Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-01-09
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, C&C, Other
Country: UK
Region: Outer London - West and North West
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 35720000: Intelligence and surveillance systems
Estimated value: 7401000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-02-08
Award criteria: Technical, Commercial

Technical requirements: Technical
Commercial
Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance. Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance.
Joint Forces Intelligence Group (JFIG) has a global requirement for Commercial Imagery (CI) for intelligence purposes and the creation of geospatial products to support Defence planning, training and operations. The Defence Geographic Centre (DGC) and Defence Intelligence Fusion Centre (DIFC) are responsible for the purchase of and timely, cost efficient delivery of CI for use by Defence and Other Government Departments (OGD) to support this requirement.
JFIG uses CI in response to requests for support from Defence and OGDs. Such requests are often high-priority, high-profile and require a rapid response in order to react to time-critical events. CI is used to support production of foundation geospatial products including image maps, situational awareness products and raster datasets and intelligence products.
CI requirements often need to be met quickly and efficiently in order to react to time-critical events. A response time of 24 hours is necessary to service urgent requirements and is consequently seen as a critical element of contract delivery.
The Contractor will act as a broker between JFIG and CI vendors and contractor expertise will provide access to and knowledge of all vendors. The Contractor will staff all requirements and will provide unbiased recommendations based upon other experiences with vendors.
e. provide expert investigation and assessment of the existing medium and/or high resolution CI with recommendations on the suitability for the Defence requirement;
h. provide Ground Control Points (GCP) if required and enhanced imagery products, namely orthorectified imagery (to remove all terrain distortions), pan-sharpened imagery and mosaicked imagery to supplement above requirements;
j. have a thorough understanding of licence issues and be able to negotiate suitable usage permissions on behalf of ICG;
The Contract will be for an initial period of 3 years starting on 1.7.2016. This will be followed by 2 1-year option periods.
The contract will involve aspects that require the Contractor site to be granted a Facility Security Clearance (FSC) by its National/Designated Security Authority. To tender for the contract Contractors must therefore have, or be willing to, be subjected to the FSC process. Contractors will then be bound not to release or reveal to any third parties any details of a request or order submitted by JFIG without our express permission.
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.