Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-11-08
Buyer: Leidos Supply Ltd
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 15000000 | 15800000 | 15881000 | 15890000 | 15894000
Estimated value: 70000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-01-25
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: Team Leidos, under the scope of the Logistics Commodities Support (Transformation) — LCS(T) contract, has a requirement for the supply of a range of Operational Ration Packs (ORP) to support expeditionary military operations and exercises undertaken by the UK Armed Forces.
A flexible range of rations are required to meet the cognitive, nutritional and energy needs of the servicemen and women in the field. Due to the transient nature of military operations, routinely taking place all over the world, the ORP components will need to withstand a variety of climates and have an extended shelf life on delivery into the designated storage facility, which is currently planned to be the Defence Fulfilment Centre in Donnington, Shropshire.
The ORP requirement has been split over four individual lots as follows: Lot 1 — Supply of Food Components and Sundry Items; Lot 2 — Supply of Packaging Materials; Lot 3 — Packing of ORP, and; Lot 4 — Supply of Survival Rations.
The main ORP is the 24-Hr ORP, which typically consists of wet or freeze-dried main meal pouches (breakfast, lunch and dinner), snacks (chocolate bars, fruit/cereal bars, sweets and nuts, etc), fruit purees and powdered drinks, chewing gum, tea/coffee, whiteners, sugar, water sterilisation tablets, flameless ration heaters or windproof/waterproof matches, wet wipes, tissues and eating utensils.
Leidos is seeking to order food components and sundry items (Lot 1) and packaging materials (Lot 2) from suppliers for delivery into a packing supplier (Lot 3) for consolidation and onward delivery to the designated storage facility. The food components and sundry items have the requirement of a shelf life of not less than 24 months on delivery into the designated storage facility.
Survival Rations (Lot 4) are to be treated separately to this and will be procured as complete ration packs, delivered directly from the supplier to the designated storage facility. The survival rations have the additional requirement of a shelf life of not less than 48 months on delivery into the designated storage facility.
Leidos intends to award Lot 1 on an individual line item basis and Lots 2, 3 and 4 on a total Lot basis.
The anticipated contract award date is April 2017 for a service commencement date of 4.10.2017. The contract duration is 2 years with an additional 2 1-year option periods.
Lot 1 is specifically for the sourcing, manufacture and supply of all food components and sundry items used within the UK MOD Operational Ration Packs. The food components and sundry items supplied under Lot 1 shall be delivered to a packer (Lot 3 supplier) for packing into packaging material provided by another supplier (Lot 2) and subsequent delivery of the completed rations into Leidos' nominated storage facility, currently planned to be the Defence Fulfilment Centre (DFC) in Donnington, Shropshire.
Lot 2 is specifically for the sourcing, manufacture and supply of packaging materials for UK MOD Operational Ration Packs (ORP). The packaging materials supplied under Lot 2 shall be delivered to a packer (Lot 3 supplier) for use in packing the food components and sundry items (Lot 1) and subsequent delivery of the completed rations into Leidos' nominated storage facility, currently planned to be the Defence Fulfilment Centre (DFC) in Donnington, Shropshire.
Lot 3 is for the provision of a packing service for UK MOD Operational Ration Packs (ORP). Food components and sundry items supplied under Lot 1 and packaging materials supplied under Lot 2 shall be delivered to the Lot 3 supplier for packing and subsequent delivery of the completed rations into Leidos' nominated storage facility, currently planned to be the Defence Fulfilment Centre (DFC) in Donnington, Shropshire.
Lot 4 is specifically for the sourcing, manufacture and supply of survival rations for UK MOD Operational Ration Packs (ORP). The survival rations supplied under Lot 4 shall be delivered into Leidos' nominated storage facility, currently planned to be the Defence Fulfilment Centre (DFC) in Donnington, Shropshire.
If a group of economic operators submits a bid, the group must nominate a lead organisation to deal with Leidos Supply, Ltd. Leidos Supply, Ltd shall require the group to form a legal entity before entering into the contract.
Leidos Supply Ltd uses an eSourcing application based on the class leading IBM Emptoris platform as the way of working with our Commodity Supplier's. Commodity Supplier's must register on the Leidos Supply Ltd Portal [http://www.leidos-supply.uk/] in order to request participation in any of our tender opportunities. All tender submissions for tenders raised within the Leidos Supply Ltd eSourcing solution must be made via the application, including all communications during the tender process which must be carried out through the application's ‘messaging centre’
Potential Provider's to note that the Government has introduced, as from 2.4.2014, its new Government Security Classifications Policy (GSC) to replace the previous Government Protective Marking Scheme. A key aspect of this is the reduction in the number of security classifications used. All Commodity Supplier to Leidos Supply Ltd are encouraged to make themselves aware of the changes, the link below to the Gov.uk web site provides information on the new GSC.

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