Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-08-24
Buyer: Babcock DSG Limited
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 50630000
Estimated value: 500000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-09-22
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Repair and maintenance services of military vehicles. Repair and maintenance services of military vehicles. Babcock DSG Limited — acting on behalf of the UK Ministry of Defence (‘the Authority’) — has a potential requirement to place a 5-Year Framework Agreement with 2 x 1-Year Options for the Repair Support to Environmental Conditioning System (ECS) Assemblies.
The Authority reserves the right to add items of a similar nature to the contract during its lifetime.
Babcock DSG Limited — acting on behalf of the UK Ministry of Defence (‘the Authority’) — has a potential requirement to place a 5-year Framework Agreement with 2 x 1-Year Options for Repair Support to Environmental Conditioning System (ECS) Assemblies within the Challenger 2 (CR2), Titan and Trojan (T2), and Repair (FV512) and Recovery (FV513) variant of the Warrior (WR) Armoured Vehicles.
The ECS systems of these platforms provides cooled, heated or unconditioned air to each crew member to assist in sustaining a habitable environment when the vehicle is operating in a variety of conditions.
Any remanufacture of the assembly and its ancillaries shall be to the latest MoD approved OEM specifications and modification state, using approved procedures in accordance with the current service/workshop manual for the item. Completed assemblies, including ancillaries, shall be tested to the OEM specification. The performance and quality standard of the assembly shall meet or exceed the requirement of the OEM specification.
QA standards or equivalent: The Contractor shall hold and maintain a certification to ISO 9001:2008, ISO 9001:2015 or equivalent quality accreditation to a correct scope relevant to this requirement.
The Contractor shall be responsible for the procurement of all replacement parts and they shall meet or exceed the OEM specification and shall be purchased from an approved supplier. Certificates of Conformity (COC) shall be obtained for all parts which have not been sourced from the OEM.
Expressions of Interest must be submitted via submitting a response to the Dynamic Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (DPQQ) linked to this Contract Notice. Only those expressions of interest that fully meet the above criteria and the requirement as stated in the DPQQ shall be considered for Invitation to Tender.
No business whatsoever is guaranteed under any resulting framework agreement or contract, indeed there is no guarantee that any framework agreement or contract will be put in place in relation to this Contract Notice. No compensation etc. will be paid if a tender or resulting framework agreement is withdrawn for any reason. Bidders should take part in this place only on the basis that they fully understand and accept this position.
Babcock DSG Limited — acting on behalf of the UK Ministry of Defence (‘the Authority’) — has a potential requirement to place a 5-Year Framework Agreement with the possibility to extend this duration further using 2 x 1-Year Options.
If a group of economic operators submits a bid, the group must nominate a lead organisation to deal with the Authority. The Authority shall require the group to form a legal entity before entering into the contract.
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 a Security Aspects Letter, the Authority reserves the right to amend the terms of the Security Aspects Letter 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 Authority will apply all the offences listed in Article 39(1) of Directive 2009/81/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (implemented as Regulation 23(1) of the Defence and Security Public Contract Regulations (DSPCR) 2011 in the UK) and all of the professional misconducts listed at Article 39(2) of Directive 2009/81/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (see also Regulation 23(2) in the DSPCR 2011) to the decision of whether a Candidate is eligible to be invited to tender.
A full list of the Regulation 23(1) and 23(2) criteria are at http://www.contracts.mod.uk/delta/project/reasonsForExclusion.html#dspr
Candidates will be required to sign a declaration confirming whether they do or do not have any of the listed criteria as part of the pre-qualification process.