Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2018-09-07
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Land Equipment, OSP Programme Management Office (PGMO)
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
CPV classification: 31100000 | 31120000

Technical requirements: The Ministry of Defence has a requirement for power generation, electrical power management systems, energy storage and electrical power distribution. The power generation (and supporting systems within this capability) need to be lightweight and compact to allow safe carriage by 1 to 4 persons to load and unload safely from vehicles. Power generation systems that can be safely towed by vehicles will also be considered as part of the capability. For a small percentage of the power generation capability, there may be an additional requirement for reducing thermal, acoustic and electromagnetic signatures. This new project titled Manoeuvre Power (Man-P) partly replaces Field Power, a former Defence project.
The purpose of this Prior Information Notice (PIN) is to invite industry to register its interest to participate in a Preliminary market engagement (PME) exercise in order to gauge market interest in fulfilling the requirement, assist in the development of acquisition options and support the development of procurement models. This is an information gathering exercise only, where interested parties are invited to respond to providing either part of, or the whole capability.
Please note that any potential equipment solutions will be expected to follow the open architecture approach under DEFSTAN 23-013, version 2, Generic Base Architecture (GBA).
(Further information on UK Defence Standardization can be found at https://www.gov.uk/guidance/uk-defence-standardization)
The aim of open architecture is to improve operational effectiveness, reduce integration risks and the cost of ownership by mandating and applying the appropriate interface standards and design constraints. A demonstration of open architecture for Deployable Infrastructure is taking place at the Defence Vehicle Dynamics 2018, Millbrook, Bedfordshire on 19 and 20.9.2018. There is a cost to attend the DVD (which will be borne by industry visitors) Interested parties are encouraged to attend this event to learn more about the open architecture approach, however, attendance is not compulsory to partake in any preliminary-market engagement for ‘Manoeuvre Power’.
The PME is expected to be conducted via a questionnaire that will be issued in due course. Industry should not expect to assign significant resource into the upcoming exercise and any responses should be based on solutions that are already in-service.
To express an interest in taking part in the PME, please send contact details (company, name, phone number, email address) to: DESLELCA-Comrcl-MANP@mod.gov.uk
If industry have any questions concerning this capability, please send them to the e-mail address above. Relevant questions asked at the DVD will be registered and logged during the event. Answers to questions, received via e-mail or asked at the DVD, may be issued to all parties who have registered an interest in partaking in the forthcoming PME.
All work completed in response to the PME is at industry’s own risk. The PME exercise will not represent a commitment by the Authority to launch any formal procurement procedure, nor does it indicate that the Authority has decided on its procurement options for this requirement. Furthermore, any participation in the PME exercise does not guarantee that you will be invited to participate in any future tender exercise; should the Authority run a competition for this requirement then participants will be selected via the normal routes (e.g. Pre-qualification Questionnaires).
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