Avon Protection has won the tender for the continued supply of the General Service Respirator (GSR) and associated service support for the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), the company announced on 9 May 2024.
The contract, which covers four years with five further 12-month option periods, is valued at up to GBP 38 million (EUR 44 million).
Avon has been supplying the UK MoD with GSR masks since 2018. The new contract award will therefore see the company continue to sustain the UK armed forces’ chemical/biological/radiological/nuclear (CBRN) protection capabilities.
“We are very proud to have won this competitive tender with the UK MoD and to continue supporting the UK’s objectives of providing the highest-quality, most reliable and trusted protection equipment for the UK’s service men and women,” Jos Sclater, Avon Protection CEO, was quoted as saying in a company press release. “As we have seen with the reported deployment of chemical agents in Ukraine and in other recent conflicts, the highest grade CBRN protection is critical to operational capability for warfighters in the evolving reality of near-peer, hybrid warfare.”
Sclater also noted the strategic importance of the GSR contract for the company.
“It demonstrates our continued technological leadership in CBRN respiratory protection and provides a strong foundation for our UK business over the medium and long term,” he said.
