Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2019-04-05
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Air Support, Flight Simulation and Synthetic Trainers Project Team (FSAST PT)
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 34741400
Estimated value: 26600000 GBP
EU fund: ESF

Technical requirements: Provision of synthetic training for Hawk T Mk1 aircraft for period October 2020 to March 2030 including maintenance and support of simulation equipment.
Provision of synthetic training in support of the Hawk T Mk1 aircraft for the period 1.10.2020 to 31.3.2030 or the Out of Service Date of the aircraft if earlier. Also to include maintenance, support and upgrade of the simulator equipment and address legacy obsolescence issues. Approved budgetary limit for the contract is 26 600 000 GBP.
It is considered that this contract can be placed using the Negotiated Procedure without Prior Publication 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) for technical reasons. This is because BAE Systems (Operations) Ltd and their subsidiaries are the only companies to have access to the Hawk T Mk1 data packs and other technical information in order to supply the Authority with an accurate replica of the Hawk T Mk1 aircraft for the use of synthetic training for all RAF and Royal Navy Hawk user groups. The UK RAF and Royal Navy require use of high fidelity synthetic training devices to ensure suitably trained staff for safe effective and efficient operational delivery.
As the company currently providing the training BAE Systems (Operations) Ltd are also the only company in a position to provide training without interruption or a handover period which has been identified as a Key User Requirement that is critical to the provision of ab initio and adversarial training in support of the RAF’s entire Fast Jet Fleet. Additionally an uninterrupted supply of simulator training is also essential to the provision of currency training for the RAF Aerobatic Team (Red Arrows) and Royal Navy Hawk fleet.
Therefore due to data access restrictions and in order to maintain safety to life, it is considered that only BAE Systems (Operations) Ltd are capable of providing the service required.
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-201942-DCB-14717714


Winner: BAE Systems
Award value: 26600000