Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2019-08-13
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, DE&S Mat Strat, DE&S Mat Strat
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 48000000
Estimated value:  GBP

Technical requirements: Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) is a bespoke trading entity, an arm’s length body of the Ministry of Defence. It manages a vast range of complex projects supporting all the equipment and services that the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force need to operate effectively.
The current risk management tool will shortly become unsupported and DE&S is looking to engage with the market to procure an enterprise risk management tool.
This prior information notice (PIN) has been issued to invite potential suppliers to meet with DE&S to help us develop our requirement and identify whether there are COTS products already in existence able to meet that requirement. The COTS solution should have a capability to operate in the secret environment, in compliance with JSP 892 and DE&S processes.
Any suppliers who feel their cots product would be capable of delivering a risk management Tool in a large and complex organisation such as DE&S (as briefly described above) are welcome to attend. The market engagement will take the form of one-hour face to face sessions where the supplier will be able to discuss their product and how it can meet the above requirement. Please note product demonstrations are not required and will not be allowed at this time.
Suppliers wishing to attend should register by sending an email to: Ryan.Miller731@mod.gov.uk on or before 30.8.2019.
A 1-page synopsis including details of configuring your product should be provided with your request to attend.
Any potential suppliers not selected to attend the market engagement day will be able to input additional information via an additional submission. A maximum of 2 attendees from any individual company will be invited to attend. Only one registration will be granted per company group (including subsidiaries). Requests for additional attendees from any organisation will be held on a waiting list for consideration.
All of the information contained within this PIN does not constitute and should not be construed as any commitment by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to proceed with any aspect of the activity beyond the market interest days to be held on the 3
This PIN is to alert the market to the potential future requirement and is not a formal request for Expressions of Interest (EOI). A contract notice and dynamic PQQ shall be issued in due course to request EOIs which shall reference this PIN.
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