Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2019-04-26
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Ships, Other
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 34510000 | 35500000: Warships and associated parts | 42410000 | 50240000 | 50246000
Estimated value: 732000000 GBP

Technical requirements: The supplier is required to provide hard facilities management services and alongside services for naval vessels at Portsmouth Naval Base for the Royal Navy.
The scope of this contract comprises of the following services to the Royal Navy: infrastructure and estates services – strategic estates management; repair and maintenance of infrastructure; utilities management (including building and vessel utilities); design and build new infrastructure; underwater services; estates information knowledge management/technology information centre;berthing services – lifting service; rigging; berthing and unberthing of vessels alongside.
The supplier will provide hard facilities management services to meet the requirements of the Authority at Portsmouth Naval Base.
The Future Maritime Support Programme (FMSP), part of DE&S, is competing the provision of hard facilities management and alongside services at Portsmouth Naval Base within Defence Contracts Online only.
This contract is considered to be exempt from the Treaty of the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) under Article 346(1)(a). The economic operator to be awarded the contract may be required to handle and protect UK Eyes Only (UKEO) National Caveated information or assets and they must not permit anyone who is not a UK National to access such information or assets. Information identified as UKEO must not be sent to foreign governments, overseas contractors, international organisations or released to any foreign nationals (either overseas or in the UK) without the originator‘s specific consent. Due to this requirement, the Authority is proceeding with the procurement process in reliance on the exemption in Article 346(1)(a) TFEU and the general exclusion from the Defence and Security Public Contract Regulations 2011 (DSPCR) under Regulation 7(1)(a).
In addition, it is considered that Article 346(1)(b) also applies to this procurement as it is in support of war material including warships, submarines and other Royal Navy support vessels as set out in the official translation of Council Decision 255/58.
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-2019423-DCB-14827555.


Winner: Future Maritime Support Programme
Award value: 732000000