Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2018-05-19
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Land Equipment, Operational Infrastructure Programme (OIP)
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
CPV classification: 34144300: Vehicles for refuse collection | 44212100

Technical requirements: The Authority’s Operational Infrastructure (OI) has identified a possible future requirement to sustain/enhance the capabilities currently provided by Medium Girder Bridge / Medium Girder Over Bridge / Air Portable Ferry Bridge to support UK forces out to 2037.
Any interested party can provide an existing solution (COTS) to meet the capability or sustain/enhance the existing bridges.
The three capabilities will share common components to allow maximum flexibility between the various bridge configurations as follows:
A lightweight, rapidly deployable hand built dry support Bridge of modular construction to support simple and complex intervention environments for light and medium weight forces. A bridge capable of crossing a gap up to 29 metres in a single span.
A single set of the equipment must meet the capability threshold for the load capacity of MLC 50(T)(W) and an capability objective for the load capacity of MLC 85(T) 130(W).
Rapidly deployable hand built dry support Over Bridge of modular construction, capable of crossing a gap of up to 9 metres. It is designed to be placed over damaged bridges or culverts.
A single set of the equipment must meet the capability threshold for the load capacity of MLC 50(T)(W) and an capability objective for the load capacity of MLC 85(T) 130(W).
A deployable hand built, modular bridge to enable light forces to cross a variety of wet gaps. The Ferry Bridge system will be a self-propelled roll on roll off (RORO) ferry capable of being deployed and operated by both light and fly forward forces.
A single set of the equipment must meet the capability threshold for the load capacity of MLC 50(T)(W) and an capability objective for the load capacity of MLC 85(T) 130(W).
At this stage, the purpose of this notice is to contribute to ongoing market analysis in support of this proposed requirement. Any interested party wishing to register a proposed solution that meets the capability requirements listed above should provide their response to the contact details listed above by 31.7.2018.
Any response to this notice is not a formal Expression of Interest (EOI) and the Authority shall notify the market formally at a later date when the requirement has been fully matured.
The Authority reserves the right to amend any condition related to security of information to reflect any changes in national law or government policy. If any contract documents are accompanied by instructions on safeguarding classified information (e.g. a Security Aspects Letter), the Authority reserves the right to amend the terms of these instructions to reflect any changes in national law or government policy, whether in respect of the applicable protective marking scheme, specific protective markings given, the aspects to which any protective marking applies, or otherwise. The link below to the Gov.uk website provides information on the Government Security Classification.
Advertising Regime OJEU:- This contract opportunity is published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU),the MoD Defence Contracts Bulletin and www.contracts.mod.uk GO Reference: GO-2018514-DCB-12417757.