Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-03-05
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Air Support, Aircraft Commodities Project Team (AC PT)
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 50000000
Estimated value:  GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-04-08
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Repair and maintenance services. The Air Commodities Delivery Team (ACDT) which is part of Air Support Operating centre within Defence Equipment and support, provides global support to Royal Airforce, Royal Navy and Army Air Corps.
ACDT has a potential requirement to provide a spares inclusive, calibration, repair and recondition Service associated training aids for a range of Aircraft Integrity Monitoring Equipment (AIME) which is used for rotor, track and balancing (RTB) of aircraft for up to five (5) years.
There is a possibility that during the life of the proposed contract that the number of platforms supported may increase or decrease.
The contract will be awarded in accordance with the Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations (DSPCR 2011) as applicable.
Interested bidders are invited to provide a response to the Dynamic Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (DPQQ) for this requirement.
If a group of economic operators submits a bid, the group must nominate a lead organisation to deal with the Authority. The Authority shall require the group to form a legal entity before entering into the contract.
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 a security aspects letter, the Authority reserves the right to amend the terms of the security aspects letter 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 Authority will apply all the offences listed in Article 39(1) of Directive 2009/81/EC (implemented as Regulation 23(1) of the Defence and Security Public Contract Regulations (DSPCR) 2011 in the UK) and all of the professional misconducts listed at Article 39(2) of Directive 2009/81/EC (see also Regulation 23(2) in the DSPCR 2011) to the decision of whether a Candidate is eligible to be invited to tender.
A full list of the Regulation 23(1) and 23(2) criteria are at http://www.contracts.mod.uk/delta/project/reasonsForExclusion.html#dspr
Candidates will be required to sign a declaration confirming whether they do or do not have any of the listed criteria as part of the pre-qualification process.
Candidates who have been convicted of any of the offences under Article 39(1) are ineligible and will not be selected to bid, unless there are overriding requirements in the general interest (including defence and security factors) for doing so.
Candidates who are guilty of any of the offences, circumstances or misconduct under Article 39(2) may be excluded from being selected to bid at the discretion of the Authority.
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.
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-2019228-DCB-14189906