Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2019-04-02
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, IMOC, Other
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 75220000: Civil defence services | 79418000
Estimated value: 900000000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The UK MOD intends to amend the LCS(T) contract, that it awarded to Leidos Europe Ltd in April 2015, to increase the scale of the procurement services role.
The UK Ministry of Defence (UK MOD) intends to amend the Logistics and Commodities Services (Transformation) (LCS(T)) contract, that it awarded to Leidos Europe Ltd in April 2015, to increase the scale of the procurement services role as indicated in the Contract Notice (2013/S 025-038755) published on 5.2.2013.
Section II.2.2) of that Contract Notice stated that the UK MOD might increase the scale of Leidos' procurement services role, covering approximately 55 000 additional Nato Stock Numbers (NSNs) of raw materials and consumables. This Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice (VTN) is an updated version of Notice 2017/S 129-264893, published July 2017. Whilst this VTN covers the same scope as that VTN (2017/S 129-264893), it has been issued given no contract was entered into post publication of the previous VTN and to include more mature information that has become available in the interim period.
The items that the UK MOD now proposes to add to Leidos' procurement services role within the LCS(T) contract, as it considers that they fall within the scope of the original contract notice, are the following and amount to approximately 55 000 NSNs:
— screws, bolts, studs, nuts, washers, nails, pins, springs, rivets, fasteners, packers, seals, gaskets, o-rings, spacers and shims,
— electronic components (including: resistors, capacitors, filters, fuses, circuit breakers, switches, connectors, terminals, relays, coils, transformers, electron tubes, semiconductors, microcircuits, electronic modules, insulators and amplifiers),
— tools (including machine, hand, welding, soldering, punching, cutting, power, drilling, measuring, sanding, gauges and boxes),
The UK MOD further proposes to add to the LCS(T) contract, also in respect of the procurement services undertaken by Leidos:
— approximately 2 000 NSNs of commodities, which are already within the CPVs cited in the original contract notice, i.e. 33000000 — medical equipments, pharmaceuticals, and personal care products, 18000000 — clothing, footwear, luggage articles and accessories; 15000000 — food, beverages, tobacco and related products; 24951100 — lubricants,
— approximately 6000 NSNs of commodities, where the majority of the category, within which these NSNs sit, is already within the LCS(T) contract.
The LCS(T) contract requires Leidos Europe Ltd in its procurement services role, conducted via Leidos Supply Limited (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Leidos Europe Ltd), to compete those procurements in compliance with the UK Public Procurement Regulations.
The expected value of the additional commodity items is estimated to be 100 000 000 GBP per annum for the remaining duration of the LCS(T) contract (c. 9 years) which is within the total advertised value, including the additional scope advertised in the Contract Notice, of 13 000 000 000 GBP.
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.
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


Winner: Leidos Europe Ltd
Award value: 900000000