Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2018-11-09
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, ISTAR, Joint Electronic Surveillance (JES) Delivery Team
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 48822000: Computer servers
Estimated value: 2000000 GBP

Technical requirements: The UK MOD intends to award Mercury Computer Systems Ltd a contract for the purchase of an appropriate Open Architecture Hardware Platform. The contract will be for a maximum duration of 24 months and for an estimated value of 1 000 000 GBP and 2 500 000 GBP.
Justification for non-competitive decision: for reasons of integration and interoperability with previous systems built on Mercury hardware, a single-source contract is deemed the lowest risk and most viable option.
It is considered that this contract can be awarded using the Negotiated Procedure without prior publication of a Contract Notice pursuant to Article 28 (1) (e) of the Directive 2009/81/EC (Regulation 16 (1)(a)(ii) of the UK Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011) for technical reasons.
The UK MOD intends to award Mercury Computer Systems Ltd a contract for the purchase of an appropriate Open Architecture Hardware Platform. The contract will be for a maximum duration of 24 months and for an estimated value of 1 000 000 GBP and 2 500 000 GBP.
It is considered that this contract can be awarded using the Negotiated Procedure without prior publication of a Contract Notice pursuant to Article 28 (1)(e) of the Directive 2009/81/EC (Regulation 16 (1)(a)(ii) of the UK Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011) for technical reasons.
Justification for non-competitive decision: for reasons of integration and interoperability with previous systems built on Mercury hardware, a single-source contract is deemed the lowest risk and most viable option.
This notice is not a request for expressions of interest 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, apply directly to the named supplier above.
It is considered that this contract can be awarded using the Negotiated Procedure without prior publication of a Contract Notice pursuant to Article 28 (1) (e) of the Directive 2009/81/EC (Regulation 16 (1)(a)(ii) of the UK Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011) for technical reasons.
For reasons of integration and interoperability with previous systems built on Mercury hardware, a single-source contract is deemed the lowest risk and most viable option.
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-2018117-DCB-13512237


Winner: Mercury Computer Systems Ltd
Award value: 2000000