Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2018-04-27
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Air Support, Air Commodities Project Team (AC PT)
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 34223300 | 34741000
Estimated value: 1560000 GBP

Technical requirements: The requirement is to sustain/maintain serviceability of 41 Atlas Aircraft Loaders and 17 Dis/DDIS Trailers over a 20 months period commencing at the earliest date possible. This should also include the technical support to units including update of publications, spares support, repairs and Post Design Services (PDS) activities.
The air commodities team, part of the UK Ministry of Defence (“the Authority”) intends to award a 2 years contract for technical support, spares, repairs, obsolescence rectification and post design services for the Atlas aircraft loader and Dolly Interface System (“DIS”) fleets to Aircraft Maintenance Support Services Ltd (“AMSS”). This is an interim solution to support the authority’s current equipment with AMSS. The proposed 2 years contract would ensure there is support for the Atlas aircraft loaders until their out of service date of December 2020.
AMSS is the original equipment manufacturer of the Atlas aircraft loader and holds exclusive intellectual property rights in respect of the majority of its components and software. No licences have been granted to the authority and it does not have the necessary intellectual property rights to carry out or compete this requirement. In the circumstances, for technical reasons, AMSS is the only company with the expertise and ability to fulfill the requirement. In particular, the provision of components by third parties would result in incompatibility and disproportionate technical difficulties for the authority.
It is considered that the 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 (Regulation 16(1)(a)(ii) of the defence and security public contracts Regulations 2011) for technical reasons, or for reasons connected with the protection of exclusive rights, the contract may be awarded only to a particular economic operator.
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.
— 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-2018425-DCB-12301783


Winner: Aircraft Maintenance Support Services
Award value: 1560000