Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2020-07-07
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Helicopters, Apache Project Team
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 35730000: Electronic warfare systems
Estimated value: 3200000 GBP

Technical requirements: This contract will be let through the use of negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice (the term used in the Defence and Security Public Contract Regulations (DSPCR) 2011 for single source contracts). It will provide integration tasks and the continued modification of the existing Helicopter Integrated Defensive Aids System (HIDAS). This will enable delivery of an integrated Defensive Aids System (DAS) which is a critical sub-system on an Apache AH-64E.
The Apache Project Team, part of the UK Ministry of Defence, intends to award a framework agreement to Leonardo MW Ltd for the design, qualification, integration and delivery of an integrated Defensive Aid System (‘DAS’), which is a critical sub-system on the Apache helicopter. The duration of the contract will be two years commencing in July 2020.
The contract value is anticipated to be GBP 3.2 million. This is a correction to the value which was previously outlined in VEAT notice 2019/S 144-355872 as being GBP 1 million.
It is considered that a contract may be placed using the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice pursuant to Article 28(1)(e) of Directive 2009/81/EC (Regulation 16(1)(a)(ii) of the UK Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011) because competition is absent for technical reasons. This is because in order to fulfil this requirement the contract will involve the integration of existing Helicopter Integrated Defensive Aids System (‘HIDAS’) items and Leonardo MW Ltd are the Design Organisation (‘DO’) for these subsystems. They hold specific technical know-how as well as owning all the supporting technical information including software, interface control documents, drawings and designs and test schemes which prevents any other supplier from carrying out the required support. Therefore, it is considered that only Leonardo MW Ltd can provide the service(s) required.
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-202073-DCB-16794045


Winner: Leonardo MW Ltd
Award value: 3200000