Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-02-20
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Land Equipment, Operational Support Vehicle Programme (OSVP)
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 34100000 | 50111000: Fleet management and maintenance services | 50111100 | 50111110
Estimated value:  EUR
Submission deadline: 2019-03-27
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Fleet management, repair and maintenance services. Vehicle-fleet management services. Vehicle-fleet-support services. Motor vehicles. Fleet management, repair and maintenance services. 350–450 leased vehicles, including servicing maintenance, repair, inspection, accident management and breakdown support to be operated across a number of countries within continental Europe.
350–450 leased vehicles and associated fleet management services. Contract term of 5–7 years, with 3 added individual optional years (1 + 1 + 1).
The Authority will apply all the offences listed in Article 39(1) of Directive 2009/81/EC [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 [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.
Candidates who have been convicted of any of the offences under Article 39(1) are ineligible and will not be selected to bid, unless there are overriding requirements in the general interest (including defence and security factors) for doing so.
Candidates who are guilty of any of the offences, circumstances or misconduct under Article 39(2) may be excluded from being selected to bid at the discretion of the Authority.
To maximise competition amongst organisations who can reasonably achieve the service requirements of 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.
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