Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2018-02-09
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, ISTAR, Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Delivery Team (CBRN DT)
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 35113200
Estimated value: 3750000 GBP

Technical requirements: The Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S), Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Delivery Team (CBRN DT), which is part of the UK Ministry of Defence (the MOD) intends to proceed with a single source procurement for the Subscription, Update, Support and Training for the Biological, Radiological and Chemical Information System (BRACIS) Warning and Reporting (W&R) Application. BRACIS is the MODs in service warning and reporting software; which must be compliant with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Doctrine and Policy; and be interoperable with our NATO partners.
The term of the contract will be 3 years with options for 2 further years. The total cost of the contract will be circa. GBP 3 750 000. The Update, Subscription, Support and Training is required to:
— Update and maintain the alignment of the BRACIS application with the prevailing NATO doctrine; Allied Technical Publication (ATP) 45, Allied Equipment Publications (AEP) 45 and Emergency Response Guide (ERG) Data;
— Supply technical software support to the BRACIS application on the stand alone and tactical platforms,
The Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S), Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Delivery Team (CBRN DT), which is part of the UK Ministry of Defence (the MOD) intends to proceed with a single source procurement for the Subscription, Update, Support and Training for the Biological, Radiological and Chemical Information System (BRACIS) Warning and Reporting (W&R) Application. BRACIS is the MODs in service warning and reporting software; which must be compliant with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Doctrine and Policy; and be interoperable with our NATO partners.
The term of the contract will be three years with options for 2 further years. The total cost of the contract will be circa. GBP 3 750 000. The Update, Subscription, Support and Training is required to:
— Update and maintain the alignment of the BRACIS application with the prevailing NATO doctrine; Allied Technical Publication (ATP) 45, Allied Equipment Publications (AEP) 45 and Emergency Response Guide (ERG) Data,
— Supply technical software support to the BRACIS application on the stand alone and tactical platforms,
DE&S intend to award the contract using the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice; in accordance with Article 28 (1)(e) of Directive 2009/81/EC (DPSCR 2011 regulation 16(1)(a)(ii)) to the proprietary software owners Bruhn NewTech (BNT). BNT are the only commercial organisation that have the technical expertise in NATO doctrine to update BRACIS and fulfil the obligations of the contract within the mandated timescales,
— BRACIS has not been updated since 2012. BNT are subject matter experts (SME) in the field of CBRN W&R; this area of technical expertise is recognised by NATO. BNT are the only commercial organisation invited by NATO as SME consultants to the NATO Doctrine Steering Groups; BNT provide up-to-date technical information to these groups to develop CBRN W&R doctrine and policies,
— BNT have developed the software incrementally over 20 years. The software is based on the development of AEP-45, their technical expertise in the NATO CBRN W&R doctrine and policies allows BNT to correct and modify the software to account for errors in the original doctrine. These bespoke improvements are not captured in the doctrine; therefore, only BNT can provide the in house technical support to support BRACIS.
This notice is not a request for expression of interest so please do not apply to be invited to tender. This notice advises that the Authority has decided to negotiate a contract with the named supplier on a single source basis, and is published for reasons of transparency. If you are interested in becoming a subcontractor for this requirement, you should apply directly to the supplier named within this notice.
The Authority reserves the right to amend any condition related to security of information to reflect any changes in national law or government policy. If any contract documents are accompanied by instructions on safeguarding classified information (e.g. a Security Aspects Letter), the Authority reserves the right to amend the terms of these instructions to reflect any changes in national law or government policy, whether in respect of the applicable protective marking scheme, specific protective markings given, the aspects to which any protective marking applies, or otherwise. The link below to the Gov.uk website provides information on the Government Security Classification.
Advertising Regime OJEU: This contract opportunity is published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU), the MoD Defence Contracts Bulletin and www.contracts.mod.uk GO Reference: GO-201827-DCB-11861303.


Winner: Bruhn NewTech Limited
Award value: 3750000