Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-07-21
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Air Support, Flight Simulation and Synthetic Trainers Project Team (FSAST PT)
Country: UK
Region: Bristol, City of
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Competitive dialogue
CPV classification: 80650000
Estimated value: 855500 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-08-17
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: ESF

Technical requirements: Provision of e-Learning training media, courseware, 2D/3D models and animations, instructor presentation material and interactive pages.
Training and simulation in aircraft, missiles and spacecraft. The authority has a requirement to provide e-Learning training media to establishments within United Kingdom Air Command. The output will comprise of courseware (single or dual screen), 2D/3D models or animations and interactive pages. All output must be coded in HTML5 and be conformant with Moodle 2.6 (or above) as well as SCORM compliant (if required). Output shall be delivered on CD or directly onto the Defence Learning Environment (DLE) or user Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) platform.
The authority requires output that is designed for a specific solution on an ad hoc basis; the contract shall be initiated by the user contacting the FSAST PM directly with their specific requirement.
It should be noted that all Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) of the output will be owned solely by the MOD upon successful delivery.
The proposed Enabling Contract will be for an initial period of 3 years commencing 1.4.2017, with the option to extend for a further period of 3 x 12 month options, up to 31.3.2023.
No business whatsoever is guaranteed under any resulting framework agreement or contract indeed there is no guarantee that any framework agreement or contract will be put in place in relation to this notice. No compensation, etc. will be paid if a tender or resulting framework agreement is withdrawn for any reason. Bidders should take part in this process only on the basis that they fully understand and accept this position.
Any resulting contract from this tender exercise shall be paid via the P2P system or the latest IT enabled payment system in place at that time (CP&F).
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 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 a Security Aspects Letter, the Authority reserves the right to amend the terms of the Security Aspects Letter 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 Authority will apply all the offences listed in Article 39 (1) of Directive 2009/81/EC of the European Parliament and the Council (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 of the European Parliament and the Council (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.
Candidates who are guilty of any of the offences, circumstances or misconduct under Article 39 (2) may be excluded from being selected to bid at the discretion of the Authority.
The Authority will apply all the offences listed in Article 39 (1) of Directive 2009/81/EC of the European Parliament and the Council (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 of the European Parliament and the Council (see also Regulation 23(2) in the DSPCR 2011) to the decision of whether a Candidate is eligible to be invited to tender.

Eligibility requirements: (b) The presentation of balance-sheets or extracts from the balance-sheets, where publication of the balance-sheet is required under the law of the country in which the economic operator is established; (c) Where appropriate, a statement, covering the 3 previous financial years of the economic operator, of: (i) The overall turnover of the business of the economic operator; and (ii) Where appropriate, the turnover in respect of the work, works, goods or services which are of a similar type to the subject matter of the contract. A financial assessment will be undertaken on the suppliers financial status. An overall pass/fail judgement will be made after considering areas such as turnover, profit, net assets, liquidity, gearing and capacity. The assessment will include Parent company where applicable.
If the estimated contract value is greater than 40 % of the suppliers turnover, the Authority reserves the right to exclude the supplier from being selected to tender except where the supplier provides, to the satisfaction of the Authority, evidence showing it has sufficient economic and financial capability, this evidence may include: Additional information proving it has sufficient economic and financial resources to deliver the requirement and state whether the supplier is willing to provide the Authority with an indemnity, guarantee or bank bond.