Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-02-24
Buyer: Warship Support
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 50241000 | 50640000 | 80500000
Estimated value: 10000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-03-28
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: ESF

Technical requirements: Repair and maintenance services of ships. The Authority has an ongoing requirement to conduct Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) in support of the Unit Maintenance Management System (UMMS) to both current and future Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary flotilla (and some shore-based establishments).
The RCM Team utilises the Aladon RCM II methodology which is described in greater detail in Defence Standard 00-45 (in conjunction with the RCM Technical Instructions).
The requirement is to deliver RCM derived maintenance and training to provide safe, defensible, auditable maintenance.
RCM Maritime Analyses (for new-to-service and existing equipment) Including Review of existing Analyses (iaw 5-year review programme). Management of RCM Analyses from creation to delivery to the front line, including RCM and UMMS support activities, such as the creation of Work Package specifications, UMMS database management and Work package reconciliations required to deliver safe defensible maintenance to the Front Line. Also required will be a physical presence of a RCM Industry Support Team, supplied by the successful bidder, necessary to support the RCM team in the provision of safe defensible maintenance to the Fleet.
Interested providers are to note that some of the requirements within this Lot are currently delivered by industry.
Provision of RCM specialist industry support to undertake Maritime centric RCM studies, review existing RCM studies and provide MMSG Floor plate support for implementing maintenance changes in Web Unit Maintenance Management System (UMMS).
Companies that express interest in this Lot will be ineligible to express interest in Lot 3, either as a main contractor, a member of a consortium or a sub-contractor.
RCM is a specialism, a key factor in ensuring high quality RCM analyses and subsequent successful implementation is that personnel are trained in the subject matter to a level of competence which enables them to deliver to the required standard. The prospective contract will be a single-supplier Enabling Framework. The successful contractor will be required to deliver RCM training courses to MOD personnel and contractors on a task by task basis.
Suppliers interested in providing this requirement are permitted to also express interest in delivering either Lot 1 or Lot 3.
1) Audit of the RCM methodology with the objective to verify compliance with Def Stan 00-45 and BR1313A.
2) Technical acceptance undertaken by the relevant technical authorities in order to endorse the outcome of the analysis.
The Authority intends to place a single-supplier Enabling Framework to deliver this requirement with all work to be authorised on a task by task basis.
Potential suppliers that express interest in delivering this Lot (either as a main contractor, consortium or sub-contractor) will be prohibited from expressing interest or carrying out requirements for Lot 1 (either as a main contractor, consortium or sub-contractor).
Potential providers are able to bid for an individual Lot or a combination of Lots 1 and 2 or Lots 2 and 3 and the Authority intends to place a contract with a single successful provider for each Lot. The successful supplier for Lot 3 will be required to Audit the outputs of Lot 1 and therefore the Lot 3 supplier must be independent of the successful supplier for Lot 1. Companies bidding for Lot 3 will be ineligible to bid for Lot 1 or to act as a sub-contractor to a company bidding for Lot 1 for the purposed of delivering Lot 1 requirements.
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.