Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2018-01-26
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, DSG, Armoured Vehicles Programmes — Artillery Systems Programme
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 50116400
Estimated value: 3500000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Babcock DSG Ltd acting as the authority's agent, intend to negotiate a single source enabling contract with Caterpillar Shrewsbury Ltd for the repair of a quantity not to exceed 100 (one hundred) X200 transmissions fitted to the Bulldog Armoured Vehicle Fighting Vehicle Platform.
Babcock DSG Ltd acting as the authority’s agent intend to negotiate a single source contract with Caterpillar Shrewsbury Ltd for the repair of a quantity (not to exceed 100) of the X200 transmissions fitted to the Bulldog Armoured Fighting Vehicle Platform.
The estimated quantity within this proposed contract is for a quantity not to exceed 100 of the X200 transmissions. There are no lots or option years included.
Babcock DSG Ltd acting as the authority’s agent intend to negotiate a single source contract with Caterpillar Shrewsbury Ltd for the repair of up to a qty of 100 of the X200 transmissions fitted to Bulldog Armoured Fighting Vehicle Platform.
It is considered that this contract can be placed using the negotiated procedure without prior publication pursuant to Article 28(1)(e) of the Directive 2009/81/EC(Regulation 16(1)(a)(ii) of the UK Defence and Security Public Contract Regulations 2011) for technical reasons.
Allison Transmissions are the OEM, all drawings and specifications of the X200 were developed with internal funding and are proprietary to them, and are a highly specialised type of transmission modified to fit the specific application. This requirement is for the repair and reconditioning of the X200.
Without the detailed technical information referenced above a supplier would not be able to ensure repaired and reconditioned X200’s were fit for purpose in accordance with the original design specifications, or maintain configuration control such as build standards, drawing and test specifications. The X200 is part of the safety critical part of the Bulldog powertrain and is therefore essential to the safe operation of the Bulldog platforms and maintaining the status of the safety case at ALARP.
Caterpillar Shrewsbury Ltd is the only agent in the UK that Allison licence to carry out work on their range of defence products and as a consequence Caterpillar Shrewsbury Ltd is the only supplier with access to the design information and technical details, data and knowledge necessary to fulfil the requirement. The design information and technical details, data and knowledge are not available to any other supplier.
This notice advises that the UK Ministry of Defence has placed a single source non-qualifying contract with the named supplier to satisfy repairs to critical assets whilst an enduring solution is progressed.
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.
Advertising Regime OJEU: 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-2018124-DCB-11783151.


Winner: Caterpillar Shrewsbury Ltd
Award value: 3500000
Number of bids: 1