Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2016-02-06
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Combat Air, Fast Air Support Team (FAST)
Country: UK
Region: Lancashire
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 35610000: Military aircraft
Estimated value: 15000000 GBP
Award criteria: Lowest price
EU fund: ESF

Technical requirements: Military aircraft. Technical Support Services. Project Quest is the title given to the Tornado engineering and specialist technical sustainment programme, specifically the sustainment of engineering capability to enable operation of the Royal Air Force's Tornado GR4 force in a safe manner.
It is considered, for technical reasons, that this contract, Project Quest, should be placed with BAE Systems using the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice 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 Contract Regulations 2011). Project Quest is the title given to the United Kingdom's Tornado GR4 engineering and specialist technical sustainment solution, specifically the sustainment of engineering capability to enable operation of the Royal Air Force's Tornado GR4 force in a safe manner. This capability includes Design Organisation human resources who hold specific engineering and specialist technical skills and product domain knowledge, rigs, facilities, software, models and engineering data. BAE Systems is the UK Ministry of Defence's nominated Prime Contractor for its Tornado fleet. They provide aircraft safety and technical clearances as part of the Panavia consortium (i.e. The Design Authority for Tornado aircraft). Only BAE Systems have the necessary and required skills as detailed above to enable engineering support to be provided to the MoD's Tornado Engineering Authority.
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Winner: BAE Systems MA&I
Number of bids: 1