£12.5m MoD boost for Dukinfield engineering group

Up to £12.5m of Ministry of Defence (MoD) work has been won by a Dukinfield engineering group.

AIM-listed TP Group announced this morning that it has secured the work under the framework for Combined Oxygen Generating Systems (Cogs), which was first announced on Aprl 11 last year.

The contract is for a number of Cogs units and additional items for in-service Royal Navy submarines.

With this annoucement, all options under this framework have now been taken up, the company said.

The systems will be manufactured by TPG Engineering and are expected to be fully delivered by 2026.

TP Group chief executive Phil Cartmell said: “We are delighted to confirm the next step on this long-term agreement which demonstrates the strength of our support to the MoD’s submarine programmes and provides further visibility of revenues in the Engineering business unit.”

On Monday this week the group announced it had won defence contracts worth up to £2.6m.

TP Group was awarded two contracts by the MoD through its Enterprise Technical Alliance initiative.

These are the first contracts of scale to be awarded to the group under the ETA initiative.

The ETA brings together a group of small firms (SMEs) to deliver agile, responsive and independent contracting services, as well as to work collaboratively to deliver value for money solutions across small and large scale support requirements.

The first contract will see TP Group provide specialist support to Joint Forces Command on the MoD’s ERUGATE project, with the contract valued at £1m over 35 months.

In addition, the group will also support the SAFEGUARDING programme, in a contract valued at £800,000 over two years, with additional options for the project to reach up to £1.6m over the contract period.

TP Group is based in Farnborough and has offices in Dukinfield, Bristol, Wincanton and Portsmouth.