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eLoran Programme

Department for Science, Innovation & Technology · Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender

Tender information last checkedLast checked 3 Oct 2026, 07:07.

Opportunity overview

Build and operation of a nationally-owned UK eLORAN PNT system within the UK to provide resilient, terrestrial, sovereign, sustainable, and high-quality Position, Navigation and Timing

Classification

  • CPV38112100 — Global navigation and positioning systems (GPS or equivalent)

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-051748
Main Procurement Category
goods
Above Threshold
Yes
Status
planning

Legal basis

Id
2023/54
Scheme
UKPGA

Communication

Future Notice Date
1 May 2026, 23:59

Amendments

Entry 1
Description
This Notice is updated as follows: Following pre-market engagement meetings that took place with respondents to the notice, further information about the eLoran programme is now available. For details of this information please email NPNTO@dsit.gov.uk
Id
030149-2026

Lots and requirements

Entry 1
Id
1
Status
planning

Suitability

Sme
Yes

Contract period

Starts
30 Apr 2027, 00:00
Ends
31 Dec 2030, 23:59

Items and delivery

Item 1
Id
1
Related Lot
1

Additional Classifications

Entry 1
Scheme
CPV
Id
38112100
Description
Global navigation and positioning systems (GPS or equivalent)

Delivery locations

Entry 1
Region
UK
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom

Planning and budget

Milestones

Entry 1
Id
engagement
Type
engagement
Description
Introduction There is recognition within the UK and internationally that much critical national infrastructure is dependent in some way on Global Positioning System (GPS) and/or other Global navigation satellite system (GNSS). In October 2023, UK Govt published its new Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) Policy Framework which includes a “10 Point Plan” to enhance national PNT resilience . This plan includes: “develop a proposal for a resilient, terrestrial, and sovereign Enhanced Long Range Navigation (eLORAN) system to provide backup Position and Navigation” An eLORAN programme is being established within the National PNT Office with three main objectives: a. Build a Nationally-owned UK eLORAN PNT system with initial operating capability (IOC) by start of 2028 and full operating capability by 2030, that will provide resilient, terrestrial, sovereign, backup Position, Navigation and Timing for UK Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) and the wider economy and society. b. Ensure interoperability with other national and international eLORAN systems. c. Conduct research and development to ensure the long-term sustainability, continual improvement and expanded applications of the eLORAN system. Achieving these objectives will result in three primary outcomes: d. Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) resilient to the loss of GNSS provided timing. From 2027, a resilient, sovereign timing service provided to UK CNI from the Universal Coordinated time from National Physical Laboratory (UTC (NPL)) and eLORAN. e. CNI resilient to the loss of GNSS provided PNT. From 2029, a full eLORAN system to be built to provide backup PNT across the UK. f. New PNT use cases exploited. From 2030, the full eLORAN system can be exploited to find new innovative use cases that were previously inaccessible by PNT services by GNSS. The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology is currently developing the business case for an eLoran system, referred to herein as “eLORAN Programme”. To this end a set of potential services and associated mission requirements have been derived. These are presented at Annex A. For the avoidance of doubt, this notice is not informing the market of an imminent procurement. All costs pertaining to the completion of this response are to be borne by the responders. Please note, procurement dates and other data in this notice are subject to governance and should not be viewed as a firm commitment. This premarket engagement is purely to gain market knowledge and is not the launch of a new procurement. Timelines and technical requirements will be refined through market engagement. At this stage a contract start date April 2027 with an IOC in early 2028 is estimated. Respondents are invited to review these services and provide responses to the questions below, with whatever level of detail and means is considered appropriate by the respondent, considering the objective is to support development of the eLORAN Business Case. The questions are separated into two parts: • Part A: Technical considers the technical feasibility and processes of developing the stated capabilities. • Part B: Programmatic explores the projected costs and preferred commercial arrangements to deliver the capabilities. Queries If you have any queries or clarification questions with regards to providing a response to this questionnaire, please get in touch at NPNTO@dsit.gov.uk. The deadline for clarification questions is 30/05/25. Questions and responses will be provided to all participants, to ensure you have access to the same level of information. Submitting Responses & Timescales Responses should be submitted either as a word document or PDF to NPNTO@dsit.gov.uk Target for responses to Part A and B is 30/06/25 These are not deadlines; later responses will be considered, but respondent’s scope to influence the programme is reduced the later submissions are received. These responses will be reviewed by the cross-government eLoran programme team members to: • Identify potentially suitable candidate companies or proposals that might be able to meet the UK National eLORAN System requirements; • Identify potentially suitable candidate companies that would best support specialised functions in the larger UK National eLORAN System; • Inform further refinement of the National eLORAN Programme requirements and capabilities; • Identify concepts or proposals with different solutions than those previously considered; • clarify or expand understanding of potential relationships of national eLORAN systems dependencies and support to UK critical national infrastructure; • determine the pathway for the next stage of commercial engagement. Respondents should anticipate invitation to direct technical and commercial engagement with the National eLORAN Programme working group hosted by DSIT. The intention of this premarket engagement is to initiate the process to commercial competition leading to award of contract or contracts for a UK National eLORAN System commencing financial year 26/27.
Due
31 Dec 2025, 23:59
Status
scheduled

Documents

Entry 1
Id
030149-2026
Document Type
marketEngagementNotice
Notice Type
UK2
Description
Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
Published
1 Apr 2026, 10:10
Format
text/html

Buyer, suppliers and contacts

Organisation 1
Name
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
Id
GB-PPON-PVWZ-3216-PVQL

Identifier

Scheme
GB-PPON
Id
PVWZ-3216-PVQL

Address

Street Address
22 Whitehall
Locality
London
Postal Code
SW1A 2EG
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Region
UKI32

Contact

Roles

buyer

Details

Classifications

Entry 1
Scheme
UK_CA_TYPE
Id
publicAuthorityCentralGovernment
Description
Public authority - central government

Recorded locations

  • Buyer location · London · UKI32 · SW1A 2EG · United Kingdom
  • Delivery location · UK · United Kingdom

Notice and amendment history

1 published notice version reviewed by ProcuraAxis.

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