Fleet Solid Support Ships: Procurement

(asked on 28th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to recent naval incursions by Spanish vessels into UK territorial waters around Gibraltar, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of awarding the Fleet Solid Support Ship contract to a Spanish company.


Answered by
Stuart Andrew Portrait
Stuart Andrew
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
This question was answered on 2nd April 2019

The National Shipbuilding Strategy was clear that the Fleet Solid Support Ships will be subject to international competition. It makes no assumptions about where the ships will be built.

The competition that is now under way to procure the Fleet Solid Support Ships will be assessed fairly and in accordance with UK public procurement law. I am very pleased that a UK consortium is among the bidders.

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