European Movements Enabling Agreement (EMEA) for the Germany Enabling Office (GEO)
- Buyer
- Ministry of Defence
- Value
- £83,086,953
- Closes
- 5 November 2026
- Where
- Northwood, the East of England
- Type
- Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)
In plain English
The UK Ministry of Defence is looking for suppliers to provide movement and transportation services across Germany and wider Europe to support military operations. This includes buses, heavy lorries, dangerous goods transport, port services, vehicle cleaning, and escort vehicles for out-of-gauge loads.
What the buyer wants
• Arrange transportation of military personnel, equipment, and vehicles between the UK, Germany, exercise locations, airports and ports • Provide heavy and light goods transport, including specialist dangerous goods (ammunition and explosives classes 1-9) transport • Deliver port services at Emden and other Northern German ports (cranes, storage, stevedores, catering, accommodation) • Provide biological cleaning of vehicles to health standards • Supply escort vehicles with qualified drivers for out-of-gauge military convoys following local regulations
Lots
- Bus and Coach
- Road Transport (HET & LET)
- Road Transport - ADR
- Port Services, Emden
- Port Services Northern Germany excluding Emden
- Biological Cleaning
- Provision of Escort Vehicles (Begleitfahrzeuge)
Likely requirements
Our reading of the notice. Always check the tender documents.
This is a military logistics framework requiring multi-year supplier relationships, international operations across Germany and Europe, specialist certifications (ADR, port operations), large fleet capacity, and likely security vetting: most small local businesses will lack the scale, certifications, international presence, and compliance infrastructure needed.
How to bid
This is a framework: the buyer picks a set of suppliers now and awards work to them over several years. If you are not on it when it is awarded, you usually cannot win work from it until it is re-tendered, so this is the window to bid.
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