Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2018-06-29
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, ISTAR, Joint Sensor and Engagement Networks Team (JSENS)
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 72250000: System and support services
Estimated value: 20000000 SEK
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Logistic and Integration support, and associated articles, in relation to the Giraffe-Agile Multi Beam (G-AMB) radars.
The Joint Sensors and Engagement Networks Team, part of the UK Ministry of Defence (the “Authority”), intends to enter into a contract (the “Contract”) with SAAB AB (publ) (the “Contractor”) to take effect on and from 1.1.2019 for a period of 5 years for the provision of logistic and integration support, and associated articles, in relation to the Giraffe-Agile Multi Beam (G-AMB) radars, which support the UK Ministry of Defence’s Land Environment Air Picture Provision and Ground Based Air Defence capabilities. The Contract has a value (ex VAT) of between 20 000 000 GBP (twenty million pounds sterling) and 100 000 000 GBP (one hundred million pounds sterling).
It is considered that the Contract can be entered into using the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice pursuant to Article 28(1)(e) of Directive 2009/81/EC and Regulation 16(1)(a)(ii) of the Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011 (SI 1848) on the basis that the Contract may be awarded only to the Contractor for technical reasons.
The Contractor is the design authority for, and holder of all relevant intellectual property rights in, the G-AMB radars and the Authority procured:
(ii) logistic support from the Contractor for such radars under a contract entered into on 1.1.2014 (such contracts are due to expire on 31.12.2018).
No licences have been granted to any other persons, including the Authority, to obtain and exploit the drawings and specifications necessary to provide the requirement to support the equipment. The Contractor, as the only manufacturer and supplier of the G-AMB radars, is the only economic operator with the specific knowledge of the system to be able to support such equipment, avoiding incompatibility and safety issues and the need for the re-design of relevant components, and capable of meeting the Authority’s technical requirements under 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 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-2018626-DCB-12680437


Winner: SAAB AB (Publ)
Award value: 20000000