Baggage-scanning equipment

Tender description

The Home Office, acting through Border Force, is procuring new national contracts for the maintenance of its legacy X-ray systems. The contracts are required to replace the previous arrangement, and each shall have a term of five (5) years with an option to extend at the HO's option for up to twelve (12) months. Border Force uses a range of X-ray Scanning Equipment in order to carry out its work at the Border. The scope of the Tender will include the following types of X-ray Scanning Systems: — Freight Pallet Scanners, — Baggage Scanners — parcels/small cargo, — Baggage Scanners mounted in a van, — Baggage Scanners mounted on a Baggage Belt. The X-ray Scanning Equipment has been purchased from the following manufacturers: — L-3 Communications Ltd, — Rapiscan Systems Ltd. The maintenance provision is required for equipment that is located throughout the UK and within the British Zone in Coquelles, France.