Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-12-16
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, DE&S Mat Strat, Air Defence and Electronic Warfare Systems
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 35723000 | 73436000 | 75221000: Military defence services
Estimated value:  GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-01-20
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Test and evaluation of military electronic systems. Military defence services. Air defence radar. Air Defence flight checking contract — the contract will be for a duration of 3 years with the option of 2 further 12 month extensions. The contract is for the provision of Air Defence Flight checking — Flight checking will be required to cover the following AD Radar locations in Benbecula, Buchan, Brizlee Wood, Portreath, Saxa Vord, Staxton Wold, Trimingham.
Air Defence Flight checking contract — the contract will be for a duration of 3 years with the option of 2 further 12 month extensions. The contract is for the provision of Air Defence Flight checking — Flight checking will be required to cover the following AD Radar locations in Benbecula, Buchan, Brizlee Wood, Portreath, Saxa Vord, Staxton Wold, Trimingham.
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.
Candidates who have been convicted of any of the offences under Article 39 (1) are ineligible and will not be selected to bid, unless there are overriding requirements in the general interest (including defence and security factors) for doing so.
Candidates who are guilty of any of the offences, circumstances or misconduct under Article 39 (2) may be excluded from being selected to bid at the discretion of the authority.
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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