Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2019-10-25
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Air Support, Air Commodities Project Team (AC PT)
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 34700000: Aircraft and spacecraft
Estimated value: 4800000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Provision of new build, spares inclusive repair, and post design services for military aircraft high intensity strobe lighting.
The provision of new build items, spares inclusive repair and post design services for military aircraft high intensity strobe light equipment
The Secretary of State for Defence (the ‘Authority’) intends to enter into a contract with Goodrich Lighting Systems for the provision of new build items, spares inclusive repairs and post design support for military aircraft high intensity strobe light equipment, NSNs 6220-12-1875292, 6220-99-9874874, 6130-99-3711549 and 6130-12-1879698. This equipment is fitted to a variety of platforms including Typhoon, Hawk, Gazelle, Merlin and Chinook. The contract has an estimated value of 4 800 000 GBP and a duration of 5 years.
It is considered that this contract can be placed using the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice pursuant to Article 28(1)(e) of Directive 2009/81/EC (Regulation 16(1)(a)(ii) of the Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011). This is due to technical reasons which would make it extremely difficult, time consuming and costly for any other economic operator to undertake the work required within this proposed contract period. The need to obtain the necessary licences, tools, spares, test equipment and develop technical expertise to provide new build items, to undertake post design service (PDS) activities and to undertake spares inclusive repairs would not be viable without engaging with Goodrich Lighting Systems for a significant proportion of the work; or without a significant investment and time. This would impact the users' ability to safely operate the affected equipment in the proposed period of contracting, which could realistically result in lost capability and aircraft being grounded.
Any new equipment to replace that produced by Goodrich Lighting Systems, would have to be approved by a variety of TAAs which cannot be guaranteed to occur within the proposed period of contracting if at all. As a result, Goodrich Lighting Systems is the only company able to fulfil the requirement that is being pursued by the Authority.
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-20191022-DCB-15499039


Winner: Goodrich Lighting Systems GMBH
Award value: 4800000