BS34 8JH · United Kingdom

Notice and amendment history

1 published notice version reviewed by ProcuraAxis.

1 VERSION
  1. 090832-2026Transparency notice on Find a Tender ·