Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2016-01-08
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, C&C, Other
Country: UK
Region: Dorset CC
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 80510000 | 80531200
Estimated value: 23775888 GBP
Award criteria: The criteria specified in the invitation to tender

Technical requirements: The criteria specified in the invitation to tender
Specialist training services. Technical training services. The Ministry of Defence has a further requirement for the provision of non-tactical Training, Maintenance and Support Services (TMASS) for the Director General Army Recruiting and Training (DG ART) at the Armour Centre in Bovington Dorset. The requirement is to provide TMASS to enable the delivery of Armoured Vehicle (AV) trained personnel to Defence.
The Army Recruitment and Training Division (ARTD), part of the UK Ministry of Defence intends to place a contract with Babcock Land Limited for technical, maintenance and support services at Bovington. The estimated value of the contract is up to 47 000 000 GBP. It is considered that this contract can be placed using the negotiated procedure without prior publication pursuant to Article 28 (1) (b) Directive 2009/81/EC (Regulation 16 (1) (f) (ii) of the Defence and Security Public Contract Regulations 2011 (DSPCR)). A competitive negotiated procedure in accordance with Article 26 Directive 2009/81/EC (Regulation 18 DSPCR) was initially commenced for this requirement and resulted in the receipt of 2 expressions of interest. 1 was found to be unacceptable following an evaluation made in accordance with Regulations 23, 24, 25 and 26 DSPCR and so the procedure was discontinued. Negotiations have been conducted only with the economic operator that was not excluded in the discontinued procedure and the original terms of the proposed contract under the competitive procedure have not been substantially altered.
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From 2.4.2014 the Government is introducing its new Government Security Classifications Policy (GSC) to replace the current Government Protective Marking Scheme. A key aspect of this is the reduction in the number of security classifications used. All suppliers to the Department are encouraged to make themselves aware of the changes as it may impact on this Requirement. The link below to the http://gov.uk website provides information on the new GSC.
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.
This contract opportunity is published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU), the MoD Defence Contracts Bulletin and www.contracts.mod.uk


Winner: Babcock Land Limited
Number of bids: 1