Following on from the Market Interest Day on 15th January 2026, the LMV Project Team has issued an initial RFI to gather further insights from Industry.
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Preliminary Market Engagement Notice, Abbey Wood, Bristol 17 February 2026: [extracts]
A[n] update has been made within the engagement process description regarding further Market Engagement occuring [sic] as part of the LMV project.
Description
This is a calling notice for the Land Mobility Programme Team (LMP) team Early Market Engagement (EME) for the Light Mobility Vehicle Project (LMV). The purpose of this engagement is to engage with industry about the current requirement, explore key challenges and opportunities, and gain a clearer understanding of current market capabilities and offerings which may be relevant to how we deliver this requirement in the future. LMV is expected to deliver multiple options including delivery of a wheeled utility platform to modernise capability in roles currently filled by Land Rover and Pinzgauer with a Common Based Platform delivering warfighting roles across the Joint Force.
Total value (estimated) ¤ £750,000,000 excluding VAT
Contract dates (estimated) ¤ 30 April 2027 to 30 April 2033
Engagement deadline ¤ 3 March 2026
UPDATE 17/02/2026
Following on from the Market Interest Day on 15th January 2026, the LMV Project Team has issued an initial Request for Information (RFI) to gather further insights from Industry. We welcome input from all industry partners either individually or as part of a group. A return to all or part of this RFI is requested before 17:00 on Tuesday 3rd March 2026.
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Editor’s Comment: As the UK Defence Procurement sloth lumbers on one has to wonder if the organisation’s primary goal is:
- replacing badly needed vehicles which have long been out of production and for which many spares are difficult or impossible to source at sensible prices, or
- amassing more mountains of paperwork to make sourcing replacements even more difficult than it need be while keeping the jobs of seat-polishers secure for even longer
Even the Spanish MoD, who it is said sometimes use the word mañana where others might use urgent, have not only replaced their 1990s vintage light mobility vehicle fleets but they have also managed to seek, trial and procure replacements for the batch of vehicles that replaced many of these! The way UK MoD is going it looks like the, predominantly 1997/8 vintage, Land Rover Defender utility vehicle fleet may end up seeing 35 years of service rather than the planned 15 years originally forecast.
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Some further reading on the UK Forces Truck Utility Medium or TUM replacement saga:-
- UK Military Medium Utility Vehicle Doldrums ~ 27Aug2022
- UK GSUP ~ General Support Utility Platform Programme ~ 08Sep2022
- UK Light Tactical Mobility Platform (M) Contract Notice ~ 31Aug2023
- UK Land Mobility Programme – Prior Information Notice ~ 16Sep2024
- Light Mobility Vehicle Contenders at DVD 2024 ~ 27Sep2024
- UK Light Mobility Vehicle – Request for Information ~ 11Jan2025
- UK Light Mobility Vehicle ~ Pipeline Notice ~ 10Jun2025
- UK LMV Contenders Displayed at DSEI UK 2025 ~ 15Sep2025
- UK LMV Market Interest Day Announced ~ 08Dec2025
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