Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-02-25
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, DSG, Defence Support Group (DSG)
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 35341000
Estimated value:  GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-03-22
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: Parts of light firearms. Babcock DSG Limited which is acting as the agent for the UK Ministry of Defence has a requirement for the supply of spares and associated items for the cadet target rifle.
Expressions of interest are invited from suitably qualified companies with experience in the supply of cadet target rifle spares or products of a similar nature.
The supply of the deliverables will be carried out in strict accordance of the drawings/specifications provided. Drawings will be provided with the Invitation to Tender.
Expressions of Interest to participate in this requirement are to be submitted via DCO by completing the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ). The PQQ shall be assessed on the DCO using the scoring/selection criteria given within the PQQ and with each question.
Potential suppliers will be expected to provide evidence of having supplied and/or manufactured articles of a similar engineering nature as part of their PQQ response.
It is the intention to invite to tender up to 5–10 economic operators. Only those suppliers who provide all mandatory information and are not subject to a mandatory exclusion will be invited to tender.
The initial competition shall be conducted on a list of items representative of the range of items in scope of this requirement. Potential operators shall be provided with NATO Stock Numbers and the relevant drawings. Potential providers shall be required to source items as the authority reserves the right to add similar items to the Contract during its lifetime.
Any resulting Contract shall contain a set of Key Performance Indicators to measure performance in areas such as delivery and quality, and shall include remedies for poor performance.
In accordance with the Government’s transparency agenda, the Authority shall publish the tender and Contract documents online. Further guidance shall be provided with the ITT.
No business whatsoever is guaranteed under any resulting framework agreement or contract indeed there is no guarantee that any framework agreement or contract will be put in place in relation to this notice. No compensation, etc. will be paid if a tender or resulting framework agreement is withdrawn for any reason. Potential providers should take part in this process only on the basis that they fully understand and accept this position.
The Cyber Security Code is RAR-C2HB6EGN and the cyber risk is low. All potential operators who are invited to tender must complete the Supplier Assurance Questionnaire (SAQ) via the Supplier Cyber Protection Service (Octavian) https://supplier-cyber-protection.service.gov.uk/ to demonstrate their compliance with the required cyber risk level. This is a self-assurance process and no validation of the SAQ return is required.
This is a 5-year Contract with firm prices for 2 years with the option to take up the remaining 3 years.
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.

Eligibility requirements: Details as described in DPQQ.
Details as described in DPQQ. Details as described in DPQQ.