Despite working with the government institution in the run up to the tendering process for the Porton Down deal, Amey failed to gain preferred bidder status with the DSTL, formerly part of the Defence Evaluation Research Agency (DERA).
Tenders for the contract were sought on 20 April. The MoD planned to invite up to eight companies to tender for the contract, which has a two-year extension option.
DSTL will employ around 3,000 staff across the UK. DSTL staff will be based at 17 sites throughout the UK: Farnborough, Fort Halstead, Portsdown West, Porton Down, Malvern, Winfrith, Bincleaves, Glasgow, Rosyth, Chertsey, Bedford, Pershore, Defford, Pinehurst, Haslar, Alverstoke and Portsdown.
The loss of the deal is a setback to Amey, which inherited a number of DERA contracts as a result of its £145m acquisition of support service Comax in 1999.
Despite failing to gain preferred bidder status for the Porton Down contract, in a statement, Amey said it hopes to continue to do business with DSTL on other contracts.
Amey had been instrumental in helping the agency prepare to split into two divisions on 1 July.
It now has a commercially focused arm, Qinetiq, and a public body, (DSTL).
A quarter of DERA will become DSTL, while the remainder will become a wholly government owned plc as a precursor to eventual flotation, now likely to take place in early 2002.
* Amey has been named preferred bidder as part of the LUL JNP concession, Edinburgh Schools and Waltham Forest Local Education Authority outsourcing. But it was not named preferred bidder for the BBC, Met Office, Bradford Local Education Authority or the Dutch High Speed Rail Link contracts.
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