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18 Oct 17. Air Traffic Control Tower Replacement – Montserrat
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Works required for the replacement of an Air Traffic Control Tower – Montserrat
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18 Oct 17. BAE Systems takes below-deck role on UK’s Type 31 frigate. BAE Systems will not lead a consortium bidding to build Britain’s newest frigate, the first time in three decades its shipyards have taken a back-seat role on a new warship. The UK’s biggest defence company has instead struck an alliance with Birkenhead-based Cammell Laird to bid for the £1.25bn contract to build five Type 31e warships. It is expected to compete against a consortium led by Babcock International, which is in discussions with naval designer BMT. Essential stories related to this article UK defence industry Critics see hole in Royal Navy’s new shipbuilding strategy Drones Royal Navy imagines a sea change in maritime warfare UK defence spending Royal Navy’s new £3bn aircraft carrier sets sail for first time Cammell Laird, which is building the £150m RRS Sir David Attenborough arctic survey vessel, will be the prime contractor, with BAE Systems providing warship design, engineering capability, and combat systems expertise as a subcontractor. The vessel proposed by Cammell Laird would be based on an existing BAE warship design named the Leander, a reference to one of the UK’s most successful and long-lasting classes of naval vessel. The last time BAE shipyards — some formerly owned by Vosper Thornycroft — did not take the lead on a warship contract dates back to the Type 22 commissioned in the 1980s, said Francis Tusa, editor of Defence Analysis. While the UK’s new aircraft carriers were led by an alliance that included Babcock and Thales, BAE was the lead partner within the alliance on the £6bn programme. The structure chosen by BAE and Cammell Laird would give their bid a better chance of success in a competition that appeared to be designed to break BAE’s hold on naval shipbuilding, said Mr Tusa. Many officials inside the Ministry of Defence, the Treasury and Royal Navy have long resented the obligation, set a decade ago, to maintain skills and shipbuilding capacity at BAE’s shipyards on the Clyde regardless of naval needs. FT Brexit Briefing Email Follow the big issues on the separation of the UK from the EU. DAILY One-Click Sign Up “Were they to have bid as BAE Systems, they wouldn’t win,” he said. “That is absolutely obvious. The fact is that the Type 31 is slanted probably to exclude any bid that includes BAE.” MOD officials have rejected such suggestions saying the aim is to spread the high volume of current naval orders across shipyards for widest economic benefit, speed of delivery, and cost. BAE also said that after beginning work on the Type 26 anti-submarine frigate this year, its shipyards are running at full capacity through the 2030s. The Type 31e programme will be the test bed for a new approach to naval procurement. Earlier this year the government opted to put the 4,000-tonne general-purpose frigate out to competitive tender in a bid to reduce the costs of construction, A cap of £250m per warship has been set. The U-turn followed a report late last year by renowned industrialist and former Harland & Wolff chief executive, Sir John Parker, which proposed that the work on Type 31e should be shared out between several commercial and naval shipyards as a means to speed up construction and cut costs. BAE insiders said that the structure made sense given the workload at the company’s Clyde shipyards and the type of vessel that the Royal Navy indicated it wanted. The Type 31e was expected to be a much simpler vessel and so there were bene