Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-11-28
Buyer: Project Selborne — To Provide a Training Service for Royal Navy and Royal Marines
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive dialogue
CPV classification: 34152000 | 71540000: Construction management services | 79993000 | 80000000 | 80500000
Estimated value:  GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-01-25
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Education and training services. Training simulators. Training services. Training programme services. Vocational training services. Technical training services. Management training services. Personal development training services. Training services in defence and security materials. Training and simulation in security equipment. Training and simulation in military electronic systems. Construction management services. Relocation services. Building and facilities management services. Project Selborne’s will contract for the delivery of Naval Service Training, some of which is already outsourced, across UK establishments, modernising the approach to training design, delivery and encouraging innovative solutions. This aligns with the Maritime Training Strategy (MTS) to provide relevant, innovative and modern training, underpinned by collaborative working which delivers the human component of Maritime Force Elements at Readiness to enable Operational success. Collaborative working between the Contractor and the Authority is an essential enabler to achieve the intended outcomes. Selborne’s focus is to prioritise quality and improvement of RN individual training outcomes through modernisation. In addition to the provision of training, the Contractor will be responsible for: (i) designing, procuring and managing the supply of, and the maintenance and repair of all associated training equipment; (ii) delivering/managing and procuring the interior design and fit out of a new Authority premises which has been built to house the provision of training services and, upon completion, delivering/managing the relocation of training activities from an existing site to the new premises.
The Training Service to be delivered by the Contractor under this Contract represents the convergence of multiple legacy contracts, primarily FOAP(T), into a single arrangement for the integrated delivery of an end-to-end service for the training of Naval Service Personnel. These legacy contracts and activities vary and will be incrementally included into Selborne over the Contract Term. The Authority may incorporate all or part of the legacy contracts and/or in-house service provision.
The Authority intends to bring the legacy contracts and in-house service provision together into a single Contract to enable the Authority to transfer the management of such training services to a single Contractor and for the Contractor to improve Value for Money for the Authority, by exploiting commonality, coherence and synergies between training services to improve the quality and efficiency of service provision, and by giving the Contractor more scope to identify and implement opportunities for improvements and modernisation across wider Maritime Training.
The Contractor will also manage military assets, equipment, documentation, that will be supplied as Government Furnished Assets (GFA) and manage a cadre of Naval Service instructors as Government Furnished Resource (GFR).
Move of the Submarine Training in HMS Raleigh to HMNB Clyde to form the Future Submarine School (FSS) relocating, modernising supporting the resulting training and equipment delivery and support in the new facility.
Provision of Training at Defence School of Marine Engineering (DSMarE) and the Royal Navy Aircraft Engineering and Survival School (RNAESS), currently located at HMS Sultan and the provision of planning and project management services to enable a relocation of RN training to support the Better Defence Estates Strategy outcomes.
These additional services may be added to the Selborne contract at the sole discretion of the Authority. The Authority reserves the right to contract for all or part of the additional services and/or legacy incoming contracts.
Further details on these contracts will be provided to successful candidates who are invited to participate in Dialogue.
Parent Company guarantee or a Bank Bond may be required prior to Contract Award. Further information will be included in the ITPD.
The Contract will be subject to the current Contract, Purchasing and Finance (CP&F) System. Payment terms and conditions will be included in the ITPD.
The Authority will consider all forms/structures of groups of economic operators provided that sufficient comfort and assurance is provided in relation to financial risks.
The Security Aspects Letter will be incorporated into the contract. The Authority reserves the right to amend any condition related to security of information to reflect any changes in national law or government policy whether in respect of the applicable protective marking scheme, specific protective marking given, the aspects to which any protective marking applies or otherwise.
Transfer of Undertaking (Protection of Employment) (TUPE) will apply, both from Contractor to Contractor and Civil Servants to Contractor. The Contractor will be required to provide relevant pension arrangements and execute associated contractual documentation.
The Contractor will be required to execute contractual documentation regarding its occupational rights of relevant Authority premises.
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.

Eligibility requirements: The Authority will apply DSPCR2011 Part 4, Selection of Economic Operators - Regulations 24, Information as to economic and financial standing.
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. Where appropriate, a statement, covering the three 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 Authority will apply DSPCR2011 Part 4, Selection of Economic Operators - Regulation 23, Criteria for the rejection of economic operators; Regulation 24, information as to economic and financial standing and Regulation 25, Information as to technical and professional ability. Further information will be included in the ITPD.
The Authority will apply DSPCR2011 Part 4, Selection of Economic Operators - Regulation 23, Criteria for the rejection of economic operators; Regulation 24, information as to economic and financial standing and Regulation 25, Information as to technical and professional ability.
Further information will be included in the ITPD.
The Authority will apply DSPCR2011 Part 4 Selection of Economic Operators, Information as to technical and professional ability - Regulation 25.