Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2018-03-27
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Logistics Delivery Operating Centre, Supply Chain Transformation
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 42965100 | 60000000 | 60100000 | 60161000 | 60200000
Estimated value:  GBP

Technical requirements: The purpose of this PIN is to advise potential providers of a market engagement day being held for The Authority's requirement for the Supply Chain Transformation Expansion (SCTX) Programme. The aims of the SCTX programme are to Optimise the MOD's Warehousing and Distribution Network and to deliver an efficient and effective solution which ensures that inventory items demanded through the Defence Supply Chain are fulfilled, through the efficient management of MOD's warehouse facilities to ensure that inventory items are receipted, stored, picked, packed, issued and delivered where and when they are required by the end user. Additionally, The Authority may seek to integrate commodity procurement and through life management of current and future commodity contracts as part of the solution, and include some overseas locations in the scope of the Warehousing and Distribution Network.
The SCTX Programme is being run by a team from Defence Equipment and Support based in Abbey Wood, Bristol. The team is responsible for delivering the SCTX requirement with an aim of running a competition starting in summer 2018, the start date for the procurement activity in this notice provides an indicate date only. Further analysis is needed which will affect the value of the procurement, an indicative value for the resulting contracts is somewhere in the range of 500M GBP and 1.25BN GBP dependent on the options taken forward.
We are keen to seek the views of Industry, who may be interested in participating in the procurement process, in helping to shape the requirement and this process will begin with a market engagement day being held in Bristol, UK on the 18.4.2018. This will be the first of a number of engagement events, at which we are looking to share the scale and scope of the change programme, together with our desired outcomes.
Please express your interest in attending the market engagement day, using the contact point in this Notice by 17:00 BST on 11.4.2018. A formal invitation with further details of the event will be issued to you. Details required are:
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-2018323-DCB-12115690.