Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2017-12-22
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Ships, Queen Elizabeth Class
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 35520000: Parts for warships
Estimated value:  GBP

Technical requirements: Parts for warships. SHIPACQ129 - Initial insurance spares for QEC aircraft carriers - Gas turbine alternator, propulsion motor and HV harmonic filter.
Ship Acquisition, which is part of the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD), proposes to place a contract with GE Energy Power Conversion Limited (Company Registration Number 5571739) ("The Company") for the provision of spare components for the gas turbine alternator and HV Propulsion System, which have been manufactured and installed by the Company on the Queen Elizabeth Class (QEC) Aircraft Carriers (the "Contract").
The Contract covers the supply of components for the Gas Turbine Alternator and High Voltage (HV) Distribution System (The "Systems") comprising the following: gas turbine alternator rotor, stator and exciter, propulsion motor stator, and harmonic filter reactors and resistors (the "Goods"). The contract has an estimated value of £4 900 000 (four million, nine hundred thousand pounds) and a duration of 18 months.
It is considered that this contract can be placed using the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice pursuant to Article 28 (3)(a) of Directive 2009/81/EC (Regulation 16(1)(b)(i) if the Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011). This is because to procure the Goods from a different manufacturer other than the company would oblige the MOD to acquire goods having different technical characteristics, which would result in the incompatibility between the systems and the goods so acquired and disproportionate technical difficulties in operating and maintaining the systems.
It is also considered that this contract can 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 Defence and Security Public contract Regulations 2011) for technical reasons. this is because the company is the only economic operator with the necessary know-how, proprietary processes, and equipment-specific tooling and test equipment to supply the goods to ensure the functionality of the systems.
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-20171220-DCB-11603061.