Find credible UK industrial partners for your defence programme
Capital helps overseas defence companies meet UK Offset commitments, with an evidence-based search platform and more than 25 years of Offset experience. The platform opens to clients soon.
For overseas primes and their UK subsidiaries preparing bids and Offset plans
The challenge
The UK expects overseas suppliers to invest in its defence industry. Meeting that expectation means finding UK companies that can genuinely make your parts, develop your technology or support your programme, and finding them early.
A web search turns up distributors, sales offices and advertisers alongside real manufacturers. Reviewing their capabilities, financial health, compliance and certifications takes a significant investment of time.
What Capital offers
The UK Defence Localisation Platform
Upload a parts list and receive a reasoned shortlist of UK manufacturers, SMEs, universities and research centres for each line, with the evidence behind every match.
Your data stays yours
The platform is designed so that your parts lists and shortlists are visible only to your organisation, not to Capital. You contact UK companies directly, in your own name.
Experience you can call on
Separately from the platform, Capital offers advisory support drawn from Offset and Industrial Participation programmes in nearly 30 countries.
How the platform works
Six steps from a parts list to first contact. Your engineers stay in control at every one of them.
- Upload your parts list
Plain, unclassified descriptions. No drawings, part numbers or controlled data are needed.
- Choose your priorities
Put ready-now manufacturers first, or give more weight to the UK value a partnership creates.
- Exclude competitors
Remove competitor groups from your results. Anything excluded stays listed, so you can bring it back.
- Review the shortlist
Results for each line are grouped by readiness, each with a reason and links to the company's own published information.
- Check the companies you pick
Financial health, ownership and security information for the firms you shortlist.
- Make first contact in your own name
A sanitised first-stage capability enquiry for each company, with a tracker for replies.
Built for engineers, not marketing
Every match comes with a reason that is simple to understand, and a link to the company's own published information. Companies that only sell or distribute are kept out of the manufacturer results.
- Can make this nowEvidence that the company already makes this type of item in the UK.
- Could make this with supportRelated capability. A candidate for technology transfer, new capability or SME development.
- PartialThe company covers part of the requirement.
- No confirmed UK maker foundStated plainly, with any support options still shown. The platform gives you a well-evidenced starting point; your engineers confirm capability directly with each company.
Latest Offset alerts
A weekly round-up of new defence sales around the world above the Offset thresholds, and changes to the Offset rules.
Checked weekly. Last updated 26 October 2026.
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Poland
Kongsberg wins about NOK 700m to supply weapon stations for Poland's K2 tanks
Kongsberg has signed a contract worth about NOK 700 million with Hyundai Rotem to supply Protector RS4 remote weapon stations for the K2 tanks, recovery vehicles and engineering vehicles ordered by Poland, with a support package. The first systems are due to ship in spring 2027.
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Morocco
Morocco in advanced talks to buy the David's Sling air defence system
Morocco's defence ministry is reported to be at a very advanced stage of negotiations with Rafael and Raytheon for the David's Sling system, including Stunner interceptors, radars, launchers, training and maintenance. No contract value has been published; Rabat is reported to be seeking industrial returns.
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Netherlands
US approves a possible US$294m sale of aircraft self-protection systems to the Netherlands
The US State Department has approved a possible sale to the Netherlands of 16 CIRCM infrared countermeasure systems and 38 radar warning receivers, with support, estimated at US$294 million. Northrop Grumman is the principal contractor.
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Norway
Norway sets out its plan to buy up to 20 standardised vessels with the UK and Lithuania
Norway's Defence Materiel Agency has told industry how it will buy up to 20 standardised vessels: up to 14 naval vessels for Norway, the UK and Lithuania, and up to 6 Coast Guard vessels, under two parallel contracts that one bidder cannot both win. Prequalification comes next, with award of the large-vessel contract targeted for 2027 and first delivery in 2030.
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Denmark
Denmark orders more Naval Strike Missiles from Kongsberg for NOK 400m
Denmark has ordered a further batch of Kongsberg's Naval Strike Missiles, worth NOK 400 million (about US$42 million), in a government-to-government deal through Norway's Defence Materiel Agency. The number of missiles has not been disclosed.
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Romania
Romania signs a €920m contract for four naval ships funded by EU SAFE loans
Romania's government has signed a €920 million contract for two 96-metre offshore patrol vessels and two diving support vessels, to be built at the Mangalia shipyard bought by a Rheinmetall and MSC consortium, with the programme due to finish by 2030. Because it is funded through the EU's SAFE loans, the purchase is exempt from Romania's Offset rules.
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Greece Rules
Greek bill would set a minimum 25% national participation in armament programmes
A Greek defence bill due to go to cabinet and then parliament would set a minimum 25% share for Greek industry in armament programmes. The text has not yet been published, so what will count towards the share is not yet known.
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Australia
Australia seeks industry offers for a medium-range ground-based air defence system
Australia's Department of Defence has issued an industry solicitation for Land 6504, a medium-range ground-based air defence system for the Army, with vendor selection due by the end of 2027. Australia has no Offset policy; its Australian Industry Capability rules apply instead.
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Saudi Arabia Rules
Saudi Arabia's new Government Procurement Law takes effect on 2 January 2027
Saudi Arabia's new Government Procurement Law, published on 4 September 2026, takes effect on 2 January 2027. It gives the Local Content and Government Procurement Authority a role in planning and bid evaluation, with local content preference rules still to be issued.
The Council and training
Two ways Capital brings people together around Offset, alongside the platform.
UK National Offset Council (UK-NOC)
An informal quarterly gathering in London for people with an interest in UK Offset: Ministry of Defence officials, UK companies and overseas suppliers. Organised and hosted by Capital. The first meeting takes place in Q4 2026.
Offset practitioner course
A practitioner's masterclass for people new to Offset and Industrial Participation: eight modules, a UK elective and a live negotiation simulation, online over nine weeks or in-house over three days.
Preparing a UK bid or an Offset plan?
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