Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2017-11-10
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Land Equipment, Protected Mobility Vehicle Programme
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 35400000: Military vehicles and associated parts
Estimated value: 10000000 GBP

Technical requirements: Protected Mobility Vehicle Portfolio (‘PMVP’), as part of the UK Ministry of Defence (‘MoD’), intends to extend the contract for Post Design Services (‘PDS’) in support of the Foxhound vehicle with Force Protection Europe Ltd (Company Registration Number 6681502) for an additional 6 months, with the value of the core service and additional tasking activity associated with this extension being estimated at 1 000 000 GBP. This extension of the contract shall be placed using the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice pursuant to Article 28(1) (e) of Directive 2009/81/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (Regulation 16(1) (a) (ii) of the UK Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011). This is because, Force Protection Europe Ltd, as manufacturers of the vehicle have exclusive non authority access to the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), original drawings and associated confidential manufacturing data and the underlying technical know-how needed to provide the Design Authority (DA) service required as part of the PDS contract. All modifications to the platform must be underwritten by the DA in order to provide the Authority with the required assurances that the proposed modifications will not compromise either operational effectiveness or the safety of the platform. Without access to the DA data, any modifications developed by a third party would need to be supported by a completely new Safety Case at considerable time and expense to provide the necessary confidence that the integrity of the vehicles has not been compromised. This additional obligation would result in technical and safety difficulties which would have an immediate impact on the effectiveness of operations together with an adverse impact on time and cost. This extension is required to provide continuity of contractual support pending the potential placement of the Protected Mobility Strategic Support (‘PM SS’) 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. 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-2017118-DCB-11357091.


Winner: Force Protection Europe Limited
Award value: 10000000