Making You Ready For Defence.

Access Defence's work involves creating a close relationship with you - our customer - to understand your needs, introducing you to the processes of the MOD and introducing you to your prospective defence customers. 

This will be followed by on-going relationship management, programme assistance and advice to ensure you have the best possible chance of entry into the UK MOD’s supply chain.  Throughout the various stages of this process Access Defence will be mindful of your business future and want to ensure that you have an evolving position in the defence market.  This means that we will continue to work with you, guiding your product and service development in a manner that aims to ensure acceptance by the MOD capability and acquisition process within your financial requirements.

Assistance can be provided in areas that include the following:

Identification of your offering's value and the best route to market.

Identifying the appropriate MOD customer or prime supplier who would benefit from your offering.

Advice on UK MOD commercial management and contracting methods to ensure that you know what the defence market requires.

Tendering and contract award mechanisms, including helping you prepare your bid, understanding your competition and providing open and honest review of your proposal.

Helping you with your risk assessment and analysis.

Engineering, software and systems engineering practices and processes as they apply to UK MOD contracts.

Certification advice including such things as ISO 9000 accreditation and MOD Form 100 preparation. 

Environmental and interoperability testing advice.

Security accreditation processes -  required for any facility to process sensitive government information.

Assistance with International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) where interaction with US suppliers is required.

Where appropriate, assistance with MOD Form 680 (trade controls), export licensing requirements and advice and assistance in obtaining clearances.