Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-08-21
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Land Equipment, Vehicle Support Team
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 35400000: Military vehicles and associated parts
Estimated value:  GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-09-17
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Military vehicles and associated parts. The requirement is for the manufacture of CR2 and CRARRV drivers audible warning boxes to the build standard in accordance with two technical drawings, FV2285918 and FV2285916, which will be provided at tender stage. This modification improves upon the current visual warning system by injecting an audible tone into the existing intercom system which will feed directly into the crew headsets.
This will improve the overall level of platform safety by alerting the crew to specific engine or transmission faults that currently trigger the central warning system visual alarm. This requirement is solely for manufacture and does not include any integration activities.
The authority reserves the right to ask for an Indemnity, guarantee or bank bond if the supplier does not meet the standard for economic and financial standing. A parent company guarantee may also be required dependent on the formation and financial standing of the contracting business.
The contract and services provided will be made against an agreed payment plan. Payments will follow successful delivery and acceptance of services. The end to end process for the aforementioned conditions shall be handled within the CP&F system (The DE&S procurement and payments software). Financing and payment conditions shall included in the ITN/ITT.
If a group of economic operators submits a bid, the group must nominate a lead organisation to deal with the authority. The authority reserves the right to ask for the group to form a wholly legal entity before entering into the contract.
The cyber security risk assessment has rated the risk for this requirement as very low. You can verify you are equipped to deal with Contracts of this risk level by completing the assurance questionnaire at hhtps://suppliercyberprotection.service.xgov.uk/ and using the following code: RAR-2J9F3C2X. At this stage no assessment or scoring will be applied to the suppliers cyber resilience.
All documents will be marked as ‘Official Sensitive’, therefore all contractors shall apply the requirements of HMG baseline personnel security standard (BPSS) for all individuals having access to Official-Sensitive information.
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
Candidates will be required to sign a declaration confirming whether they do or do not have any of the listed criteria as part of the pre-qualification process.
Candidates who have been convicted of any of the offences under Article 39(1) are ineligible and will not be selected to bid, unless there are overriding requirements in the general interest (including defence and security factors) for doing so.
Candidates who are guilty of any of the offences, circumstances or misconduct under Article 39(2) may be excluded from being selected to bid at the discretion of the authority.
(a) appropriate statements from the economic operator's bankers or where appropriate, evidence of relevant professional risk indemnity insurance;
(b) 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;
(c) where appropriate, a statement, covering the 3 previous financial years of the economic operator, of:

Eligibility requirements: (a) appropriate statements from the economic operator's bankers or where appropriate, evidence of relevant professional risk indemnity insurance; (b) 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; (c) where appropriate, a statement, covering the 3 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. These requirements will be evaluated in the DPQQ.
These requirements will be evaluated in the DPQQ.