Estimated Value
Up to £444,550
Deadline
Not specified
Published
2 November 2026
Type
Not specified
At a glance
- Buyer
- Ministry of Defence
- Estimated value
- £444,550
- Published
- 2 November 2026
- Location
- South West
- Type
- selective procedure
- Contract ends
- 31 March 2027 (expect a re-tender before then)
- Likely incumbent
- Rowden Technologies Ltd, current contract ends June 2028
- Latest notice
- UK6 contract award notice (Procurement Act 2023)
- Published on
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Full Description
Project Vesta will establish a Defence-wide M&S knowledge base that provides a single authoritative and discoverable view of M&S activity. The intended capability is a coherent M&S knowledge ecosystem in which:
- M&S activities are registered and described consistently
- Information is recorded against an agreed metadata standard
- MoD users can discover relevant projects, programmes, models, simulations, data, tools, capabilities and associated expertise
- Existing M&S assets can be identified for potential reuse
- DMSC and its key stakeholders can access information to support delivery of impartial advice and guidance, governance, assurance and coherence efforts
- Assurance, verification and validation processes can be managed and recorded
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Award Details
£444,550
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Likely incumbents
Suppliers who won similar work from this buyer in the last 5 years.
- 1
ROWDEN TECHNOLOGIES LTD
£48m
total awarded
- 2
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total awarded
- 3
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ROWDEN TECHNOLOGIES LTD is the most likely incumbent based on recency and category match. To win, bidders typically need a clearly differentiated proposition or a price advantage.
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Ministry of DefenceKey Dates
Published
2 November 2026
Submission deadline
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