Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-02-28
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Ships, Maritime Platform Systems (MPS)
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 31682210
Estimated value:  GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-04-02
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Post Design Support for LPD Platform Management System & Supply of Spares and Repairs for LPD & Astute PMS
Instrumentation and control equipment. Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) requires a new contract for the provision of spares and repairs for the Integrated Platform Management Systems (IPMS) fitted to the two (2) ALBION Class Landing Platform Docks (LPD) and three (3) ASTUTE Class Submarines (SSNs). Additionally, the team requires this new contract for the provision of Post Design Services (PDS) for the LPD IPMS system only.
The systems and equipment cover a range of human controls interface hardware, software and associated network facilities which are made up of several panels, sub-assemblies, equipments and components that have electrical and electronic functions. The components within the consoles, panels and the sub-assemblies include items such as uninterruptable power supplies, LCD display screen, keyboards and tracker balls, ICT components, Ethernet cabling, networking modems and switching, display units, meters and various electrical and electronic components.
This requirement will currently support two Inventory Management Codes (IMCs) covering circa 120 NATO Stock Numbers (NSNs) across the various platforms. Detail of these NSNs will be supplied as part of the Invitation to Negotiate (ITN) documentation. The NSNs will be designated into 3 categories to indicate the likelihood of the item being demanded for issue to RN platforms.
One framework agreement will be let for the requirement for a period of 5 years. The contractor will be responsible for supplying spare parts as demanded by the authority, as and when required, within agreed lead times, providing repairs to equipment’s at the contractors premises, responding to tasking requests for post design services and technical services.
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.
Other particular conditions to which the performance of the contract is subject, in particular with regard to security of supply and security of information: 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 (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.
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.
Suppliers must read through this set of instructions and follow the process to respond to this opportunity. The information and /or documents for this opportunity are available on www.contracts.mod.uk. You must register on this site to respond, if you are already registered you will not need to register again, simply use your existing username and password. Please note there is a password reminder link on the homepage.
Suppliers must log in, go to the response manager and add the following access code: 4VNSFP99T3. Please ensure you follow any instruction provided to you.
The deadline for submitting your response(s) is 2.4.2018 12:00. Please ensure that you allow yourself plenty of time when responding to this invite prior to the closing date and time, especially if you have been asked to upload documents.

Eligibility requirements: This information will be sought through a Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ).