Source: https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a13c66-73dd-70b5-9599-c5edb4c1d6be/queen-elizabeth-carrier-personnel-accounting-and-location-trial awarded GB negotiated without publication procedure Suitable for SMEs # Queen Elizabeth Carrier Personnel Accounting and Location Trial [Ministry of Defence](https://tendernation.io/buyers/ministry-of-defence) Estimated value £350,442 Published 5 Jan 2021 Deadline Closed 9 Dec 2020 ## Who can bid - Buyer says suitable for SMEs The buyer ticked “suitable for SMEs” on the notice. Anyone can still bid. [More contracts for small businesses and VCSEs](https://tendernation.io/opportunities/for-small-businesses) ## About this tender TRANSPARENCY PURPOSE ONLY - Contract Award - The Royal Navy, part of the UK Ministry of Defence, intends to award a 1 year contract to Kinsetsu for the provision of products and services to HMS QNLZ in the research and development of the Personnel Accounting and Logistics (PAL) System to mitigate existing safety issues. It is considered that this contract can be awarded using the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice pursuant to regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Article 32(2)(b)(ii) of Directive 2014/24/EU) for technical reasons including the near technical impossibility for another economic operator to achieve the required performance and the specific interoperability requirements which must be fulfilled in order to ensure the functioning of the to be procured. This is because the Royal Navy needs to be able to install, operate and maintain the same system that is fitted on HMS PWLS. It is to provide rapid mitigation to an Operating Duty Holder Risk to Life, and Kinsetsu are the only accredited provider for a PAL system, based on the very specific interoperability between the Ships and it's systems. There are no other suppliers who are accredited who can provide this system. ## CPV classification Safety equipment Source Contracts Finder (UK) [View official notice](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/10eff54e-b1aa-40da-a907-f2d2670c248f) Never miss a tender like this again Get AI summaries, deadline alerts and a bid pipeline for tenders matched to your business. Free to start. [Track tenders free](https://tendernation.io/register) [Buyer profile Ministry of Defence: past awards and live tenders](https://tendernation.io/buyers/ministry-of-defence) [Sector More Security, fire & defence equipment tenders](https://tendernation.io/sectors/security-fire-defence-equipment) ## More tenders like this [Protective and safety clothing – Suministro de 540 trajes especiales de intervención en incendios para el departamento de bomberos, prevención, intervención en emergencias y protección civil. · Junta de Gobierno del Ajuntament de València · 30 days left · 18 Nov 2026](https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a156a9-63bd-724d-bc08-59133ce7ac31/spain-protective-and-safety-clothing-suministro-de-540-trajes-especiales-de) [Individual equipment – ΔΙΑΚΗΡΥΞΗ ΕΠΑΝΑΛΗΠΤΙΚΟΥ ΔΙΕΘΝΟΥΣ ΑΝΟΙΧΤΟΥ ΔΙΑΓΩΝΙΣΜΟΥ · ΓΕΝΙΚΗ ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΙΑ ΑΝΤΕΓΚΛΗΜΑΤΙΚΗΣ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗΣ · 16 days left · 4 Nov 2026](https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a156a9-6dc9-73e3-bd1a-4a9f0d3f0fae/greece-individual-equipment-diakhryksh-epanalhptiku-diethnus-anixtu-diagon) [Surveillance and security systems and devices – NABAVA I UGRADNJA SUSTAVA ZA ELEKTRONSKU EVIDENCIJU PRAŽNJENJA SPREMNIKA · Grad Zagreb · 11 days left · 30 Oct 2026](https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a156a9-92a5-7389-9970-6f4a2ce802fc/croatia-surveillance-and-security-systems-and-devices-nabava-i-ugradnja-sust) [Safety vests – Suministro de chalecos de intervención e interiores DGP · Departament d'Interior i Seguretat Pública · 30 days left · 18 Nov 2026](https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a156a9-61b4-724e-ab4e-ff02089e9be9/spain-safety-vests-suministro-de-chalecos-de-intervencion-e-interiores-dgp) [Protective and safety clothing – Feuerwehrschutzkleidung (PSA Leasing + Wäsche) für die Feuerwehren der Samtgemeinde Elm-Asse · Landkreis Wolfenbüttel für die Samtgemeinde Elm-Asse · 36 days left · 24 Nov 2026](https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a156a9-66fb-729f-9dd3-f1985c19c1f5/germany-protective-and-safety-clothing-feuerwehrschutzkleidung-psa-leasing) [Security cameras – Vytvorenie centrálnej dátovej platformy a trvalý monitoring kvality ovzdušia, analýzy dopravy, parkovania a bezpečnosti · Mesto Banská Štiavnica · 39 days left · 27 Nov 2026](https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a156a9-6f8f-712d-aeb5-2edd67d6a870/slovakia-security-cameras-vytvorenie-centralnej-datovej-platformy-a-trvaly-m)