Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2019-05-14
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Land Equipment, Dismounted Close Combat (DCC)
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 35300000: Weapons, ammunition and associated parts
Estimated value: 3500000 GBP
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: Dismounted Close Combat Team (DCC Soldier Training Special Programmes) and vehicle demonstration — manufacture team (Turret Systems) part of the UK Ministry of Defence (UK MOD) intends to award a contract to NSAF Ltd (Heckler and Koch UK and H&K Gmbh) for the provision of a 3-year support services contract for all in service H&K weapon systems and associated equipment’s including weapon mounts and ancillaries, special tools and test equipment.
Dismounted Close Combat Team (DCC Soldier Training Special Programmes) and vehicle demonstration and manufacture team (Turret Systems) part of the UK Ministry of Defence (UK MOD) intends to award a Contract to NSAF Ltd (Heckler and Koch UK and H&K Gmbh) for the provision of a 3-year support services contract for all in service H&K weapon systems and associated equipment’s including weapon mounts and ancillaries, special tools and test equipment.
It is considered that this contract can be placed using the negotiated procedure without prior publication pursuant to Article 28(1)(e) of Directive 2009/81 EC Regulation 16(1)(a)ii of the Defence Security Public Contract Regulations 2011. This is because NSAF Ltd who are the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) and the Design Authority (DA) for all current in-service equipment have the specific experience, technical data, tools and test equipment needed to fulfill the requirements; this involves new testing, new verification and validation thereby ensuring safe implementation and interoperability. Additionally, there would also be disproportionate cost, time and technical difficulties to the UK MOD associated with introducing new (non NSAF/H&K) items into the Authority's supply chain and inventory. This approach would cause unacceptable technical difficulties in the support, technical publication and documentation, training and logistics arising from having to manage a multi-fleet as well as safety and suitability of the fit, form and function of the items, from that already provided and in current service resulting in operational and safety difficulties as well as having a disproportionate impact on time and cost to UK MOD.
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-2019510-DCB-14877800


Winner: NSAF Ltd
Award value: 3500000
Number of bids: 1