Aircraft equipment. To provide 25 Glider Winches. The Winches shall be capable of meeting the following minimum specifications:

At least 6 winches must be delivered by 31.3.2014, if possible the delivery of a greater number in this timescale, and the remainder by no later than January 2015.

Twin-drum winch equipped, to use and fitted with synthetic cable with a drum capacity of at least 7 000 ft.

Operator protection cage with cab able to seat 2 people.

Control panel to have audio and visual warnings.

Warning beacon fitted to outside of winch.

Driver-operated emergency cable-cutting guillotines.

Weight including trailer of less than 3 500 Kg, to allow towing by an SUV-type vehicle.

Mounting on UK road-legal trailer.

Post-delivery support with UK based servicing and on-call maintenance for on-site repair within 24 hrs of call reciept.

Earthing stake and lead.

Diesel fuel - in line with MOD policy.

Delivered with technical documentation to UK Army Equipment Support Publications (AESP) standard.

Contractor must be ISO 9001:2001 certified.

Documentation to meet UK safety requirements including but not limited to: the Quality Plan, the Project Management Plan, a Risk Schedule, the reliability, Maintainability and Testability Plan, the Obsolescence Management Plan, the Safety Case, the Training and Training Syllabus (for Operator and Maintainer), Certificates of Conformity/Type Approval. The equipment is to be CE marked.