Hazardous Duty Life Jackets – Exporting Opportunity

Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: United Kingdom

1. Title: HAZARDOUS DUTY LIFE JACKETS – EXPORTING OPPORTUNITY
2. Awarding Authority: Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills acting on behalf of UK Trade & Investment (UKTI), GB. Web:
3. Contract type: Supply contract
4. Description: Opportunity type Public Sector
Industry Defence, Maritime
A defence authority has invited a tender for 200 hazardous duty life jackets.
A defence authority require unobtrusive automatically inflated lifejackes, for use where armed forces personnel need a low profile.
This will cover:
ship’s maintenance
boarding ops
seamanship evolution
high speed boat operations
when a fall could render the wearer unconscious and unable to manually activate the lifejacket
Basic requirements
The hazardous life jacket must have:
twin buoyancy stalls in a halter neck style valise, fitted with oral inflation tubes
a whistle and inflation mechanism with a manual override facility
The webbing waist belt must incorporate
a NATO standard helicopter lifting loop
a reliable and well proven buckle closure
It is to be made entirely from highly durable proofed synthetic materials.
The cost of the tender document is £10.
5. CPV Code(s): 39525300, 18223200
6. NUTS code(s): UKC, UKD, UKE, UKF, UKG, UKH, UKI, UKJ, UKK, UKL, UKM, UKN
7. Main site or location of works, main place of delivery or main place of performance: Bangladesh
8. Reference attributed by awarding authority: Not provided.
9. Estimated value of requirement: Not provided.
10. Opportunity closing date 16.10.2023.
11. Address to which they must be sent: To register your interest in the above opportunity please visit:
12. Other information: TKR-2023911-EX-1627843