Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2019-04-03
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Land Equipment, Training and Simulation Systems Programme (TSSP)
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 34152000
Estimated value: 21394837 GBP

Technical requirements: The Training Simulation Systems Programme within Defence Equipment and Support, part of the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), intends to place with Raytheon Systems Limited (RSL) a three-year contract with an additional 4 (four) 1 (one)-year option years for the provision of Contractor Logistic Support (CLS) and Post Design Services (PDS) for the Command and Staff Trainer (CAST). CAST represents a synthetic training system which facilitates Collective Training (CT) from levels 4 to 6, representing higher formation battle training for commanders and their staff, enabling planning and execution of operations within a simulated virtual environment at 3 (three) MOD sites (Catterick and Warminster, UK, and Sennelager, Germany).
The Authority intends on placing a contract with three guaranteed years and four one year options. The first 1 year option will be priced and the remaining 3 years will be unpriced at contract placement. The contract value included in this advert is a ROM cost if all 4 yearly options are taken up by the Authority. The Authority withholds the right not to take up any of these options. The ROM cost of this contract if no yearly options are enacted by the Authority will be 8.71m GBP. This contract award is subject to negotiation under the Single Source Contract Regulations (2014) with the referenced supplier.
It is considered that this contract can be placed using the Negotiated Procedure Without Prior Publication of a contract notice pursuant to Article 28(1)(e) of Directive 2009/81/EC Regulation 16(1)(a)(ii) of the Defence and Security Public Contract Regulations 2011 for Technical Reasons. Raytheon Systems Limited (RSL), as the original Equipment Manufacturer and own the software for the Advanced Battlefield Computer System (ABACUS), which is an integral part of the CAST system. They are therefore the only supplier who has access to the necessary technical data, source code and design drawings to be able to provide CLS which is the provision of a managed service for the maintenance and repair of existing equipment, which is integral to the delivery of CAST. Further for the reasons previously stated, only RSL has the specific skills, know-how and experience to provide Post Design Services (PDS) for modifications and design alterations/enhancements to the existing software due to this technical knowledge. For these technical reasons, the Contract may only be awarded to RSL.
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-2019329-DCB-14648634


Winner: Raytheon Systems Limited UK
Award value: 21394837