Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2016-02-02
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Combat Air, Flight Simulation and Synthetic Trainers Project Team (FSAST PT)
Country: UK
Region: Oxfordshire
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 34741400
Estimated value: 8500000 
Award criteria: Technical, Interoperability, Schedule, Price
EU fund: ESF

Technical requirements: Technical
Interoperability
Schedule
Price
Medium Support Helicopter Aircrew Training Facility — upgrade of 2 Chinook Dynamic Mission Simulators to include Digital Automated Flight Control System.
Flight simulators. Upgrading 2 Chinook Dynamic Mission Simulators (DMS) in the Medium Support Helicopter Aircrew Training Facility to incorporate the Digital Automatic Flight Control System.
It is 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 UK Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011). The named supplier operates and owns the training facility under a PFI contract including ownership of the training assets requiring to be updated. Technical and interoperability reasons also apply as the upgraded equipment will have to interface with the training facilities and services which are provided by the named supplier under the PFI Contract and It is considered that the named supplier is the only company with the technical knowledge, tooling, test equipment documentation and technical competence to complete this requirement.
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