Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-04-10
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, DE&S Mat Strat, Other
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Accelerated negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 79132000
Estimated value: 1 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-05-07
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Certification services. Suppliers must read through this set of instructions and follow the process to respond to this opportunity.
The information and/or documents for this opportunity are available on https://www.contracts.mod.uk/delta. You must register on this site to respond, if you are already registered you will not need to register again, simply use your existing username and password. Please note there is a password reminder link on the homepage.
Suppliers must log in, go to your Response Manager and add the following Access Code: Y6WXCQ7Z5D. Please ensure you follow any instruction provided to you here.
The deadline for submitting your response(s) is 7.5.2019 14:00. Please ensure that you allow yourself plenty of time when responding to this invite prior to the closing date and time, especially if you have been asked to upload documents.
If you experience any difficulties please refer to the online Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's) or the User Guides or contact the MOD DCO Helpdesk by emailing - support@contracts.mod.uk or call 0800 282 324.
Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) is a bespoke trading entity, and arm’s length body of the Ministry of Defence. DE&S Headquarters is in MoD Abbey Wood, Bristol, and there are staff situated across numerous sites across the UK. The DE&S Estate consists of 12 500 personnel, deployed on 74 approximately satellite sites around the UK. DE&S manage a vast range of complex projects, programmes and delivery activities to procure, support and supply vital equipment and services that the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force need to operate effectively. DE&S works closely with industry, including through partnering agreements and private finance initiatives.
The DE&S IT Security programme is a key pillar of the DE&S transformation activity, focused on ensuring the delivery of the processes and frameworks needed for DE&S to operate an industrialised IT Security and Accreditation service. The programme’s aim is to deliver an assured operational IT capability, to meet future demand and assure the security of DE&S information, the information entrusted to DE&S by the wider MoD and the supplier’s.
The DE&S IT Security programme is a key pillar of the DE&S transformation activity, focused on ensuring the delivery of the processes and frameworks needed for DE&S to operate an industrialised IT Security and Accreditation service. The programme’s aim is to deliver an assured operational IT capability, to meet future demand and assure the security of DE&S information, the information entrusted to DE&S by the wider MoD and the Supplier’s.
DE&S has now reached the final stage of the ISO 27001 Implementation Programme and is looking to appoint an ISO’s British Standard Institution (BSI) and UKAS accredited body to certify DE&S Corporate IT to ISO 27001:2013 standards by the end of October 2019 and maintain certification for 3 years. Parties interested in applying to become DE&S’s ISO27001 accreditation partner should be aware of the time-scales for achieving accreditation. Auditors/assessors must hold a valid, in-date, SC level Security Clearance or be willing to undertake such clearances.
The DCPP Cyber Risk assessment (reference RAR-XBX97A27) returned a low risk profile for this requirement. During the PQQ suppliers will need to complete a Cyber Risk Assessment via Octavian.
Payment will be via CP&F system. Potential provider should confirm they will accept payment in this way.
The authority will use the PQQ response to create a short list of tenders who are eligible to participate, fulfil any minimum economical, financial, professional and technical standards, and best meet in terms of capacity and capability against the selection criteria set out in the PQQ. Full details of the mention of choosing tenderers will be set out in the PQQ. It is the intention to down select between 2 and 5 highest scoring suppliers who will be invited to tender. As a minimum receive a pass in any pass/fail questions. If a supplier fails a pass/fail question then they will automatically fail the evaluation and will not be invited to participate any further. Suppliers must read through this set of instructions and follow the process to respond to this opportunity.
The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement.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-201945-DCB-14771361


Award value: 1