Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-07-15
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Land Equipment, Other
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 35420000: Parts of military vehicles
Estimated value:  GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-08-10
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: Parts of military vehicles. Vehicle Support Team (VST) team, herein referred to as the authority, has a requirement to enable procurement of a range of Capital Spares for the Foxhound fleet.
There are 8 Foxhound items included within scope of the contract (listed below), defined by NSNs and Manufacturer’s Part Numbers (MPN) and supplemented with packaging and hazardous material codes.
If successful in their bid, successful tenderers shall be responsible for sourcing and delivering the required quantities of items, conforming to their NATO specifications, to the Authority.
Expressions of interest to participate in this requirement are to be submitted on the DCO by completing the DPQQ.
Vehicle Support Team (VST) team, herein referred to as the authority, has a requirement to enable procurement of a range of Capital Spares for the Foxhound fleet.
There are 8 Foxhound items included within scope of the contract (listed below), defined by NSNs and Manufacturer’s Part Numbers (MPN) and supplemented with packaging and hazardous material codes.
If successful in their bid, successful tenderers shall be responsible for sourcing and delivering the required quantities of items, conforming to their NATO specifications, to the Authority.
Expressions of Interest to participate in this requirement are to be submitted on the DCO by completing the DPQQ.
The authority reserves the right to ask for an indemnity, guarantee or bank bond if the potential provider does not meet the required standard.
If a group of economic operators submits a bid, the group must nominate a lead organisation to deal with the authority. The authority would require the group to form a legal entity before entering into the contract.
Information to be released with the ITT could be classified as Official Sensitive and Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance would be required for access to this documentation. Therefore, potential providers that do not hold the required security clearance at DPQQ stage must provide evidence that relevant personnel will have clearance by 1 August 2020 to allow the authority to release to them any sensitively marked supporting material. Facility Security Clearance (if needed) for the successful tenderer must be in place by the proposed contract award date of 16 October 2020 and maintained throughout the life of the contract. The contract will be subject to a Security Aspects Letter (SAL).
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.

Eligibility requirements: (a) appropriate statements from the economic operator's bankers or where appropriate, evidence of relevant professional risk indemnity insurance; (b) the presentation of balance-sheets or extracts from the balance-sheets, where publication of the balance-sheet is required under the law of the country in which the economic operator is established; (c) where appropriate, a statement, covering the 3 previous financial years of the economic operator, of: (i) the overall turnover of the business of the economic operator; and (ii) where appropriate, the turnover in respect of the work, works, goods or services which are of a similar type to the subject matter of the contract. The information required is outlined within the pre-qualification questionnaire.
The information required is outlined within the pre-qualification questionnaire.