Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-03-09
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, DSTL, Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL)
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 73400000 | 75220000: Civil defence services | 80600000
Estimated value:  GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-04-09
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Research and Development services on security and defence materials. Training services in defence and security materials. Defence services. The Ministry of Defence (MoD), via the Dstl Defence and Security Analysis (DSA) Division, is seeking to appoint a Prime Contractor to lead, manage and deliver research into human capabilities. The appointed Contractor will be responsible for delivering agile, and cutting-edge human, social and behavioural sciences research, building and maintaining a robust supplier network, with an emphasis on scientific excellence, innovation, and collaboration to exploit research, skills and capabilities. They will develop effective partnerships to deliver innovative and novel solutions to address current and future problems with responsibility for ensuring programme integration, coherence and exploitation.
In addition to Dstl and the Ministry of Defence (MOD), the framework will be available to the following government departments:
Department for education, department for international trade, department for transport, ministry of justice, home office, college of policing, department of work and pensions.
The selection criteria in the PQQ contains both pass /fail questions and scored questions. Should a potential provider record a fail against any of the pass /fail questions they will automatically be deemed non-compliant. The scored questions shall be weighted and evaluated against the scoring criteria as detailed in section 6 of the PQQ. The maximum number of potential providers that will be taken through to the ITT stage is six. In the event that there are more than 6 compliant potential providers the weighted scores shall be used to down select the 6 highest.
The information and /or documents for this opportunity are available on http://www.contracts.mod.uk You must register on this site to respond, if you are already registered you will not need to register again, simply use your existing username and password. Please note there is a password reminder link on the homepage. Suppliers must log in, go to your response manager and add the following access code: 4MCXR9KKFR.
1— manage the delivery of cutting edge, world-leading, innovative human capability research, to address both future focused, longer term requirements, and nearer term more applied requirements,
2— adopt processes /an approach that will enable agile, timely and flexible responses to human capability research needs across several technical disciplines. This is to include rapid response to emerging and urgent operational and surge requirements when required,
3— access and engage a diverse and vibrant external supplier network for human, social and behavioural sciences, nationally and internationally. Including refreshing, scaling, growing and reconfiguring the supply base throughout the contract lifespan as required. Provide information regarding the external human, social and behavioural sciences capability within industry and academia to support Dstl in its capability stewardship role,
4— enable a collaborative and inter- /multi-disciplinary approach to task delivery where appropriate and building links between industry, SMEs and academia and facilitating effective partnerships,
5— act proactively to identify and capitalise on connections /links across tasks in this contract and others, as appropriate, to support coherence.
6— provide a robust and proportionate technical and quality assurance mechanism as part of a wider assurance model. This should include the option to invite independent external review of S&T outputs where appropriate,
7— enable the inward and outward exchange /sharing of staff between Dstl and supplier organisations, including the ability to work as a combined team where required in order to a) build and sustain capability b) enable delivery of S&T tasks,
8— support suppliers to take part in international research collaboration as panel /group representatives and /or as part of a research activity, with MOD/Dstl agreement,
9— provide an open, transparent, fair and flexible mechanism for selecting the supplier(s) to deliver research,
10— maximise the accessibility, exploitation potential and impact of the S&T it delivers, including enabling S&T exploitation support activities,

Eligibility requirements: Please see PQQ and attached evaluation criteria.
Please see PQQ and attached evaluation criteria. Please see PQQ and attached evaluation criteria.