Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-05-04
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, C&C, Other
Country: UK
Region: Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 50211000: Repair and maintenance services of aircraft
Estimated value: 1700000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-06-03
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Repair and maintenance services of aircraft. The Authority has a requirement for the supply of logistic and maintenance support to the Chinook Aircraft. The support will be predominantly required at RAF Odiham, potentially RAF Benson and possibly other MOD sites as required.
Expressions of Interest to participate in this requirement are to be submitted on the DCO by completing the Pre-Qualification Notice (PQQ). Details of how to access the PQQ can be found under ‘Advertising Regime DCB’. Interested parties are required to complete the PQQ to provide information that allows the Authority to evaluate potential suppliers' capacities and capabilities. Evaluation criteria can be found at Section III.2 ‘Conditions for Participation’.
The draft Invitation to Tender (ITT) documents have been made available within the Supporting Documents section of this Notice. Note that the ITT documents are for information purpose only at this stage and for the avoidance of doubt, not for completion. They may be subject to change prior to formal issue and only those companies successful in the PQQ will be formally invited to tender at a later date.
The contractor will be expected to provide resources to deliver an estimated 118 000 man hours per annum; actual man hours required may increase or decrease on demand.
The aircraft engineering support will conduct the preparation and recovery of Chinook Aircraft prior to and following deployments, scheduled and unscheduled maintenance, fault rectification and some modification embodiment. Further support will be required to fulfil tasks in the Station Armoury Section, Survival Equipment and Ground Support Equipment Sections and the Logistic Supply Squadron as required.
The Contractor should be prepared to provide suitably experienced individuals to act in a limited supervisory capacity.
The Contractor will be required to provide all of their personnel with appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
Personnel may be required to undertake shift work patterns at relatively short notice. All tasks are required to be carried out in accordance with Military Air Regulations, aircraft documentation, risk assessments and Health & Safety Regulations, with flight safety paramount at all times.
In addition to the two year contract period, the Authority may, at its sole discretion, utilise an option period to extend by up to a further 12 months. Exercisable at up to 24 months from the award of the contract.
Specific conditions will be set out in the Invitation to Tender. Payment will be by the MOD's e-procurement system.
If a group of economic operators submits a bid, the group must nominate a lead organisation to deal with the Authority. The Authority shall require the group to form a legal entity before entering into the contract.
The Authority will apply all the offences listed in Article 39(1) of Directive 2009/81/EC (implemented as Regulation 23(1) of the Defence and Security Public Contract Regulations (DSPCR) 2011 in the UK) and all of the professional misconducts listed at Article 39(2) of Directive 2009/81/EC (see also Regulation 23(2) in the DSPCR 2011) to the decision of whether a Candidate is eligible to be invited to tender.
A full list of the Regulation 23(1) and 23(2) criteria are at http://www.contracts.mod.uk/delta/project/reasonsForExclusion.html#dspr
Candidates will be required to sign a declaration confirming whether they do or do not have any of the listed criteria as part of the pre-qualification process.
Candidates who have been convicted of any of the offences under Article 39(1) are ineligible and will not be selected to bid, unless there are overriding requirements in the general interest (including defence and security factors) for doing so.

Eligibility requirements: Requirements are set out in Part 1 of the Pre Qualification Questionnaire.
A financial assessment will be undertaken on the supplier's financial status. An overall pass / fail judgement will be made after considering areas such as turnover, profit, net assets, liquidity, gearing and capacity. This assessment will include the Parent company where applicable. An independent financial assessment obtained from a reputable credit rating organisation will be utilised as part of this process.”.
Technical capability selection criteria are set out in Part 2 of the Pre Qualification Questionnaire.