Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2019-04-09
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, DE&S Mat Strat, Other
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 48000000
Estimated value:  GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Software package and information systems. Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) needs to ensure that all airworthiness issues are identified, reported and managed to meet military aviation authority regulatory requirements without which safe operations are compromised and in-service air systems would be grounded. DE&S is now seeking to procure an off the shelf tool to meet this requirement. The system needs be available 24/7 365 days a year with a system availability of at least 99,5 % (for some 6 000 users both internal and external to the UK MoD providing access to historic airworthiness issues records, an audit trail of decisions and associated evidence and functionality to maintain oversight of progression, ownership and performance of airworthiness issues. The system needs to be aligned to the existing DE&S airworthiness issues processes to ensure compliance with military aviation authority regulations and air environment policy and DE&S procedures. The system needs to be hosted in a secure environment with a secure connection to Defence Systems to enable access through MoD IT systems. The system needs to have the facility to store and access data.
DE&S performs a vital, bespoke and challenging role in the support of national security: it equips and supports the UK’s Armed Forces for operations now and in future. In procuring and supporting new military equipment, commodities and services, supporting in-service equipment through life and managing global logistic operations, DE&S is responsible for delivering some of the most complex products and services in the world which covers some 14 000 000 000 GBP per annum of the MOD’s total third party spend with industry. DE&S employs a mix of civil servants and military personnel, plus contractor staff to perform specialist roles and its internal workforce of over 12 000 personnel (as at 1.4.2014) is deployed at over 150 locations in the UK and overseas. Air systems are supported across a number of DE&S Chief of materiel, operating centre and delivery teams with the centre of excellence held in the CoM(AIR) DE&S Airworthiness Team (DAT).
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 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.
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Number of bids: 2