Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2016-10-07
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, DSG, Armoured Vehicles Programmes — Artillery Systems Programme
Country: UK
Region: Telford and Wrekin
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 50344000
Estimated value: 3640000 GBP

Technical requirements: It is the intention to negotiate a single source contract for a period of 5 year with 2 x 1 year options, with Ultra Electronics Precision Air and Land Systems for the Repair of Optical Line Replacement Units (LRUs) as fitted to Warrior, Challenger and Titan/Trojan platforms. It is the intention to negotiate a single source contract for a period of 5 years with 2 x 1 year options, with Ultra Electronics Precision and Air Land Systems for the Repair of Optical Line Replacement Units (LRUs) fitted to the Warrior, Challenger and Titan/Trojan Platforms. This notice is not a request for expressions of interest so please do not apply to be invited to tender. This notice advises that the Authority has decided to negotiate a contract with the named supplier on a single source basis and is published for reasons of transparency. If you are interested in becoming a sub-contractor for this requirement, you should apply directly to the supplier named above.
It is the intention to negotiate a single source contract for a period of 5 years with 2 x 1 year options, with Ultra Electronics Precision and Air Land Systems for the Repair of Optical Line Replacement Units (LRUs) fitted to the Warrior, Challenger and Titan/Trojan Platforms. This notice is not a request for expressions of interest so please do not apply to be invited to tender. This notice advises that the Authority has decided to negotiate a contract with the named supplier on a single source basis and is published for reasons of transparency. If you are interested in becoming a sub-contractor for this requirement, you should apply directly to the supplier named above.
Subject to satisfactory performance and continued requirement the contract shall have 2 x 1 year options.
It is considered this requirement can be placed using the negotiated procedure without prior publication to Article 28(1) (a) of Directive 2009/81/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (Regulation 16(1)(a)(i) of the Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011 due to the absence of suitable applicants in response to the previous ‘restricted’ procedure reference 2015/s 095-172917.
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-2016104-DCB-8897193.


Award value: 3640000