CONTRACT AWARD NOTICE FOR CONTRACTS IN THE FIELD OF DEFENCE AND SECURITY

Section I: Contracting Authority

I.1)

Name, Address and Contact Point(s)

I.2)

Type of contracting Authority and Main Activity or Activities

Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local sub-divisions National or federal agency/Office Regional or local Authority Regional or local Agency/Office Body governed by public law European Institution/Agency or International Organisation

General public services Defence Public order and safety Environment Economic and financial affairs Health Housing and community amenities Social protection Recreation, culture and religion Education

Section II: Object of the Contract

II.1)

Description

II.1.1)

Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority

II.1.2(a))

Type of works contract

II.1.2(b))

Type of supplies contract

	Purchase
	Rent
	Lease
	Hire-purchase
	Combination of these

II.1.2(c))

Type of service contract

II.1.2)

Main site or location of works, place of delivery or performance

II.1.3)

This notice involves a framework agreement

II.1.4)

Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

Babcock Land Defence Limited - acting as agent to the UK Ministry of Defence ("the Authority") - has

under consideration a 3-year Framework Agreement for The Supply of Tooling, Equipment & Associated Items. The requirement is split into 2 lots.

Lot 1 - Workshop Tooling & Equipment

C600 NSNs – Estimated value £10.1M

Lot 2 - Measuring, Inspection & Testing Equipment

C500 NSNs – Estimated value £7.4M

The basket of goods to be provided at ITT, will represents c1,000 items which account for over 75% of forecast value for the Contract. It is anticipated that the remaining 25% of forecast items by volume and value, which are all aligned to the scope and characteristics of this Contract, will be added to Contract via a satisfactory RFQ process with the successful bidders in 2 phases following Contract Award:

Phase 1: c500 NSNs

Phase 2: c500 NSNs

Total: c1,000 NSNs All items within the scope of requirement are codified to NATO Stock Numbers (NSNs).

Tenderers shall be provided with NATO Stock Numbers and shall be informed of any required applicable compliance standards. Tenderers shall be expected to provide items which comply with the requirements of CSIS (the Codification Support Information Systems maintained by the United Kingdom National Codification Bureau). Some items are required to be procured to a drawing which will be circulated as appropriate. This will have an advertised contract value of £15m - £20m. Each individual lot shall be awarded to the bidder who provides the most economically advantageous tender based on the basket of goods and responses to the Obsolescence, Quality and Social Values questions.

Babcock Land Defence Limited reserve the right to add further items of a similar nature to the contract post award (over and above those items envisaged to be added to contract). The resulting contract shall contain a set of Key Performance Indicators to measure performance in areas such as delivery and quality, and shall include remedies for poor performance. The Authority shall award the Contract in accordance with the evaluation criteria which will be detailed in the Invitation To Tender. The PQQ shall be assessed on DSP using the selection criteria given within the PQQ

and within each question. It is the intention of the Authority to down select the economic operators who will be invited to tender on a pass/fail basis.

Contract name:

IRM22/7611

Risk Assessment Ref: RAR-773112218

Cyber Risk Profile: Very Low

II.1.5)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

II.2)

Total final value of the contract(s)

II.2.1)

Total final value of the contract(s)

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)

Type of procedure

IV.1.1)

Type of procedure

IV.2)

Award criteria

IV.2.1)

Award criteria

IV.2.2)

An electronic auction has been used

IV.3)

Administrative information

IV.3.1)

File reference number attributed by the contracting authority

IRM22/7611

IV.3.2)

Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

Other previous publications

Section V: Award of contract

Contract No:

Title:

Lot No:

V.1)

Date of contract award:

V.2)

Numbers of offers received:

Number of offers received by electronic means:

V.3)

Name and address of economic operator to whom the contract has been awarded

V.4)

Information on value of contract

V.5)

The contract is likely to be subcontracted

Short description of the value/proportion of the contract to be subcontracted

Section VI: Complementary Information

VI.1)

Contract related to a project and/or programme financed by community funds?

VI.2)

Additional Information

VI.3)

Procedures for appeal

VI.3.1)

Body responsible for appeal procedures

Body responsible for mediation procedures

VI.3.2)

Lodging of appeals

VI.3.3)

Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained

VI.4)

Dispatch date of this Notice