Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2017-08-26
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Land Equipment, Land Concept & Assessment
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 42418500 | 43300000 | 50111000: Fleet management and maintenance services
Estimated value: 650000000 GBP

Technical requirements: The purpose of this Prior Information Notice is to inform candidate suppliers that DE&S Land Concept & Assessment (LCA) Project Team will be holding an Industry Engagement Day in respect of the Authority's requirement for fleet management of earthmoving, engineer construction and materiel handling capabilities required to undertake tasks in the United Kingdom (UK), on deployed operations and overseas.
The aim of this Industry Engagement Day is to give an overview of Project MITER and provide updated information on the project, including procurement timelines and Whole Force Approach.
The Industry Engagement event will be held at Tidworth on 24.10.2017. A series of one-to-one sessions with individual candidate suppliers will be held on 25.10.2017 and 26.10.2017 at MOD Abbey Wood, Bristol. This will provide an opportunity to ask questions about the project. Please be aware that these questions will be collated, anonymised and distributed with answers to all candidate suppliers in order to maintain transparency and equality of information.
Suppliers with an interest in Project MITER at a prime or sub-contractor level are encouraged to attend. However, it should be noted that MOD will be seeking tenders and a subsequent single contract for the total service provision and will not be dividing MITER into tender lots or separate contracts. It is hoped that this event will provide the stimulus for candidate prime and sub-contractors to begin engagement towards forming candidate supply chains to bid to deliver MITER.
Requests for attendance should be made by email to DESLELCA-Comrcl-MITER@mod.gov.uk no later than 22.9.2017. A short attendance proforma will be provided for completion and return.
A previous PIN was published for MITER on 11.2.2015 followed by an Industry Engagement Briefing held on 24.10.2016.
C-Vehicles (EVP/7) — Comprises of engineering, construction and plant equipment to enable manoeuvre, construction, logistics, force protection engineering and life support. Provided under a Private Finance Initiative contract ending in 2021, whereby the current equipment fleet is owned by the contractor and loaned to MOD on demand.
Protected Plant (OSVP/0011) — Engineering Plant protected against a range of blast and ballistic threats. The small protected construction plant fleet is owned by MOD and supported by industry under a contract also ending in 2021.
Defence Mechanical Handling Equipment (DMHE) (SPPT/0015) — Pure Commercial off the Shelf mechanical handling equipment across Defence and as part of the logistic supply chain. It is currently almost entirely provided under the DMHE contract, ending in 2020. The equipment fleet is owned by the contractor and provided to MOD on a period lease basis.
MITER seeks to bring these 3 separate arrangements together under a single fleet management and support/service provision arrangement from 2020. The primary role of the MITER contractor will be to manage and sustain the combined construction and mechanical handling equipment fleet in the United Kingdom (UK), on deployed operations and overseas environments. Currently, this combined activity consists of approximately 4 600 pieces of equipment at approximately 300 locations in 14 countries. The future scenario is expected to be broadly similar, although work is underway to establish the scope for rationalisation and efficiencies and the effect of the recent Strategic Defence and Security Review.
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-2017824-DCB-10891691.