{"id":848179,"date":"2025-05-14T09:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/dio-signals-90m-raf-marham-works-procurement\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T09:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:12:11","slug":"dio-signals-90m-raf-marham-works-procurement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/dio-signals-90m-raf-marham-works-procurement\/","title":{"rendered":"DIO signals \u00a390m RAF Marham works procurement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper_sleeve\">\n<p><img width=\"620\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ca.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/12\/Wates_F-35B_-Defence-Infrastructure-Organisation_fighter-jet_MoD_Ministry-of-Defence-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"Wates_F-35B_ Defence Infrastructure Organisation_fighter jet_MoD_Ministry of Defence\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" ><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) in the Ministry of Defence has set out plans for a construction contract to support the second frontline F-35B Lightning fighter squadron at RAF Marham in Norfolk.<\/p>\n<p>A procurement pipeline notice published today (13 May) confirms that the DIO is preparing to launch a tender for a works valued at \u00a390m excluding VAT.<\/p>\n<p>RAF Marham is home to the RAF&#8217;s existing F-35B fleet and a hub for maintenance of the UK&#8217;s Lightning Force.<\/p>\n<p>The base hosts two operational F-35B squadrons:\u00a0 617 (Dambusters) Squadron was the first to be based there, followed by 809 Naval Air Squadron.<\/p>\n<p>The new pipeline notice covers airfield infrastructure to support the latter squadron\u2019s F-35B Lightning IIs.<\/p>\n<p>Procurement is expected to begin with a tender notice on 1 September.<\/p>\n<p>The contract will run for just over three years, starting on 2 February 2026 with completion by 30 March 2029.<\/p>\n<p>Various firms built previous F-35B infrastructure at RAF Marham under different contracts. These included an \u00a382.5m deal for Balfour Beatty in 2016 to build engineering and training facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Galliford Try and Lagan Construction have also built hangars and vertical landing pads at the base.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1685\" data-end=\"1735\"><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.find-tender.service.gov.uk\/Notice\/020933-2025?origin=SearchResults&#038;p=1\">Gov.uk Find a Tender<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This story was written with AI assistance from Harmsworth<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/tech\/why-construction-news-is-using-ai-to-assist-with-our-writing-31-03-2025\/\">Who is Harmsworth?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/civils\/dio-signals-90m-raf-marham-works-procurement-13-05-2025\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Ben Vogel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) in the Ministry of Defence has set out plans for a construction contract to support the second frontline F-35B Lightning fighter squadron at RAF Marham in Norfolk. A procurement pipeline notice published today (13 May) confirms that the DIO is preparing to launch a tender for a works valued at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":848180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143905,25256],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-848179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-marham","8":"category-signals"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}