Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-09-09
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, ISTAR, Special Projects CISR (SPCISR)
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Accelerated restricted procedure
CPV classification: 38651000
Submission deadline: 2019-09-20
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The authority will apply all the offences listed in Article 39(1) of Directive 2009/81/EC (implemented as Regulation 23(1) of the Defence and Security Public Contract Regulations (DSPCR) 2011 in the UK) and all of the professional misconducts listed at Article 39(2) of Directive 2009/81/EC (see also Regulation 23(2) in the DSPCR 2011) to the decision of whether a candidate is eligible to be invited to tender.
A full list of the Regulation 23(1) and 23(2) criteria are at http://www.contracts.mod.uk/delta/project/reasonsForExclusion.html#dspr
Candidates will be required to sign a declaration confirming whether they do or do not have any of the listed criteria as part of the pre-qualification process.
Candidates who have been convicted of any of the offences under Article 39(1) are ineligible and will not be selected to bid, unless there are overriding requirements in the general interest (including defence and security factors) for doing so.
Candidates who are guilty of any of the offences, circumstances or misconduct under Article 39(2) may be excluded from being selected to bid at the discretion of the authority.
The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement. The authority has identified a requirement for a commercially off the shelf (COTS) canine video transmitter for use with a military working dog (MWD) and is inviting Expressions of Interest from suppliers to participate in a possible future competition.
The procurement shall be carried out in accordance with the accelerated restricted competition procedure and selection shall be made through trials and testing of a sample system provided by each supplier.
If invited to tender, suppliers shall be required to submit a sample system to the authority which will then be tested by Defence science and technology laboratories (DSTL) to determine the preferred bidder. A more detailed description of this process can be found below under the heading ‘Procurement Process’.
Whist there is every intention to progress this requirement through to contract via competition, the procurement remains subject to approvals and funding.
1) The following requirements are essential. The authority reserves the right to exclude any system from the competition which does not fulfil any of the below criteria:
(a) the system shall transmit and receive/display of full motion video (FMV) from a military working dog (MWD) to a handler to improve situational awareness in support of military operations;
(b) the system shall be spine mounted on the MWD with the EO sensor forward facing and either overhead projecting or a low profile, giving line of sight over the MWD's head;
(e) the system shall have an Infra Red (IR) capabilty that allows identification of targets at a minimum of 5 m in low light conditions;
(f) the system shall operate over ranges of 150 m or greater in a cluttered urban environment with an obstructed LOS;
(h) the system shall allow 4 MWDs to operate within range of each other without interference. (ie being able to select from 4 frequency channels or equivalent of each system);