Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2017-04-22
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Air Support, C17 Command Support and Airborne Equipment Project Team (CSAE PT)
Country: UK
Region: Bristol, City of
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 48610000: Database systems
Estimated value: 700000 GBP
Award criteria: Other

Technical requirements: C17CSAE Project Team, part of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (‘MOD’), intends to award a Contract to Jeppesen UK Limited to procure a C-17 Force Performance Based Navigation (PBN) Database.
This notice is not a request for expressions of interest so please do not apply to be invited to tender. This notice advises that the Authority has decided to negotiate a contract with the named supplier on a single source basis, and is published for reasons of transparency.
C17, Command Support and Airborne Equipment Project Team (C17CSAE PT), part of the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), proposes to place a Category D contract with Jeppesen UK Limited for the provision of a C17 Worldwide Navigational Database, for a duration of 2 years (with Options to extend for a further two years in one year increments).It is considered that this contract can be placed without prior publication of a contract notice pursuant to Article 28(1)(e) of Directive 2009/81/EC (Regulation 16(1)(a)(ii) of the Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011) for technical reasons. This is because the supplier is the only commercial Aeronautical Information supplier with requisite knowledge of C-17 technical systems, has agreements in place with the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) permitting access to OEM proprietary information and has demonstrated the operational usage of their product in support of other national users of the C-17. The interim nature of this contract and current and anticipated growth of the navigational capability shortfalls encountered within the present navigational database do not allow further project risk associated with R&D timelines. This is due to the rapid global deployment of Performance Based Navigation as a technology and the decommissioning of ground navigation beacons.
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-2017420-DCB-10045149.


Winner: Jeppesen UK Limited
Award value: 700000