Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2020-09-01
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Defence Digital, Strategic Command, Hardware and Services Commercial Sourcing Team
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 72000000
Estimated value: 1474645.79 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
A 3 years contract for the NSoIT(D) rollout of Legacy Blue Sustain (LBS) Op Net Blue node automation Phase 3.
Defence digital, strategic command, hardware and services commercial sourcing team which is part of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (UK MOD) is intending to place a Contract with Antillion Ltd (Antillion) for the phase 3 automation of the UK MOD’s Legacy Blue Sustain (LBS) Op Net Blue node system. The estimated total value of the procurement is GBP 1 474 645 ex-VAT, with a contract duration of 3 years.
It is considered that this requirement can be placed using the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice pursuant to Articles 28(1)(e) of Directive 2009/81/EC (Regulation 16(1)(a)(ii) of the Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011) for technical reasons. The information and data to the architecture, design, configuration and hardware of the LBS automation solution (Lightweight Orchestration Environment (LOEN)) in which the Op Net Blue nodes reside, are all proprietary items owned by Antillion. The relevant technical information including source codes are not available to the Authority and therefore cannot be provided to a third party. Neither has Antillion licensed out any of the necessary data to any third party. Antillion are the only economic entity that have the technical know-how and experience required to carry out the service and who can provide assurance to deliver a fully end-to-end automation solution that meets the operation readiness requirement. Provision of the services by a third party if this were possible would present significant and unacceptable risk to the Authority in relation to compatibility and interoperability of the existing software and hardware from Antillion and to the technical and safety certification of the system. No third party would be able to provide the required assurance to the reasonable satisfaction of the Authority.
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-2020827-DCB-16997507


Winner: Antillion Ltd
Award value: 1474645.79