Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2019-01-14
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Air Support, Flight Simulation and Synthetic Trainers Project Team (FSAST PT)
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 80650000
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Formare profesională şi simulare în domeniul aeronavelor militare, al proiectilelor şi al navelor spaţiale
Extension to contract for 1 year of the distributed synthetic air and land training contract based at RAF Waddington.
The Flight Simulators and Synthetic Trainers Project Team, part of the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD), intends to place an Amendment to the Distributed Synthetic Air Land Training (DSALT2) Contract to provide a 1-year extension to the Contract with QinetiQ Ltd (the services provider). It is anticipated that enhancement packages of work will be included, subject to contract amendment. It is considered that this amendment can be undertaken without the prior publication of a Contract Notice and placed with the services provider pursuant to Articles 28(1)(e) and 28(4)(a) of Directive 2009/81/EC (Regulations 16(1)(a)(ii) and 16(1)(d)(i) respectively of the Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011 for the following reasons:
(a) MOD cannot contract with any other economic operator other than the services provider due to the necessity to use specific expertise, know-how, technical data and specifically software within the DSALT facility to which QinetiQ hold Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in particular in the relevant source codes. This software is not licenced to allow third party use and the MOD does not hold the necessary rights to provide access to third parties;
(b) the authority is in the process of securing a future requirement to be known as the Defence Operating Training Capability (Air) (DOTC(A)) Defence Core Systems and Services (DCS&S) to be delivered following a competition. DCS&S, amongst other additional capabilities, is intended to wholly replace the current DSALT provision upon expiry of the proposed extension referred to above. The unintended capability gap is as a result of unforeseen circumstance at the time that the DSALT Contract was placed. It is, therefore considered by the Authority that the extension to contract is a reasonable short-term measure which will allow the legacy DSALT system to address the training gap until implementation of DCS&S.
The authority expects to enter into an agreement for the Amendment on 29.3.2019, the start date for the extension will commence on the 1.10.2019 until 30.9.2020.
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-201919-DCB-13846961


Winner: QinetiQ