The Engineering Delivery Partner Agreement (EDP) is a 10-year long partnership between the MOD and the Aurora Engineering Partnership (QinetiQ, AtkinsRealis and BMT).
Fundamental to EDP is the wider group of companies – the Aurora Provider Network – who support the partners in delivering valued engineering outcomes to the MOD.
We are approaching the end of the current period of the closed Provider Network. With this comes an exciting opportunity to refresh and evolve the network to realign with the requirements of Aurora, the MOD end-customer, and the Provider Network, as well as refocus behind changing requirements for Defence.
As part of the refresh planning, based on 6 years of EDP delivery and feedback from the Provider Network, our focus has been to develop a refreshed network that represents the some of the following characteristics and benefits:
- Encourages and enables collaboration amongst the partners and amongst the Provider Network
- Promotes and enables SME inclusivity
- Enables Social Value delivery
- Enables strategic contracting and closer relationships amongst the partners and providers
- Enables greater pace, flexibility and agility
- Helping Defence transform through better exploitation of their data and adopting Digital Engineering principles, tools and techniques
We appreciate the resource demand that comes with the refresh exercise onto the new Provider Network. We are consciously trying to minimise the requirements of providers as part of the evaluation process, allowing for consideration of previous delivery as evidence where possible.
Please express your interest in joining the Provider Network via the following web form.
As a result of this expression of interest you will receive all communications related to the Provider Network Refresh and an invitation to our sourcing portal to initiate the qualification process, when that goes live in the second half of June.
Once the Refresh has gone live, the sourcing portal will remain open for 6 weeks to enable providers to submit their responses to the qualification questionnaire.