Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-05-03
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Land Equipment, OSP Programme Management Office (PGMO)
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 42418500 | 43300000 | 50111000: Fleet management and maintenance services
Estimated value:  GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-05-31

Technical requirements: Project MITER: Service Provision Arrangement For Military Construction and Mechanical Handling Capability
Fleet management, repair and maintenance services. Mechanical handling equipment. Construction machinery and equipment. The Authority has a requirement for the fleet management of earth-moving, engineer construction and materiel handling capabilities required to undertake tasks in the United Kingdom (UK), on deployed operations and overseas.
A Dynamic Pre-Qualification Questionnaire has been published on Defence Contracts Online for interested parties to complete and submit by 17:00 on Wednesday 31.5.2018. The requirement is currently delivered through the following three contracts:
CVehicles (EVP/7) – Comprises of engineering, construction and plant equipment to enable manoeuvre, construction, logistics, force protection engineering and life support. Provided under a Private Finance Initiative contract ending in 2021, whereby the current equipment fleet is.
Protected Plant (OSVP/0011) – Engineering Plant protected against a range of blast and ballistic threats. The small protected construction plant fleet is owned by MOD and supported by industry under a contract also ending in 2021.
Defence Mechanical Handling Equipment (DMHE) (SPPT/0015) – Pure Commercial off the Shelf mechanical handling equipment across Defence and as part of the logistic supply chain. It is currently almost entirely provided under the DMHE contract, ending in 2020. The equipment fleet is owned by the contractor and provided to MOD on a period lease basis.
MITER seeks to bring these 3 separate arrangements together under a single fleet management and support/service provision arrangement from 2020. The primary role of the MITER contractor will be to manage and sustain the combined construction and mechanical handling equipment.
Fleet in the United Kingdom (UK), on deployed operations and overseas environments. As the existing arrangements have different expirations date, a transition approach into project MITER may be required.
Currently, this combined activity consists of approximately 4 600 pieces of equipment at approximately 300 locations in 14 countries. The future scenario is expected to be broadly similar, although work is underway to establish the scope for rationalisation and efficiencies and.
Firm Base — This represents enduring UK forces locations, currently still including Germany and Cyprus.
Deployed Benign — Operations, which can be temporary or semi-permanent in nature, in low threat and potentially remote and/or environmentally testing conditions. This environment includes places such as Permanent Joint Operating Bases (PJOBs), overseas training areas e.g. Canada (BATUS), Kenya (BATUK), Brunei and other enduring but non-permanent deployments where combat operations are not being conducted. Assets at sea are also included.
Deployed Tactical - Overseas military operations involving armed conflict which constitute a contingent commitment and are temporary in nature. Sponsored Reserves (SRs) may be appropriate. This environment gives rise to the need for equipment to be held at readiness and ‘train as you fight’ activity conducted in other environments.
As the MITER requirement relates to the provision of services used for military purposes the Authority will follow the Defence and security public contract regulations in respect of this procurement.
The Authority has conducted previous industry engagement using Defence Contracts Online(DCO) and has communicated previous Industry Briefing Events by Prior Information Notices (PIN). Previous Industry Briefing events were held in October 2017 and March 2018.
The intent of Whole Force Approach is to create an effective, agile and resilient capability delivered by an integrated, pre-planned and affordable mix of regular and reserve military, civilian and industry resources to meet Defence Outputs.