Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2018-07-24
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Combat Air, Fast Air Support Team (FAST)
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 50211000: Repair and maintenance services of aircraft
Estimated value: 300000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Provision of a fully revised Chipmunk Maintenance Programme (Master Maintenance Schedule —Topic 5A1) to ensure compliance with the Military Aviation Authority Regulations.
The contract covers the provision of a fully revised Chipmunk Maintenance Programme (Master Maintenance Schedule — Topic 5A1) to ensure compliance with the Military Aviation Authority Regulations. The MOD’s Chipmunk Maintenance Programme was last fully reviewed in 2005.
This notice is not a request for Expressions of Interest so please do not apply to be invited to tender. This notice advises that the Authority has decided to negotiate a contract with the named supplier on a Single Source basis and is published for reasons of transparency.
The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF) Support Team, which is part of UK Ministry of Defence (MOD), proposes to place a contract with De Havilland Support Limited (Company Registration Number 04049847) (“the Company”) for the provision of Post Design Service (PDS) support for the BBMF Chipmunk Aircraft.
The contract covers the provision of a fully revised Chipmunk Maintenance Programme (Master Maintenance Schedule — Topic 5A1) to ensure compliance with the Military Aviation Authority Regulations. The MOD’s Chipmunk Maintenance Programme was last fully reviewed in 2005. The contract has a value of 300k GBP (three hundred thousand pounds) and a duration of 2 (two) years.
It is considered that this contract can be placed using the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice pursuant to Article 32(2)(b)(ii) of Directive 2014/24/EU (Regulation 32 (2)(b)(ii) of the UK Public Contracts Regulations 2015). The contract may only be awarded to the Company due to technical reasons. The Company holds under a non-expiring data licencing agreement with BAE Systems (which took effect on 1.4.2012) the exclusivity of the Chipmunk aircraft data including: all drawings, supporting design and airworthiness documentation, aircraft manuals and customer support records. Furthermore, there have been no provisions made in previous contracts with the MOD to grant a licence to use the exclusive rights to the design data and no third parties have been granted a licence for use of the aircraft data. It is therefore not possible for the Authority to access and release the data and hold a competition for the provision of a new Master Maintenance Schedule. In addition, only the Company has the technical know-how to fulfill the requirement.
The Company holds a Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Type Responsibility Agreement for the Chipmunk. As such it exclusively provides PDS-type support for all UK-registered civil Chipmunks. In carrying out this task it has sight of and access to technical issue resolution and arisings data for the large civil fleet that no other Company has access to. This data is essential to the review and production of a new MOD Maintenance Programme.
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.
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Winner: DE Havilland Support Limited
Award value: 300000