# Lebanese Armed Forces Border Security Support

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office](/buyers/foreign-commonwealth-and-development-office/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: ARK Group DMCC
- Award value: £4,999,924
- Tender value: £5,000,000
- Award date: 1 September 2026
- Published: 30 September 2026
- Contract start: 1 September 2026
- Contract end: 31 March 2027
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 9b7f326d-4f5b-47f3-8892-2085230713d7-916084
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-242540b7-1882-4363-a1f0-41d22104f7a7

## Description

This contract will deliver infrastructure, training, mentoring, logistics and vehicle sustainment, and strategic and operational support to the Lebanese Armed Forces \(LAF\), strengthening border security, enhancing state authority, and supporting stability and conflict mitigation across Lebanon in a complex and evolving security environment\. The requirement will primarily support LAF activities along the Lebanese-Syrian border, with flexibility to support authorised activity in Southern Lebanon, contributing to increased Lebanese state control, border security and stability through a more capable, sustainable and operationally effective LAF\. The value of the contract for the initial 7-month period is £2,999,924, with the option to scale-up and/or extend the contract for an additional 6 months at a maximum value of £2,000,000 at the sole discretion of the Authority, for a maximum total contract value of £4,999,924\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/9b7f326d-4f5b-47f3-8892-2085230713d7-916084)