Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2019-11-19
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Land Equipment, Vehicle Support Team
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 35410000: Armoured military vehicles
Estimated value: 3000000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The vehicle support team (VST) — part of the Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) organisation within the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) intends to place a contract with Hobson Industries Ltd for the supply of Land Rover Spares for a period of 9 months with an estimated maximum value of 3 000 000 GBP. This is necessary to ensure the continued support and availability of the platform for the UK Armed Forces whilst a long term support solution is developed.
The vehicle support team (VST) — part of the Defence, Equipment and Support (DE&S) organisation within the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) — intends to place a contract with Hobson Industries Ltd for the supply of Land Rover spares for a period of nine (9) months with an estimated maximum value of 3 000 000 GBP. This is necessary to ensure the continued support and availability of the platform for the UK Armed Forces whilst a long-term support solution is developed. It is considered that this contract can be awarded 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 Contract Regulations 2011 for technical reasons, and Regulation 16(1)(a)(iv) for reasons of extreme urgency brought about by events unforeseeable by, and not attributable to, the contracting authority).
Due to the limitations of the character limit at II 2.4) Description — it is not possible to enter the full details of the single source justification, for full details of the reasoning, please email DESLEVS-SMF-Comrcl@mod.gov.uk so that it can be forwarded to you.
It is considered that this contract can be awarded 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 Contract Regulations 2011 for Technical Reasons and Regulation 16(1)(a)iv) for reasons of extreme urgency brought about by events unforeseeable by, and not attributable, the contracting authority).
Any values stated in this notice are provisional and a contract has yet to be awarded. 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. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-security-classifications
Advertising Regime OJEU:- This contract opportunity is published in the OJEU,the MoD Defence Contracts Bulletin and www.contracts.mod.uk GO Reference: GO-20191115-DCB-15567234


Winner: Hobson Industries Ltd
Award value: 3000000