Source of advertised WD/MOD tenders and Contracts agreed

[Mark Ellis]

Hi all,

The Gazette is the formal paper for advertising legal and national notices and warrants.

I've recently been browsing Australia's Commonwealth Gazette, on Trove, which has loads of military Tenders and Awarded contracts notifications.

I've been looking at the UK's Gazette, and whilst there's a few tenders advertised for the Royal Navy and Royal Marines, there's absolutely no items for the War Department / MOD.

So I wonder if anybody knows where the WD used to post such notices?

Many thanks for any help.

[fv1609]

Mark prior to October 1959 you need to cast your net towards the Ministry of Supply for such contracts, although I have no idea where else they would be published.

[Mark Ellis]

36 minutes ago, fv1609 said:

Mark prior to October 1959 you need to cast your net towards the Ministry of Supply for such contracts, although I have no idea where else they would be published.

Or the Commissary-General's office, Clive. Just a shame that they didn't list the actual items 

[fv1609]

Yes the further back you go the more complicated it gets. There might be something in the National Archives WO395 files that includes War Office: Directorate of Army Contracts and predecessors: Annual Reports 1878-1938

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14599

[Mark Ellis]

1 hour ago, fv1609 said:

Yes the further back you go the more complicated it gets. There might be something in the National Archives WO395 files that includes War Office: Directorate of Army Contracts and predecessors: Annual Reports 1878-1938

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14599

Problem with National Archive is their indexing - makes my head hurt just trying to work out which subsection of which file type. An obvious index would help