Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2017-06-30
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Ships, Commercially Supported Shipping (CSS) Team
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 39200000

Technical requirements: The Commercially Supported Shipping (CSS) Team manages the In-Service Support of a diverse range of platforms including the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) flotilla and the Royal Navy (RN) Hydrographic and Patrol (H&P) including Survey Ships. The majority of contracts which support these platforms will expire in 2018.
This requirement is for the supply, installation and maintenance of new and existing fixed and soft internal fixtures and fittings and all associated equipment specifically for the RFA and OSV platforms.
The successful bidder must support all requirements over the ten (10) year framework agreement duration.
The Commercially Supported Shipping (CSS) Team manages the In-Service Support of a diverse range of platforms including the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) flotilla and the Royal Navy (RN) Hydrographic and Patrol (H&P) including Survey Ships. The majority of contracts which support these platforms will expire in 2018.
This requirement is for the supply, installation and maintenance of new and existing fixed and soft internal fixtures and fittings and all associated equipment specifically for the RFA and OSV platforms.
The successful bidder must support all requirements over the ten (10) year framework agreement duration.
The Future In Service Support (FISS) team within Commercially Supported Shipping (CSS), Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S), part of the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), intends to place a 10 year single supplier framework agreement with Trimline for the provision of furnishings services to 13 X Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) Vessels and 1 X Royal Navy (RN) Vessel.
The estimated value of this framework agreement is between 30 000 000 GBP - 40 000 000 GBP, as per the original advertised competition.
There are exceptional circumstances which require the framework agreement to be for 10 years which relate to refit and certification periods of the vessels. No other supplier can meet the requirement; this has been tested through competition. We therefore intend to proceed to contract with Trimline Ltd using the negotiated procedure without prior publication pursuant to Article 28(1)(e) of Directive 2009/81/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (Regulation 16(1)(a)(ii) of the Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011) for technical reasons.
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-2017628-DCB-10527920.


Winner: Trimline Ltd.