The Ministry of Defence has awarded an £800,000 contract to supply a portable air raid warning system for RAF Akrotiri and the neighbouring Akrotiri Village in Cyprus, following an open competition that drew bids from two SMEs.
The Ministry of Defence has awarded an £800,000 contract for a rapid deployable air raid warning system to protect RAF Akrotiri and the adjoining Akrotiri Village in Cyprus, according to a contract award notice published on the government’s Find a Tender service on 13 August. The five-year contract has been won by Acoustic Technologies Inc, trading as ATI Systems, a small or medium-sized enterprise based in Boston, United States.
The requirement was issued by British Forces Cyprus from its headquarters at Episkopi Station. It called for sirens able to cover both the RAF station and the adjoining village with a community warning capability, producing distinct alert tones and voice announcements. Critically, the system needed to operate independently of fixed infrastructure, so it can be rapidly deployed rather than relying on permanent installation.
The contract was let under the open procedure, with two tenders received, both from small or medium-sized enterprises, of which one was successful. The winning bid covers a term of five years and one day, running from 26 October 2026 to 26 October 2031, and is listed under CPV codes covering loudspeakers, microphones and speaker equipment.
The award adds to a steady flow of force-protection and community-safety procurements across the UK’s overseas defence estate, where sovereign base areas such as Akrotiri require standalone systems that do not depend on host-nation infrastructure or utilities to function.
For the UK Defence Supply Chain
This award is a reminder that the MOD’s overseas estate, from Cyprus to Gibraltar and the Falklands, has a recurring need for portable, self-contained protection and warning systems that do not depend on local infrastructure. Opportunities are likely to keep arising for suppliers working in acoustic and loudspeaker engineering, mass-notification and public-address systems, and ruggedised, rapidly deployable equipment more broadly. To compete, suppliers typically need to evidence a track record delivering to defence or civil-resilience standards, environmental and reliability testing suited to the deployment conditions, and the ability to bid through Find a Tender’s open procedure.
