§ Earl Attleeasked Her Majesty's Government:
How many recovery vehicle variants were required in the original invitation to tender (ITT) for 70WA the Ministry of Defence's support vehicle project; and how many are in the current ITT. [HL3673]
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence (Lord Bach)The support vehicle invitation to tender stated a requirement for medium and heavy variants of Recovery vehicles and this has remained extant. Bidders have since been asked to indicate the effect to their stated unit prices of a reduction of up to 20 per cent in the Recovery Vehicle fleet, to allow a full value-for-money assessment to be undertaken.
§ Lord Astor of Heverasked Her Majesty's Government:
When a procurement announcement will be made on the support vehicle programme. [HL3841]
§ Lord BachI refer the noble Lord to the Answer I gave to the Earl Attlee on 20 July, (Official Report, col. WA 26).