Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2018-03-22
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Ships, Maritime Combat Systems (MCS) Team
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 35512400
Estimated value: 17000000 GBP

Technical requirements: Continuation of support to the RECCE and VSW UUVs for a period of 6 months. Including provision of spare parts, repair services, technical support, maintenance services and associated support activities.
The Secretary of State for Defence (the authority), through the Underwater Electronic Warfare (UEW) Project Team within Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) intends to extend the current support Contract with Hydroid Inc for the continued support of Remus 600 (RECCE) and REMUS 100 (VSW) UUV’s. The current contract is due to expire on 31.3.2018 and the extension is required for a further period of 6 months to 30.9.2018 to prevent a capability gap during the negotiation period for the planned replacement contract.
Remus 600 (RECCE) and Remus 100 (VSW) UUV’s are military use versions of commercially available UUV’s operated in the Mine Counter Measure (MCM) role. They are remotely operated shallow water hydro-graphical seabed mapping systems, both of which were developed and manufactured by Hydroid Inc.
The Secretary of State for Defence (the authority), through the Underwater Electronic Warfare (UEW) project team within Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) intends to extend the current support contract with Hydroid Inc for the continued support of Remus 600 (RECCE) and REMUS 100 (VSW) UUV’s. The current contract is due to expire on 31.3.2018 and the extension is required for a further period of 6 months to 30.9.2018 to prevent a capability gap during the negotiation period for the planned replacement contract.
Remus 600 (RECCE) and Remus 100 (VSW) UUV’s are military use versions of commercially available UUV’s operated in the Mine Counter Measure (MCM) role. They are remotely operated shallow water hydro-graphical seabed mapping systems, both of which were developed and manufactured by Hydroid Inc.
It is considered that this contract can be extended using the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice pursuant to Article 28(1)(e) of Directive 2009/81/EC (Regulation 16(1)(a)(ii) of the UK Defence and security public contracts Regulations 2011) for technical reasons. This is because Hydroid Inc is the original equipment manufacturer for this specialist equipment, and is the only economic entity with the technical expertise, including the knowhow, tooling and access to drawings, data packs and source codes, which is essential to provide in service support.
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-2018320-DCB-12101200.


Winner: Hydroid Inc
Award value: 17000000