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Company description
BABCOCK VEHICLE ENGINEERING LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 5 May 1947; registered for 79 years; registered office reported in LONDON. Its primary declared activity is 29100 · Manufacture of motor vehicles, with 1 additional SIC activity reported.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 12 procurement records. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- BABCOCK VEHICLE ENGINEERING LIMITED
- Company number
- 00434529
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 5 total · 0 outstanding · 5 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 March 2025Next accounts due
31 December 2026Last statement made up to
10 February 2026Next statement due
24 February 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- -300.0%
- Mean bonus gap
- -95.0%
- Women receiving bonus
- 20.0%
- Men receiving bonus
- 73.7%
- Women in top quartile
- 9.4%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 0.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 0.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 13.8%
Earlier reporting years (7)
- 250 to 49919.8% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49921.8% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49926.0% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49923.4% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49921.6% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49918.4% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49925.8% median hourly gap
Positive gaps mean men were paid more; negative gaps mean women were paid more. These figures are employer-reported and describe the workforce distribution, not equal pay for the same job. The company link uses the exact Companies House number supplied by the service.
04 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 April 2025 – 30 September 2025
- Filed
- 30 October 2025
- Shortest standard term
- 30 days
- Longest standard term
- 60 days
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 1 April 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £9,139,224
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £2,413,999
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £1,333,269
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £5,971,888
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 16.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 60 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Standard payment terms are generally in the range of 30 to 60 days.
Small and micro suppliers are on 30-day terms. - Other payment-term information
Small supplier (49 or less employees) 0% paid within 30 days
- Dispute resolution process
Relationships with our suppliers are important to us and we rely on our suppliers to deliver high quality goods and services to meet the needs of our customers. Our purchase contracts specify dispute escalation processes. We commit to treating suppliers fairly and intend to resolve any identified disputes as quickly as possible. Point of contact details are provided on purchase orders.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 31.0 average days to pay31.0% outside terms
- 30.0 average days to pay31.0% outside terms
- 31.0 average days to pay35.0% outside terms
- 32.0 average days to pay34.0% outside terms
- 40.0 average days to pay36.0% outside terms
- 33.0 average days to pay33.0% outside terms
- 29.0 average days to pay22.0% outside terms
- 43.0 average days to pay57.0% outside terms
- 46.0 average days to pay59.0% outside terms
- 42.0 average days to pay48.0% outside terms
- 43.0 average days to pay70.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
05 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- BABCOCK VEHICLE ENGINEERING LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- BABCOCK INTERNATIONAL GROUP PLC
- Statement period
- 1 April 2025 – 31 March 2026
- Approved
- 27 May 2026
- Sectors
- Defence and aerospace
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Covered in the statement
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Covered in the statement
Goals and KPIs
Covered in the statement
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- Over £500 million
- Years producing statements
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 10 August 2026
A registry entry records what the organisation declared in its statement. It is not an independent audit. Group statements can cover several companies; BritDB preserves each exact source-supplied company-number link and excludes approver names and email addresses.
06 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Babcock Vehicle Engineering Limited
Registration Z5659603
- Registered from
- 6 September 2001
- Current end date
- 5 September 2027
This is a candidate association, not an official Companies House link. The ICO file supplies no company number. The organisation name and postcode uniquely matched this company in the current snapshot. BritDB excludes all DPO contact fields and does not publish unmatched personal entries.
07 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
Provision of Armoured Vehicles and Associated Services
FCDO Services · ocds-b5fd17-4e271df5-ca3b-4faf-b96d-a25692a95b09
- Supplier named in award
- Babcock Vehicle Engineering Ltd
- Award value
- £2,181,133
- Contract period
- 20 December 2023 – 18 March 2024
- Published
- 2 January 2024
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 34100000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-4e271df5-ca3b-4faf-b96d-a25692a95b09-2024-01-02T17:03:59Z
Provision of Armoured Vehicles and Associated Services
FCDO Services · ocds-b5fd17-02626d54-fd3b-4ba1-94aa-5a2d8d279574
- Supplier named in award
- Babcock Vehicle Engineering Ltd
- Award value
- £2,993,432.80
- Contract period
- 12 November 2023 – 29 February 2024
- Published
- 2 January 2024
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 34100000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-02626d54-fd3b-4ba1-94aa-5a2d8d279574-2024-01-02T16:21:32Z
Provision of Armoured Vehicles and Associated Services
FCDO Services · ocds-b5fd17-e774a6d7-6cc6-42d2-9302-6ea7276284cc
- Supplier named in award
- Babcock Vehicle Engineering Ltd
- Award value
- £1,344,327
- Contract period
- 9 November 2023 – 29 February 2024
- Published
- 24 November 2023
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 34100000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-e774a6d7-6cc6-42d2-9302-6ea7276284cc-2023-11-24T13:17:10Z
AWARDED- Project Lurcher
MINISTRY OF DEFENCE · ocds-b5fd17-3db303aa-5986-4b79-a902-1288aea5aa43
- Supplier named in award
- BABCOCK VEHICLE ENGINEERING LIMITED
- Award value
- £535,169.78
- Contract period
- 3 March 2023 – 31 March 2024
- Published
- 9 March 2023
- Procedure
- Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system
- Main CPV
- 34114000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-3db303aa-5986-4b79-a902-1288aea5aa43-2023-03-09T11:43:20Z
Provision of Vehicle Conversion and Decommissioning Services
Metropolitan Police Service · ocds-b5fd17-548aa4d9-39d6-4df6-aa86-75f13e5d34ce
- Supplier named in award
- BABCOCK VEHICLE ENGINEERING LIMITED
- Award value
- £75,900,000
- Contract period
- 1 April 2022 – 31 March 2027
- Published
- 30 December 2021
- Procedure
- Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system
- Main CPV
- 34114100
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-548aa4d9-39d6-4df6-aa86-75f13e5d34ce-2021-12-30T13:14:35Z
Provision of Trauma Management Vehicles
Army HQ (Andover) : Ministry of Defence · ocds-b5fd17-86374694-e173-4804-a018-ea37743e04f2
- Supplier named in award
- Babcock Vehicle Engineering Limited
- Award value
- £204,780.08
- Contract period
- 21 February 2020 – 20 August 2020
- Published
- 12 March 2020
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 34114120
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-86374694-e173-4804-a018-ea37743e04f2-2020-03-12T14:07:44Z
Provision of Customs and Immigration Vehicles (4x4)
British Forces Cyprus (Part of JFC) : Ministry of Defence · ocds-b5fd17-576d6441-3bfa-4348-98c1-88840659a1ef
- Supplier named in award
- Babcock Vehicle Engineering Limited
- Award value
- £305,091
- Contract period
- 3 February 2020 – 30 June 2020
- Published
- 19 March 2020
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 34113000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-576d6441-3bfa-4348-98c1-88840659a1ef-2020-03-19T14:23:34Z
REDACTED Police Public Order Vehicles
British Forces Cyprus (Part of JFC) : Ministry of Defence · ocds-b5fd17-d61a8b2f-1c33-4588-b752-58a1b181ba12
- Supplier named in award
- Babcock Vehicle Engineering Limited
- Award value
- £1,759,030.25
- Contract period
- 17 December 2019 – 31 May 2020
- Published
- 26 March 2020
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 35410000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-d61a8b2f-1c33-4588-b752-58a1b181ba12-2020-03-26T11:43:03Z
itt_2264 - CPG/1839/2017 - Armoured Vehicles Framework - DSPCR
Foreign & Commonwealth Office · ocds-b5fd17-573efe46-8218-44e6-876a-d7fec22cca87
- Supplier named in award
- Babcock Vehicle Engineering
- Award value
- £0
- Contract period
- 8 November 2018 – 10 November 2023
- Published
- 12 November 2018
- Procedure
- Restricted procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 34000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-573efe46-8218-44e6-876a-d7fec22cca87-2018-11-12T12:09:22Z
Fleet Conversions Radios
H M Revenue & Customs · ocds-b5fd17-67c5eae0-8718-4b36-b38c-e4a3379d85b2
- Supplier named in award
- BABCOCK VEHICLE ENGINEERING LIMITED
- Award value
- £90,000
- Contract period
- 1 April 2017 – 31 January 2019
- Published
- 24 January 2018
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 50117000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-67c5eae0-8718-4b36-b38c-e4a3379d85b2-2018-01-24T16:53:32Z
The supplier link is exact, but the award remains buyer-published procurement data. BritDB requires the GB-COH identifier supplied in the Contracts Finder OCDS release and does not infer suppliers from similar names.
08 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Babcock Critical Services Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- Scotland
- Legal authority
- United Kingdom (Scotland)
- Legal form
- Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- Sc046710
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
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09 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
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10 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
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11 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
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12 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
Manufacture of Civilian Armoured Vehicles
FCDO Services · updated 17 November 2025
- Tender value
- £200,000,000
- Awards
- 1
BLC0157 Vehicle Conversions
BLUELIGHT COMMERCIAL LIMITED · updated 16 September 2025
- Tender value
- £200,000,000
- Awards
- 1
These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
13 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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14 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
Other specialised construction activities n.e.c.
15 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
2 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
16 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Company name
Previous name: S.MACNEILLIE & SON LIMITED
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
17 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Annual employer reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
Historic awards linked by exact source-supplied GB-COH company identifier.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
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