Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-01-28
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, ISTAR, Joint Sensor and Engagement Networks Team (JSENS)
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Accelerated restricted procedure
CPV classification: 35125100: Sensors
Estimated value:  GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-02-04
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Sensors. The UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) has an urgent capability requirement (UCR) to provide counter-unmanned air system (C-UAS) radio frequency sensor equipment (C-UAS Land technology readiness level minimum 8), training and support, to the Royal Navy.
The C-UAS RF Sensor shall be able to detect and indicate a threat bearing for small-class 1 unmanned air-system’s (UAS’s) that are utilising common frequency bands.
The C-UAS RF Sensor equipment will be deployed on maritime platforms. It shall be stand-alone, requiring only a power supply as a dependency from the maritime platform on which it is installed. The C-UAS RF Sensor shall be ‘person’ portable (max 2 individuals), capable of being packaged onto NATO-standard pallets.
The system shall be capable of handling data, and operating within an environment, classified at a minimum of official sensitive
The contract shall cover an initial quantity of up to 11 C-UAS RF sensors and include the provision of 1 years in service support (and spares), to commence at the point of delivery and acceptance. An overall train the trainer package shall be included on the Contract, covering operation and maintenance etc of the system.
The contract shall also include Options for additional equipment and training, and for a further 3, 1-year support periods. The ITT process is likely to include a technology demonstration, hosted by the authority/user and supported by a third-party provider. This shall independently test and evaluate candidate systems against pre-defined criteria included within the evaluation documentation, the resulting data shall form part of the tender evaluation and down selection. The authority is progressing with the required permissions necessary for this demonstration, should any potential provider believe that additional permissions/clearances will be required for their systems, please notify the authority immediately for further guidance.
You must notify the authority immediately of any potential Conflict of Interest (CoI) that may arise in relation to this potential requirement.
The is a low-end Category D procurement, the values provided within this contract notice are an estimate for indicative purposes. It is currently unfunded and as such any effort expended in responding to this contract notice and DPQQ is at the companies own risk.
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.
In response to this contract notice, all those expressing an interest must complete a dynamic pre-qualification questionnaire (DPQQ) to ensure that only those with adequate economic and financial standing as well as the professional and technical knowledge are invited to tender. Respondees will be asked to demonstrate previous examples of expertise and delivery in operational environments. The access code for this DPQQ is contained within this contract notice.
The DPQQ assessment criteria and TRL definitions are provided as supporting information with the DPQQ. The DPQQ will be assessed using both pass/fail criteria and a weighted scoring scheme. Potential suppliers will be required to pass all mandatory Part 1 questions. Part 2 (project specific) questions specify individual threshold confidence criteria that must be met by the potential supplier to pass. A score of 5 (high confidence), 4 (good confidence), 2 (low confidence) or 0 (significant concerns) will be given for each question, against the scoring scheme provided. A number of Part 2 questions have also been given a weighting, outlining their importance to the authority in meeting this requirement.