Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2016-09-10
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Helicopters, Other
Country: UK
Region: Bristol, City of
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 50210000: Repair and maintenance of aircraft
Estimated value: 3500000000 GBP

Technical requirements: Servicios de reparación y mantenimiento y servicios asociados relacionados con aeronaves y otros equipos
Services de réparation, d'entretien et services connexes relatifs aux aéronefs et à d'autres équipements
Full service support contract for the UK Apache AH-64E helicopters (AH Mk2) (and associated equipment) that will provide repair and maintenance, materiel support and design organisation services and maintainer, air- and ground-crew training (including management and maintenance of associated training equipment).
Full service support contract for the UK Apache AH-64E helicopters (AH Mk2) (and associated equipment) that will provide repair and maintenance, material support and design organisation services and maintainer, air- and ground-crew training (including management and maintenance of associated training equipment).
The Apache CSP Team, part of the UK Ministry of Defence, intends to place a 20 year contract with Boeing Defence UK Limited (BDUK) for the long term support of the UK's Apache AH-64E (AH Mk2) helicopters and associated maintainer, air- and ground-crew training.
It is considered that this Contract can be placed with BDUK using the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice pursuant to Article 28(1)(e) of Directive 2009/81/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (Regulation 16(1)(a)(ii) of the Defence and Security Public Contract Regulations 2011) for technical reasons and for reasons connected with the protection of exclusive rights.
BDUK, as the platform designer and manufacturer, owns various intellectual property rights connected to the Apache AH-64E variant that it is considered would be required by any third party to deliver the Contract requirements. BDUK has provided no licences to such intellectual property to any other economic operator in connection with the manufacture or support of the AH-64E variant.
Moreover, BDUK is the only economic operator with the necessary technical know-how, tools and means, and with the necessary access to essential technical information (including the manufacturing dataset, drawing set and software code to the AH-64E variant), required to provide the services to the required technical and safety standards. BDUK is also the lead system integrator for the USA's AH-64E variant and it is considered that any other economic operator would incur technical and integration risks brought about by a lack of access to wider systems design information.
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: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-security-classifications
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-201698-DCB-8753187.


Award value: 3500000000