Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2016-09-02
Buyer: Ministerie van Defensie/ Defensie Materieel Organisatie
Country: NL
Region: NEDERLAND
Contract type: Supplies
CPV classification: 35400000: Military vehicles and associated parts | 50630000

Technical requirements: Vehicles 12kN and RCWS, project of the Defence-wide Replacement Programme of Operational Wheeled Vehicles (Dutch acronym: DVOW).
Delivery of military vehicles in different variants with a load capacity of 12kN including the delivery of Remote Control Weapon Systems (RCWS), protection packages, add-ons, attachments and services and maintenance of the delivered vehicles, RCWS, protection packages, add-ons and attachments.
The vehicles 12kN project consist of a (single) European procurement procedure for 5 types with the following indicative quantities: 250 Softtops, 310 Hardtops, 210 Pick-ups, 90 Casualty transport vehicles and 60 Military Police /Air Force Security Vehicles (MP/AFSV). The Softtop and Hardtop shall accommodate a crew of 2+2. The Pick-up shall accommodate a crew of 2. The Casualty transport shall accommodate a crew of 2 and either 2 lying of 4 sitting casualties. The MP/AFSV shall accommodate a crew of 2+6. The vehicles have high off-road mobility requirements. All occupants must be protected against ballistic threats to a level exceeding Level 2 conform STANAG 4569 through the use of permanent and/or modular protection. The DMO strives to procure one 12kN vehicle family of a single series having the same structural, drive train, electrical and other components. In case the requirements cannot be met within a single vehicle family, a distinction in one series of the types Softtop, Hardtop, Pick-up and Casualty transport and one series of the type MP/AFSV is allowed. Add-ons and attachments include ring mounts, swing mounts, winches, driving instruction modules and assault ladders.
In addition to the initial delivery the DMO shall have the option to invoke additional vehicles, RCWS, protection packages, add-ons, attachments and additional components. Furthermore, the future supplier must arrange for the provision of training, training documentation, maintenance documentation and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) data.
The future supplier shall perform maintenance on the delivered 12kN vehicles, RCWS, protection packages, add-ons and attachments with a minimum term, starting after delivery of the first vehicle and ending 10 years after acceptance of the last vehicle. The DMO shall have the right to extend the duration of the maintenance for a maximum of two periods of five years.
In relation to the execution of maintenance on the vehicles 12kN, the DMO strives to cover maintenance in the NL within a 40 km radius (road distance) of Havelte, Stroe, Doorn/Vlissingen, Schaarsbergen, Oirschot, Gilze-Rijen, Maaldrift, Schaarsbergen, Eindhoven and Volkel. It is of critical importance that within close range the NL MoD always has supplier maintenance capacity at its disposal and that the future supplier is familiar with the Dutch regulations to carry out maintenance.
The future supplier shall deliver the RCWS with logistic support and be fully responsible for successful integration of the RCWS on the Hardtop, MP/AFSV and other vehicle type(s) of the NL MoD.
The DMO intends to publish the European procurement notice for this Project in the fourth quarter of this year. Only after the said notice, candidates can apply for participation in this European procurement.