Legacy Red Black Blue and Marwan through Life Tender - 142969346

Procurement Summary

Country: United Kingdom

Summary: Legacy Red Black Blue and Marwan through Life Support - Early Market Engagement Questionnaire

Deadline: 11 Jun 2026

Posting Date: 10 Jun 2026

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Notice Type: Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 142969346

Document Ref. No.: 715612481 - RFI

Competition: ICB

Financier: Self Financed

Purchaser Ownership: Public

Tender Value: Refer Document

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Legacy Red Black Blue and Marwan Through Life Support - Early Market Engagement Questionnaire
Ministry of Defence (MOD), Defence Digital (DD), Deployed & Interoperability Services (D&IS) currently have two separate contracts for the provision of Legacy Through Life Support in place: - Red (LC2 - Win 7) Blue (CENTRIXS Win 10) and - Black - (Minerva Win7), MARWAN Component (Communication technology to allow connection to bearers of opportunity services) for Maritime capability. These cover three classification domains RED (LC2 providing services at SECRET UK Eyes Only), BLACK (Minerva providing services at OFFICIAL and OFFICIAL SENSITIVE); BLUE (CENTRIXS providing services at NATO and Coalition SECRET, also referred to as “MISSON SECRET”). The Authority requires that the legacy Maritime Systems for the above services continue to be sustained and fully supported during the transitional period until the NSOIT(D) OpNET capability achieves Full Operating Capability (FOC). The requirement is for the delivery of: Service Management/Operations and Through Life Support (TLS) services for deployable MOD IT systems centred around Maritime platforms (MINERVA, MARWAN, UK CENTRIXS, and LC2) together with the following associated Systems, Services, Gateways and Boundary Protection Devices (BPDs). - EJCP (Enhanced Joint Communications Processor) - ISCAS (Interoperability to Support Coexistence with the Authority) BPD - CDCIE (Cross Domain ...
Notes: Updated to V2.0 - Amendment of closing date for RFI responses (11/06/26 @ 16:00hrs) only. Presently the Authority has contracts for provision of Deployed Legacy Through Life Support off MOD premise covering Red, Black and Blue in place and is finalising its contract requirements for future service provision for an estimated/ approximate initial term in the range of 2 years to 3 years with 2 x optional up to 1 year extension periods (or broadly equivalent commercial construct). This will be with a view to the publication of a Contract Opportunity Notice (Exempt Procurement) requesting Procurement Specific Questionnaire (PSQ) responses in relation to future service provision. This Early Market Engagement Notice is supplemented by an Early Market Engagement Questionnaire inviting Industry responses to assist the Authority in further developing its understanding of the market, and market appetite, for the provision of either: - A single combined legacy contract covering Red (LC2), CENTRIXS (Blue) and Black (Minerva) and MARWAN services; or - Individual contracts as structured today - RED (LC2 Win 7) CENTRIXS Blue (Win 10) and Black (Minerva Win7) and MARWAN services for Maritime Deployed Legacy Through Life Support Services. The Early Market Engagement Questionnaire will additionally seek feedback, recommendations, risks and opportunities that respondents can identify in relation to this future requirement. Procurement Route is listed as `Other`, howeve...

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