Fleet Solid Support Ships: Procurement

(asked on 5th April 2019) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether bidders participating in the procurement process for fleet support ships are required to provide (a) carrier strike group 22, (b) carrier strike and (c) carrier-enabled power projection capabilities; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Stuart Andrew Portrait
Stuart Andrew
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
This question was answered on 10th April 2019

The Fleet Solid Support ships will not directly provide a carrier strike or carrier-enabled power projection capability but will facilitate these through the delivery of food, stores and ordnance to the Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers. Bidders for the main design and build contract are not required to provide any specific carrier strike capability.

All sensitive equipment that would be used in the support of carrier strike operations will be subject to a separate UK-only competition after main contract award.

The term Carrier Strike Group 22 is not recognised.

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