Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2020-02-06
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Ships, Other
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 31100000 | 31160000 | 34510000 | 34930000 | 35500000: Warships and associated parts
Estimated value: 1 GBP

Technical requirements: The UK Ministry of Defence (UK MOD) is issuing this prior information notice, without call for competition and without commitment, to invite companies to participate in the market engagement phase for the future of Marine Systems Support (MSS).
As part of the Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) organisation’s continuous improvement programme, the ships operating centre plans to fundamentally transform the business management arrangements in its Marine Systems Support (MSS) division. The MSS Future Strategy programme aims to go further than existing arrangements: it will cover an increased scope of work across substantial portions of the RN and RFA fleet, and the strategic goal is to deliver more agile, effective, and efficient in-service support to the Royal Navy. The objective is for every new MSS contract to facilitate the emergent needs of the Navy in the 21
The UK MOD invites all parties interested in attending this event to submit an expression of interest (EOI), confirming the names (3 Persons max) of those wishing to attend, by no later than noon on 7.2.2020.
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
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Award value: 1