Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-07-16
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Weapons, Defence General Munitions (DGM) Project Team
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 35300000: Weapons, ammunition and associated parts
Estimated value:  GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-08-10
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Weapons, ammunition and associated parts. Defence General Munitions have an upcoming requirement for the procurement of a suite of Ceremonial Ammunition. The authority intends to run a Competition for this suite of ammunition. This shall consist of 3 Pounder, 13 Pounder (4oz, 8oz and 1lb variants) and 105 mm blank rounds. These Natures are required for continued use at ceremonial firings on special occasions and at public events. They are fired from the 3 Pounder Naval Gun, the Quick Firing 13 Pounder Field Gun and the electrically initiated L118 105 mm Light Gun. The authority requires a quantity of 80 rounds of each of the 3 Pounder, 13 Pounder (1lb variant) and 105 mm for qualification purposes, to be delivered by no later than March 2021. On successful qualification of the ammunition, the authority anticipates a procurement of the following estimated quantities of ammunition:
Please note, these quantities are indicative and may be subject to change. The contract is scheduled to be awarded no later than Quarter 4 of calendar year 2020. The contract has an anticipated duration of 3 firm years with banded quantity options to enable the authority to procure additional quantities of ammunition. There will also be an option for 2 additional years. An option for the Qualification of the ammunition to ensure safety and suitability for service will also be included.
The authority requires a quantity of 80 rounds of each of the 3 Pounder, 13 Pounder (1lb variant) and 105 mm for qualification purposes, to be delivered by no later than March 2021. On successful qualification of the ammunition, the authority anticipates a procurement of the following estimated quantities of ammunition:
Please note, these quantities are indicative and may be subject to change. The contract is scheduled to be awarded no later than quarter 4 of calendar year 2020. The contract has an anticipated duration of 3 firm years with banded quantity options to enable the authority to procure additional quantities of ammunition. There will also be an option for 2 additional years. An option for the Qualification of the ammunition to ensure safety and suitability for service will also be included.
The contract is scheduled to be awarded no later than quarter 4 of calendar year 2020. The contract has an anticipated duration of 3 firm years, with banded quantity options to enable the authority to procure additional quantities of ammunition throughout these years and in the option years. There will also be option for 2 additional years on the contract. An option for the contractor to conduct the qualification of the ammunition, to ensure safety and suitability for service will also be included.
If a group of economic operators submits a bid, the group must nominate a lead organisation to deal with the authority. The authority shall require the group to form a legal entity before entering into 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 a Security Aspects Letter, the authority reserves the right to amend the terms of the Security Aspects Letter 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 Security Aspects Letter shall be issued at the invitation to tender stage, once tenderer's have been down selected. GFE? check this.
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.
(c) where appropriate, a statement, covering the 3 previous financial years of the economic operator, of:
(ii) where appropriate, the turnover in respect of the work, works, goods or services which are of a similar type to the subject matter of the contract.
The above-mentioned information shall be sought in response to the dynamic pre-qualification questionnaire which accompanies this contract notice.

Eligibility requirements: (c) where appropriate, a statement, covering the 3 previous financial years of the economic operator, of: (i) the overall turnover of the business of the economic operator; and (ii) where appropriate, the turnover in respect of the work, works, goods or services which are of a similar type to the subject matter of the contract. The above-mentioned information shall be sought in response to the dynamic pre-qualification questionnaire which accompanies this contract notice.
(m) in the case of contracts involving, entailing or containing classified information, evidence of the ability to process, store and transmit such information at the level of protection required by the contracting authority The above mentioned information shall be sought in response to the dynamic pre-qualification questionnaire which accompanies this contract notice.
(m) The authority reserves the right under Article 21(5) of Directive 2009/81/EC to reject any potential provider and/or subcontractor chosen by the main contractor at any stage of the contract award procedure or during performance of the contract if that subcontractor: 1) requires access to classified information at Official Sensitive — Commercial; and 2) fails to provide evidence to the satisfaction of the authority that it has the capability to protect that level of classified information in accordance with Article 42.1(j) of Directive 2009/81/EC.