Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-02-03
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Land Equipment, Operational Support Programmes (OSP)
Country: UK
Region: Bristol, City of
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 35410000: Armoured military vehicles | 50630000
Estimated value: 170000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-03-13
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Supply and Support of a Multi-Role Vehicle Protected (MRV-P) Troop Carrying Vehicle (TCV) and Future Protected Battlefield Ambulance (FPBFA).
Armoured military vehicles. Repair and maintenance services of military vehicles. Armoured military vehicles. Repair and maintenance services of military vehicles. The provision and in-service support (including but not limited to spares, repairs, PDS and ad-hoc tasking) Protected Mobility (PM) vehicles capable of providing a ‘Troop carrying’ and Pre-Hospital Emergency Care (PHEC) and Medical Evacuation (MEDEVAC) ambulance capability of a modern design. In addition, the Contractor will be required to integrate UK Armed Forces specific mission equipment with the vehicles.
Multi Role Vehicle — Protected (MRV-P) Troop Carrying Vehicle (TCV) and Future Protected Battlefield Ambulance (FPBFA) are intended to be based on a common base platform with sufficient flexibility to satisfy a number of roles. The TCV and FPBFA variants will support the rapidly deployable forces (i.e. first-in, airborne or amphibious capability) as well as the regular armed forces. TCV and FPBFA must therefore provide protected mobility against real world scenarios encountered by military forces conducting Global Operations.
As core equipment, TCV and FPBFA shall have an in-service life of at least 25 years. It is intended that the TCV variant will provide the base platform to satisfy wider requirements which include but are not limited to EOD, RMP, Engineer Support, and Gun Limber. Any requirements for these variants will be completed via Ad Hoc Tasking, post Contract Award.
In order to achieve a Planning Assumption for Service Entry (PASE) date during 2019, the TCV and FPBFA capability is expected to be based on Military off the Shelf (MOTS) mature platforms of modern design capable of incorporating the required Personnel and Medical mission fits.
Whilst a detailed requirements document will be released as part of the Invitation to Negotiate (ITN), the following should be considered as general characteristics of a vehicle suitable to meet the TCV and FPBFA requirement.
— 6 x Personnel ( FPBFA) — Combination of permanent seating for 2 x Medical Attendants seated at the head of the stretcher and ability to transport 2 stretchered casualties or 1 stretchered casualty and 3 Seated Casualties and combinations thereof.
— FPBFA must allow Medical Attendants to carry out a number of medical tasks while the vehicle is stationary and in motion.
— Must have sufficient capacity to carry occupants and personal equipment, UK mission systems, Complete Equipment Schedule (CES) and appropriate medical equipment for FPBFA.
— Must be capable of being transported by land, sea and air (including but not limited to A400M and C17) with minimal preparation. There is no requirement to transport under slung by rotary wing aircraft.
— To provide threshold protection to the occupants from ballistic threat at ≥ Stanag Level 2 and blast threat at ≥ Stanag Level 2.
The Authority is considering the purchase of around 150 TCV and 80 FPBFA vehicles including 12 simulators initially (precise number to be finalised and advised in the tender documents) along with 5 years of associated support. The initial contract for delivery and initial support is expected to be of around 7 years duration. It is also expected that irrevocable contractual options will be required for additional vehicle quantities (in increments up to a total of around 300 TCV and 300 FPBFA) and support covering a period of 25 years. The ranging and scaling of support may vary through the life of the contract.
— Additional numbers of vehicles (to be defined) in batch buys but which may not run concurrently with the initial purchase;
Exercise of these options will be at the Authority's sole discretion and subject to the contract continuing to demonstrate best value and required performance against Key Performance Indicators. Ranging and scaling of support may vary through the life of the contract.
If a group of economic operators wish to submit a bid, the group must nominate a lead organisation to deal with the Authority, tender and negotiate the contract. The group must form a legal entity prior to entering into the contract.

Eligibility requirements: (a) Appropriate statements from the economic operator's bankers or where appropriate, evidence of relevant professional risk indemnity insurance; (b) The presentation of balance-sheets or extracts from the balance-sheets, where publication of the balance-sheet is required under the law of the country in which the economic operator is established; (c) where appropriate, a statement, covering the 3 previous financial years of the economic operator, of: (i) the overall turnover of the business of the economic operator; and (ii) where appropriate, the turnover in respect of the work, works, goods or services which are of a similar type to the subject matter of the contract; Potential Tenderers must demonstrate their Capability and Capacity in accordance with the attached DPQQ to this advert. For this requirement Contractors must demonstrate their financial stability in accordance with the defined criteria in the DPQQ.
(a) in the case of a supply contract requiring the siting or installation of goods, a services contract or a works contract, the economic operator's technical ability, taking into account in particular that economic operator's skills, efficiency, experience and reliability. Potential tenderers must demonstrate their Capability and Capacity in accordance with the attached DPQQ to this advert.