Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-07-04
Buyer: Police Service of Northern Ireland
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 18444110
Estimated value: 208700 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-08-23
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: PSNI require a contract for the supply and delivery of Aviation Helmets and Headsets to include subsequent service and repair. These items are needed to protect officers and support staff from the potential impact of head injury due to sudden movement manoeuvres or direct impact and additionally the headsets will provide hearing protection and direct communications with ground staff and air traffic controllers. Currently there are 60 members of the Air support unit that will require use of these items and the contract will provide for this usage along with a requirement for additional staff over time and non-ASU personnel using this service. The contract shall be divided into 2 lots:
Contractors can bid for 1 or 2 lots, but must be able to provide all items within each lot tendered for.
PSNI require a contract for the supply and delivery of Aviation Helmets and Headsets to include subsequent service and repair. These items are needed to protect officers and support staff from the potential impact of head injury due to sudden movement manoeuvres or direct impact and additionally the Headsets will provide hearing protection and direct communications with ground staff and air traffic controllers. Currently there are 60 members of the Air support unit that will require use of these items and the contract will provide for this usage along with a requirement for additional staff over time and non-ASU personnel using this service. The contract shall be divided into 2 lots:
Contractors can bid for 1 or 2 lots, but must be able to provide all items within each lot tendered for.
PSNI require a contract for the supply and delivery of Aviation Helmets and Headsets to include subsequent service and repair. These items are needed to protect officers and support staff from the potential impact of head injury due to sudden movement manoeuvres or direct impact and additionally the Headsets will provide hearing protection and direct communications with ground staff and air traffic controllers. Currently there are 60 members of the Air support unit that will require use of these items and the contract will provide for this usage along with a requirement for additional staff over time and non-ASU personnel using this service. The contract shall be divided into 2 lots:
Contractors can bid for 1 or 2 lots, but must be able to provide all items within each lot tendered for.
Contract monitoring: the successful contractor's performance will be regularly monitored. Contractors not delivering on contract requirements is a serious matter. It means the public purse is not getting what it is paying for. If a contractor fails to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance they will be given a specified time to improve. If, after the specified time, they still fail to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance, the matter will be escalated to senior management in construction and procurement delivery for further action. If this occurs and their performance still does not improve to satisfactory levels within the specified period, it may be regarded as an act of grave professional misconduct and they may be issued with a notice of written warning and a notice of unsatisfactory performance and this contract may be terminated. The issue of a notice of written warning and a notice of unsatisfactory performance will result in the contractor being excluded from all procurement competitions being undertaken by centres of procurement expertise on behalf of bodies covered by the Northern Ireland Procurement Policy for a period of up to 3 years from the date of issue of the notice.
The UK does not currently have any such bodies with responsibilities for appeal/mediation procedures. CPD will comply with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and where appropriate, will incorporate standstill period (i.e. a minimum of 10 calendar days) at the point information on award of contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. This provides time for the unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into.


Award value: 208700