Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2020-01-08
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Land Equipment, Land Concept and Assessment
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
CPV classification: 34200000 | 34223300 | 35400000: Military vehicles and associated parts | 50100000 | 73423000

Technical requirements: The Ministry of Defence has outlined a requirement for a replacement Heavy Equipment Transporter (HET). These will form an integral part of the MDL25 logistics vehicle programme. In due course MDL25 will provide the next generation of land materiel lift, bulk liquids and equipment transport deployable capability. The authority has been tasked with exploring the acquisition, support, and through-life service options for the HET capability.
As part of an options analysis, the authority is inviting industry to participate in a Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) survey in support of developing our acquisition strategy. Specifically, the authority seeks information from industry for the following reasons:
(ii) inform the acquisition strategy of the commercial off the shelf (COTS) or military off the shelf (MOTS) options;
Suppliers that are interested and wish to complete the PME Questionnaires are informed that they will be held on the Defence Share website: https://defenceshare.mod.uk/connect.ti/MDL25_PME/grouphome?done=GRPJustJoined
Point of contact for this PME is Gary Newman. Suppliers should upload completed responses to Defence Share no later than the closing date 10.00 6.3.2020.
The purpose of this PIN is to alert industry to the Pre-Market Engagement (PME) activity only and does not in any way commit the authority to launch any formal procurement procedure.
The authority is inviting industry to register its interest to participate in a Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) exercise in order to gauge market interest in fulfilling the requirement, assist in the development of acquisition options and support the development of procurement models. This will be a non-competitive, information gathering exercise, where interested parties are invited to respond to providing either part of, or the whole capability.
Industry should not expect to assign significant resource into the upcoming exercise and any responses should be based on solutions that are already in-service. All work completed in response to the PME is at industry’s own risk.
The PME exercise will not represent a commitment by the authority to launch any formal procurement procedure, nor does it indicate that the authority has decided on its procurement options for this requirement. Furthermore, any participation in the PME exercise does not guarantee that you will be invited to participate in any future tender exercise.
Should the authority run a competition for this requirement, then participants will be selected via the normal routes (e.g. Dynamic Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (DPQQ)). The PME exercise forms part of our engagement with industry relating to this requirement and you should note we are conducting similar exercises with other potential suppliers.
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-202016-DCB-15773603