Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2019-11-06
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Land Equipment, Other
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 24600000
Estimated value: 4800000 GBP

Technical requirements: Procurement of, and support to, Mini DRFD (CREPON) from/by the OEM MAS Zengrange Ltd. Support will mainly consist of inspection and repair activities but may also include training, obsolescence and other safety areas of support. The procurement of Mini DRFD will form the main part of the contract (in terms of value). It is envisaged that around 50 % of the contract value will be through the tasking mechanism in the contract (for procurement and support), based on rates/costs to be agreed in the contract.
Procurement of, and support to, Mini DRFD. Support will mainly consist of inspection and repair activities but may also include training, obsolescence and other safety areas of support. The procurement of Mini DRFD will form the main part of the contract (in terms of value). It is envisaged that around 50 % of the contract value will be through the tasking mechanism in the contract (for procurement and support), based on rates/costs to be agreed in the contract.
Provision of support activities on a ad-hoc basis during the length of the contract based on agreed firm labour rates.
The special projects explosive ordnance disposal and search (SPEOD&S) delivery team, part of the UK Ministry of Defence (‘MOD’), intends to award a contract to MAS Zengrange Ltd (MASZ), for the purchase of 66 additional mini-demolition remote firing devices (Mini-DRFD/CREPON and CREPON 2) with options to purchase up to 110 more together with provision of through-life in service support to the authority’s existing and additional fleet of CREPON (including CREPON 2) for up to 7,5 years (March 2027). The maximum approximate value of the contract including all exercisable options is 4 800 000 GBP.
It is considered that this contract can be awarded using the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice pursuant to Article 28 (1) (e) of the Directive 2009/81/EC (Regulation 16 (1)(a)(ii) of the UK Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011) for technical reasons. To acquire goods which had different technical characteristics would result in incompatibility with the authority’s existing Crepon and Crepon 2 weapons firing devices and disproportionate technical difficulties in the operation and maintenance between the existing devices and the new devices creating an unacceptable operator safety risk for the authority. In addition MASZ are the only supplier with the specific know-how and data to provide in-depth support to the devices to ensure specified performance of the devices. Furthermore the authority does not have the necessary rights to release any relevant technical data for the purpose of competitive tendering of the additional devices or any consumable spares or any in-service support of the devices and neither has any licence been granted by MASZ to any third party necessary to do the same.
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-2019113-DCB-15537195


Winner: Mas Zengrange Ltd
Award value: 4800000