Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2017-10-24
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Ships, Communications and Situational Awareness (CSA)
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 32570000
Estimated value: 4797000 GBP

Technical requirements: Post Design Services, Spares and Repairs for legacy external communication outfits EUC, KMY, KMW, SEZ, IMT, TRAHMS and 1CLF.
1. Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S), Communications and Situational Awareness Project Team, part of the UK Ministry of Defence, intends to extend an existing Contract with Leonardo Ltd (the Company) for Post Design Services, Spares and Repairs for legacy external communication outfits EUC, KMY, KMW, SEZ, IMT, TRAHMS and 1CLF for a further period of 1 year plus 1 option year to 30.9.2019. The estimated value of the Contract extension period is 993 000 GBP bringing the total to 4 797 000 GBP.
2. It is considered that this contract can 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 and Regulation 16(1)(a)(ii) of the Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011 (SI 1848), on the basis that the contract may be awarded only to the Company for technical reasons.
3. The Ministry of Defence owns the existing legacy EUC, KMY, KMW, SEZ, IMT, TRAHMS and 1CLF equipments (the Equipment) which are fitted to Surface and Submarine Vessels in the British Royal Navy. The Equipment provides external communication and messaging capabilities fitted within these platforms.
4. KMY, IMT and 1CLF are obsolescent products developed by, produced, maintained and supported by the Company but in order to sustain the operational capability they must be maintained until replacements are procured. The Company is the Design Authority and Original Equipment Manufacturer and is the only economic operator with the necessary technical know-how, tooling, and software/test equipment to carry out the contract.
5. Proprietary information owned by the Company includes technical drawings and data sets which are necessary to support the Equipment to the required standard. Furthermore, the Company is the only organisation that owns the legacy test jigs and tooling required to perform diagnosis, production of spares, repairs and cannibalisation of the Equipment. The Ministry of Defence does not hold/have access to this information to enable fulfilment of this requirement by a third party. EUC and KMW equipment has additional security requirements which only the Company can meet in order to provide support to the British Royal Navy.
6. This VEAT Notice is not a request for Expression of Interest (EoI). This notice advises that the Ministry of Defence has decided to negotiate a contract with the named supplier on a single source basis, and is published for reasons of transparency. If you are interested in becoming a sub-contractor for this requirement you should apply directly to the supplier named above.
Post Design Services, Spares and Repairs for legacy external communication outfits EUC, KMY, KMW, SEZ, IMT, TRAHMS and 1CLF
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-20171020-DCB-11235149.


Winner: Leonardo MW Limited
Award value: 4797000