Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-04-10
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Ships, Maritime Combat Systems (MCS) Team
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 33157500 | 37412240 | 37412241 | 37412242 | 98363000
Estimated value:  GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-05-08
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Diving instruments or accessories, breathing apparatus for diving, diving wear, diving services, hyperbaric chambers. The requirement under UEW/011 is for a provision and availability driven in-service support of complex diving equipment. This includes:
The contractor will be expected to provide equipment to meet the Authority’s equipment availability targets, this is expected to comprise of a contractor logistic support type arrangement.
The scope of the contract is expected to expand as the Authority intends to procure several diving equipments over the duration of the Contract. The Authority will be responsible for procuring new to service equipment, following an initial bedding-in period responsibility for further procurements and in-service support of that equipment will be passed to the contractor under UEW/011. Over the course of the contract the contractor will be expected to sub-contract with the Authority’s nominated supplier to enable further procurements and provide in-service support to that equipment. The specification of these additional equipments is not defined at this point but may include the following:
The underwater electronic warfare delivery team which forms part of maritime combat systems within defence equipment and support is considering negotiating a contract for the provision and support of complex diving life support equipment.
The Authority currently contracts with several suppliers that provide the range of diving equipment and support that the Authority requires.
The strategy is to replace these multiple contracts with 2 prime contracts to satisfy the Authority’s requirements for diving equipment and support. These 2 prime contracts are:
UEW/012: procurement and reliability in-service support of diving support equipment. This Contract Notice relates to UEW/011 only. If you are interested in tendering for UEW/012 a separate notice has been published for that requirement and you should respond directly to that Notice should you be interested in that opportunity.
The requirement under UEW/011 is for a provision and availability driven in-service support of complex diving equipment. This includes:
The contractor will be expected to provide equipment to meet the Authority’s equipment availability targets, this is expected to comprise of a contractor logistic support type arrangement.
The scope of the contract is expected to expand as the Authority intends to procure several diving equipments over the duration of the contract. The Authority will be responsible for procuring new to service equipment, following an initial bedding-in period responsibility for further procurements and in-service support of that equipment will be passed to the contractor under UEW/011. Over the course of the contract the contractor will be expected to sub-contract with the Authority’s nominated supplier to enable further procurements and provide in-service support to that equipment. The specification of these additional equipments is not defined at this point but may include the following:
Developments in the market may have introduced improved equipments to that currently supplied to the Authority. This may include equipments that provide better capability and/or at a lower price to that of the current equipment. Therefore, tenderers may propose equivalent equipments as part of their solution to those equipments stated in the Invitation to Negotiate (ITN). The supplier must demonstrate that their equivalent equipment at least meets the standards and capability of those equipments currently provided to the Authority. Any proposed equipment that does not meet this requirement will not be considered. Variant bids will therefore be accepted although tenderers must also provide a response against the requirements as set out in the ITN. Copies of systems requirements that detail the performance levels that equivalent equipment must achieve will be issued with the ITN. Any tests or trials needed to demonstrate compliance against these requiremements will be supported by the contractor at its cost. The contractor should provide details in their tender of how it will demonstrate compliance against the system requirements. Tenderers shall also provide details in their tender of any government furnished facilities/information required to support testing and trials.
The expected contract duration is 5 years with options to extend by an additional 2 years. The expected total value of this requirement, including options and expanded scope is 18 000 000 GBP excluding VAT.
Suppliers interested in this requirement should complete the Pre-Qualifying Questionnaire (PQQ) linked to this advertisement.
A maximum of 6 suppliers will be invited to tender, these shall be those suppliers who have provided the 6 highest scoring compliant PQQs.
The requirement is classified to official-sensitive. For the purposes of the Government’s Cyber Essentials Scheme and the level of Cyber Risk associated to this procurement is LOW as defined in DEFSTAN 05-138 (Cyber Security for Defence Suppliers).

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. Full information is contained within the DPQQ Guidance Document attached to 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 (b) a list of works carried out over the past 5 years together with (unless the Contracting Authority specifies that the following certificate should be submitted direct to the Contracting Authority by the person certifying) certificates of satisfactory completion for the most important of those works indicating in each case: (i) the value of the consideration received; (ii) when and where the work or works were carried out; and (iii)specifying whether they were carried out according to the rules of the trade or profession and properly completed. (c) a statement of the principal goods sold or services provided by the supplier or the services provider in the past 5 years, or during a shorter period if necessary, and: (i) the dates on which the goods were sold or the services provided; (ii) the consideration received; (iii) the identity of the person to whom the goods were sold or the service were provided; (iv) any certificate issued or countersigned by that person confirming the details of the contract for those goods sold or services provided; and (v) where: (a) that person was not a Contracting Authority, and (b) the certificate referred to in sub-paragraph (c)(iv) is not available, any declaration by the economic operator attesting the details of the goods sold or services provided; (d) a statement of the technicians or technical services available to the economic operator to: (i) carry out the work under the contract, or (ii) be involved in the production of goods or the provision of services under the contract, particularly those responsible for quality control, whether or not they are independent of the economic operator. (e) a statement of the economic operator's: (i) technical facilities; (ii) measures for ensuring quality; (iii) study and research facilities; and (iv) internal rules regarding intellectual property. (h) the environmental management measures, that the economic operator is able to apply when performing the contract, but only where it is necessary for the performance of that contract; (j) a description of the tools, material, technical equipment, staff numbers, know-how and sources of supply (with an indication of their geographical location when it is outside the territory of the EU) available to the economic operator to perform the contract, cope with any additional needs required by the Contracting Authority as a result of a crisis or carry out the maintenance, modernisation or adaptation of the goods covered by the contract; (l) certification by official quality control institutes or agencies of recognised competence, attesting that the goods to be purchased or hired under the contract conform to standards and technical specifications (within the meaning of regulation 12(1)) identified by the Contracting Authority; (m) in the case of contracts involving, entailing or containing classified information, evidence of the ability to process, store and transmit such information at the level of protection required by the Contracting Authority; (n) a certificate: (i) attesting conformity to quality management systems standards based on the relevant European standard; and (ii) from an independent accredited body established in any Member State conforming to the European standards concerning accreditation and certification. (o) any other evidence of conformity to quality management systems standards which are equivalent to the standards referred to in sub-paragraph (n)(i). Full information is contained within the DPQQ Guidance Document attached to the DPQQ.