NP Aerospace, the worldwide car integrator and armour producer, has at this time introduced the award of a £71 million wheeled car help contract referred to as the Standard Automobile Programs Spares and Submit Design Companies (CVSSP) contract. The contract, let by the UK MoD Defence Tools and Assist (DE&S), was competitively tendered with bids submitted by main gamers throughout the UK defence trade. The contract length is 4 years with two choices to increase past that, of an extra one yr every.
Collage of the autos and gear lined within the CCVSSP contract.
This can be a joint announcement along with UK MoD that coincides with the DVD exhibition happening at Millbrook, 18-19 September 2024. At DVD NP Aerospace are exhibiting on stand OR13 on the offroad space.
The UK MoD CVSSP contract will see NP Aerospace ship Submit Design Companies (PDS), Design Authority (DA) and Spares Procurement Companies to a fleet of over 15,000 UK MoD core autos together with: your complete Land Rover fleet; Pinzgauer fleet; protected Land Rover; RWMIK and the Light-weight Trailer fleet. The CVSSP contract consolidates and amalgamates former particular person MoD PDS contracts offering a brand new single level of contact. Obsolescence administration is a key problem with a few of the MoD’s ageing fleets and the CVSSP contract will make sure that car fleet availability is maintained on the required ranges to fulfill the operational and coaching wants.
In 2019 NP Aerospace received an identical car help contract often known as Protected Mobility Engineering & Technical Assist (PMETS) that has since been efficiently supporting the MoD’s fleet of over 2000 Protected Mobility Autos. The autos lined below the PMETS contract embrace Mastiff, Wolfhound, Ridgback, Buffalo, Choker, RODET, Foxhound, Jackal, Coyote and Husky. Having been efficiently delivering PMETS for 5 years, NP Aerospace is now completely positioned to align the newly awarded CVSSP contract alongside PMETS utilizing tried and examined procedures which have already gained the boldness of the UK MoD.
This contract award will create and maintain jobs at NP Aerospace’s Coventry facility. The corporate’s amenities may even be expanded in the end to allow, combine and ship this new contract.
The UK Minister for Defence Procurement and Business, Rt Hon Maria Eagle MP, mentioned: “We are going to ship a state-of-the-art fight car fleet, guaranteeing our troopers are outfitted with cutting-edge firepower, safety, and mobility”. She added: “This new contract will assist to safe the way forward for these essential capabilities, streamlining the processes concerned in repairs and upgrades, whereas boosting UK financial development on the similar time.”
Brigadier Matt Wilkinson from the Automobile Assist Staff at Defence, Tools and Assist, mentioned: “We’ve got a long-standing relationship with NP Aerospace and I’m delighted that we’re in a position to proceed this partnership. Not solely does it present the very best service to the Armed Forces, but it surely additionally aligns with the MOD’s future Land Industrial Technique initiatives, together with an evolution to Land Built-in Working Companies.”
James Kempston, CEO at NP Aerospace, commented: “This announcement is big information for the group at NP Aerospace and we’re all delighted to have received this main contract in opposition to sturdy competitors. It exhibits the excessive regard by which our providers are held by the UK MoD, and that we ship greatest worth for our buyer. He added:
“The CVSSP contract aligns properly with NP Aerospace’s skills to help the MOD’s future LIOS initiative and the Land Mobility, and Land Industrial Technique. The CVSSP award along with our present PMETS contract gives NP Aerospace with the publish design help contracts masking the overwhelming majority of the UK MoD’s light-weight wheeled utility, and guarded mobility car fleets.”
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