Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-08-26
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Ships, Maritime Combat Systems (MCS) Team
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 38113000 | 38114000
Estimated value:  GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-09-20
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Sonars. Echo sounders. The Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) Underwater Electronic Warfare (UEW) Delivery Team (DT) is considering a 10 year in service support contract including spares availability and technology refresh on some of the equipments for Miscellaneous sonar equipment (MSE). Expected start date would be April 2021. The total value (ex VAT) of the contract is expected to range from 20 000 000-27 000 000 GBP.
MSE includes echo sounders, underwater telephones, towed noise sources, and some additional minor sonars. The portfolio includes safety related sonars.
The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement. 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.
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The contracting authority intends to take a maximum of six bidders through to the tender stage, with the highest six scoring bidders advancing to the tender stage. The bidders will be selected based on their scores from the DPQQ linked to this contract notice.
An invitation to negotiate will be sent to the suppliers who passed through the DPQQ stage. All suppliers will return the tender and will be scored against the technical and commercial criteria laid out in the tender. These scores will be taken alongside prices quoted and the final score will be calculated. A maximum of 3 bidders will be selected to go forward to the negotiation phase, those with the highest tender scores in accordance with the evaluation criteria set out in the invitation to negotiate. There will then be a revise and confirm stage, after which a winning bidder will be selected based on the revised tender score. The authority reserves the right to change this process at any point before the invitation to negotiate is published. GO Reference: GO-2019822-DCB-15281985