Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-02-03
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Land Equipment, Operational Support Programmes (OSP)
Country: UK
Region: Bristol, City of
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 35410000: Armoured military vehicles | 50630000
Estimated value: 30000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-03-13
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Armoured military vehicles. Repair and maintenance services of military vehicles. Armoured military vehicles. Repair and maintenance services of military vehicles. The provision and in-service support (including but not limited to spares, repairs, PDS and ad-hoc tasking) Protected Mobility (PM) vehicles of a modern design for UK Armed Forces.
LPMR will support the rapidly deployable forces (i.e. first-in, airborne or amphibious capability) as well as the regular armed forces. LPMR must therefore provide protected mobility against real world scenarios encountered by military forces conducting Global Operations.
In order to achieve a Planning Assumption for Service Entry (PASE) date during 2019, the LPMR capability is expected to be based on Military off the Shelf (MOTS) mature platforms of modern design.
Whilst a detailed system requirements document will be released as part of the Invitation to Negotiate (ITN), the following should be considered as general characteristics of a vehicle suitable to meet the LPMR requirement.
— LPMR must be capable of being transported by land, sea and air (including but not limited to A400M and C17) with minimal preparation. There is no requirement to transport under slung by rotary wing aircraft.
— To provide Threshold protection to the occupants from ballistic threat at ≥ Stanag Level 2 and blast threat at ≥ Stanag Level 2.
The Authority is considering an initial purchase of around 27 LPMR (precise number to be finalised and advised in the tender documents) along with 5 years of associated support tranches commencing with the first vehicle delivery. The initial contract for demonstration, delivery and initial support is expected to be of around 7 years duration. It is also expected that irrevocable contractual options will be required for additional vehicle quantities (in increments up to a total of around 70) and additional support tranches in increments of 5 years covering a period of 25 years. The ranging and scaling of support may vary through the life of the contract.
— Additional numbers of vehicles (to be defined) in batch buys but which may not run concurrently with the initial purchase.
Exercise of these options will be at the Authority's sole discretion and subject to the contract continuing to demonstrate best value and required performance against Key Performance Indicators. Ranging and scaling of support may vary through the life of the contract.
If a group of economic operators wish to submit a bid, the group must nominate a lead organisation to deal with the Authority, tender and negotiate the contract. The group must form a legal entity prior to entering into the contract.
The Authority reserves the right to amend any condition related to security of information to reflect any changes in national law or government policy. The tender and contract documents will be accompanied by a Security Aspects Letter and the Authority reserves the right to amend the terms of the Security Aspects Letter 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 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.

Eligibility requirements: (a) Appropriate statements from the economic operator's bankers or where appropriate, evidence of relevant professional risk indemnity insurance; (b) The presentation of balance-sheets or extracts from the balance-sheets, where publication of the balance-sheet is required under the law of the country in which the economic operator is established; (c) Where appropriate, a statement, covering the three previous financial years of the economic operator, of:(i) the overall turnover of the business of the economic operator; and (ii) where appropriate, the turnover in respect of the work, works, goods or services which are of a similar type to the subject matter of the contract. Potential Tenderers must demonstrate their Capability and Capacity in accordance with the attached DPQQ to this advert. For this requirement Contractors must demonstrate their financial stability in accordance with the DPQQ.
(a) in the case of a supply contract requiring the siting or installation of goods, a services contract or a works contract, the economic operator's technical ability, taking into account in particular that economic operator's skills, efficiency, experience and reliability. Potential Tenderers must demonstrate their Capability and Capacity in accordance with the attached DPQQ to this advert.