Tender: MOD Gladiator System Sustainment and SPARTAN Maritime Distributed Synthetic Training Hub – 5-Year Managed Service

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Ministry of Defence is seeking a supplier for the Gladiator & SPARTAN Core Systems and Services contract to sustain and enhance the MOD-owned Gladiator distributed synthetic operational training capability, integrate platforms to exploit that capability, support interoperability across defence forces, and adapt the system to emergent synthetic training use cases including a potential Royal Navy SPARTAN maritime requirement. Gladiator links simulators to a central hub to deliver high-fidelity, secure, multi-domain team and collective training at scale, and SPARTAN will leverage Gladiator technology to build a Distributed Synthetic Training Hub to deliver maritime collective training to Royal Navy surface units, including scenario development, delivery and debriefing via Tactical Data Links and, where required, the development and integration of additional simulation applications, digital assets, scenarios and terrains. The contract will be awarded through a competitive flexible procedure under the Procurement Act 2023 as a managed service for an initial 5 years with a discretionary 2-year extension; certain information is classified up to and including SECRET (UK or NATO) and Personal Security Clearances are required (suppliers must hold or obtain PSCs), the Cyber Risk Profile is High (RAR-250303A03), TUPE is anticipated, and the PSQ has closed and will not be re-opened.