# Motorcycle Helmet Performance Testing - Phase 4

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [THE DEPARTMENT FOR TRANSPORT](/buyers/department-for-transport/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: INSPEC INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
- Award value: £2,806,667
- Tender value: £28,066
- Award date: 25 August 2019
- Published: 11 September 2019
- Contract start: 3 September 2019
- Contract end: 8 September 2020
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 76053ecd-f877-4ca1-b027-f4a0f91e48a5-313333
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-1f62d661-856b-4a40-8bff-841b9ac34353

## Description

The Department for Transport is looking to appoint a competent laboratory that will; 1\. Use high quality apparatus to subject a number of approved motorcycle helmets to a series of precise and accurate impact tests\. 2\. Supply the Department with a comprehensive technical file for each model of helmet that is tested\. 3\. Provide the Department with technical advice relating to any test procedures or results provided\. 4\. Provide a helmet pre-test storage facility that is a clean, safe, secure, and with a temperature controlled at 25 degrees \+/- 5 degrees Celsius 5\. Dispose of helmets that have been tested in a manner that minimises the impact on the environment and to ensure that there is no possibility of them entering into use\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/76053ecd-f877-4ca1-b027-f4a0f91e48a5-313333)