Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-04-30
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, C&C, C&C
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 72225000: Systems quality assurance services
Estimated value:  GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-06-03
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Specialist Support for Joint Helicopter Command (JHC) Continuing Airworthiness Management Organisations (CAMOs)
System quality assurance assessment and review services. Joint Helicopter Command has a requirement for Specialist Support Services for multiple Military Continuing Airworthiness Management Organisations (Mil CAMOs), to remain compliant with the Military Aviation Authority (MAA) regulations. There are 6 Mil CAMOs to be maintained in accordance with the Regulatory Article (RA) 4900 Series, by Suitably Qualified and Experienced Personnel (SQEP). The CAMOs are based at multiple locations nationally and internationally and have some platform specific tasks.
1 CAMO requires Deputy Continuing Airworthiness Manager (DCAM) support with the others requiring Quality Manager (QM) support.
Contractors for DCAM support should understand the requirements outlined in RA 4945(1) “Personnel Requirements — MRP Part M Sub Part G”, noting the Acceptable Means of Compliance listed at Para 1. They should also hold at least, or equivalent:
(c) Ability to comply with a Competency Framework of a platform specific Continuing Airworthiness Management Exposition (CAME).
Contractors for QM support should understand the requirements outlined in RA 4951 “Quality System — MRP Part M Sub part G” and should hold at least, or equivalent:
It is anticipated that the contract will be in place with effect 29.9.2019 for a 3-year period plus an option for a further 1 plus 1 year.
A Cyber Risk Assessment has been carried out for this requirement. The risk has been assessed as LOW, Reference No: RAR-4M8ZQ6NX. Please respond to the Risk Assessment and demonstrate compliance and include within your tender, further information can be located here:
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The requirement is to provide a specialist support contract in the form of Quality Manager support and Deputy Continuing Airworthiness Manager support to deliver for 3 years plus 1 plus 1 option years, key outputs that would satisfy the RA4900 Series over multiple JHC CAMOs, various locations nationally and internationally, some platform specific tasks.
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

Eligibility requirements: A minimum of 2 years most recent Audited Accounts required.
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