CONTRACT NOTICE FOR CONTRACTS IN THE FIELD OF DEFENCE AND SECURITY
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Section I: Contracting Authority
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I.1)
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Name, Address and Contact Point(s)
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Ministry of Defence |
Bldg 95, Waterloo Lines, Imber Road |
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BA12 0DJ |
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Deborah Orchard
Orchard Deborah |
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ArmyComrcl-LWC-Mailbox@mod.gov.uk |
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www.contracts.mod.uk
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I.2)
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Type of contracting Authority and Main Activity or Activities
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Section II: Object of the Contract
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II.1)
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Description
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II.1.1)
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Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authorityDriver Training Delivery and Support Contract |
II.1.2)
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Type of service contract3Main site or location of works, place of delivery or performance
Defence School of Transport - Leconfield
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II.1.3)
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Information on framework agreement
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II.1.4)
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Information on framework agreement (if applicable)
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Number of participants to the framework agreement envisaged
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Duration of the framework agreement
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Justification for a framework agreement the duration of which exceeds seven years
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Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the framework agreement
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Frequency and value of the contracts to be awarded |
II.1.5)
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Short description of the contract or purchase(s)
Provision of driver licence acquisition training for wheeled vehicles including the provision of training support, training design and establishment support.
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II.1.6)
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Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
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75221000 |
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II.1.7)
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Information about subcontracting
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II.1.8)
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Division into lots No |
II.1.9)
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Will variants be accepted
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II.2)
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Quantity or Scope of the Contract
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II.2.1)
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Total quantity or scope |
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II.2.2)
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Information about options |
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Provisional timetable for recourse to these options
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II.2.3)
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Information about renewals
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II.3)
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Duration of the contract or limit for completion 1-4-2025 31-3-2033 |
Section III: Legal, Economic, Financial and Technical Information
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III.1)
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Conditions Relating to the Contract
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III.1.1)
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Deposits and guarantees required
A Parent Company Guarantee and/or Performance Bond in a form to be provided by the MoD may be required. Details will be included in the Tender Documentation, if applicable
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III.1.2)
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Main Terms of financing and payment and/or reference to the relevant provisions
Potential Suppliers must note the mandatory requirement for electronic trading using the Contracting,
Purchasing & Finance (CP&F) electronic trading tool. All payments for deliverables under the contract shall only be made via CP&F.
Details can be found at:
http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mod-contracting-purchasing-and-finance-eprocurement-systems
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III.1.3)
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Legal form to be taken by the grouping of suppliers, contractors or service providers to whom the contract is to be awarded
In the event of a group provider submitting an acceptable offer, the MoD reserves the right to require the group of bidders to take a legal form or require one bidder to take Prime Contractor responsibility or to require that each member of the group undertakes joint and severable liability for the performance of the agreement and any call-off made under it.
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III.1.4)
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Other particular conditions to which the performance of the contract is subject
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
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III.1.5)
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Information about security clearance
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III.2)
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Conditions for Participation
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III.2.1)
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Personal situation
Suppliers Instructions How to Express Interest in this Tender:
1. Register your company on the eSourcing portal (this is only required once)
- Browse to the eSourcing Portal
- Click the “Click here to register” link
- Accept the terms and conditions and click “continue”
- Enter your correct business and user details
- Note the username you chose and click “Save” when complete
- You will shortly receive an email with your unique password (please keep this secure)
2. Express an Interest in the tender
- Login to the portal with the username/password
- Click the "PQQs Open to All Suppliers" link. (These are Pre-Qualification Questionnaires open to any registered supplier)
- Click on the relevant PQQ to access the content.
- Click the “Express Interest” button in the “Actions” box on the left-hand side of the page.
- This will move the PQQ into your “My PQQs” page. (This is a secure area reserved for your projects only)
- Click on the PQQ code, you can now access any attachments by clicking the “Settings and Buyer Attachments” in the “Actions” box
3. Responding to the tender
- You can now choose to “Reply” or “Reject” (please give a reason if rejecting)
- You can now use the ‘Messages’ function to communicate with the buyer and seek any clarification
- Note the deadline for completion, then follow the onscreen instructions to complete the PQQ
- There may be a mixture of online & offline actions for you to perform (there is detailed online help available)
If you require any further assistance please consult the online help, or contact the eTendering help desk.
Suppliers Instructions How to Express Interest in this Tender:
1. Register your company on the eSourcing portal (this is only required once)
- Browse to the eSourcing Portal
- Click the “Click here to register” link
- Accept the terms and conditions and click “continue”
- Enter your correct business and user details
- Note the username you chose and click “Save” when complete
- You will shortly receive an email with your unique password (please keep this secure)
2. Express an Interest in the tender
- Login to the portal with the username/password
- Click the "PQQs Open to All Suppliers" link. (These are Pre-Qualification Questionnaires open to any registered supplier)
- Click on the relevant PQQ to access the content.
- Click the “Express Interest” button in the “Actions” box on the left-hand side of the page.
- This will move the PQQ into your “My PQQs” page. (This is a secure area reserved for your projects only)
- Click on the PQQ code, you can now access any attachments by clicking the “Settings and Buyer Attachments” in the “Actions” box
3. Responding to the tender
- You can now choose to “Reply” or “Reject” (please give a reason if rejecting)
- You can now use the ‘Messages’ function to communicate with the buyer and seek any clarification
- Note the deadline for completion, then follow the onscreen instructions to complete the PQQ
- There may be a mixture of online & offline actions for you to perform (there is detailed online help available)
If you require any further assistance please consult the online help, or contact the eTendering help desk.
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III.2.2)
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Economic and financial standing
Information necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met:
(a) Appropriate statements from the economic operator's bankers or where appropriate, evidence of relevant professional risk indemnity insurance;
(b) The presentation of balance-sheets or extracts from the balance-sheets, where publication of the balance-sheet is required under the law of the country in which the economic operator is established;
(c) where appropriate, a statement, covering the two previous financial years of the economic operator,
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(i) the overall turnover of the business of the economic operator; and
(ii) where appropriate, the turnover in respect of the work, works, goods or services which are of a similar type to the subject matter of the contract.
As specified in the pre-qualification questionnaire document.
See Annex A of the DTP PQQ Guide
As per above
See Annex A of the DTP PQQ Guide
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III.2.3)
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Technical and/or professional capacity
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met:
(a) in the case of a supply contract requiring the siting or installation of goods, a services contract or a works contract, the economic operator's technical ability, taking into account in particular that economic operator's skills, efficiency, experience and reliability;
(b) a statement of the principal goods sold or services provided by the supplier or the services provider in the past five years,
and:
(i) the dates on which the goods were sold or the services provided;
(ii) the consideration received;
(iii) the identity of the person to whom the goods were sold or the service were provided;
(iv) any certificate issued or countersigned by that person confirming the details of the contract for those goods sold or services provided; and
(v) where - (a) that person was not a contracting authority, and (b) the certificate referred to in subparagraph
(b)(iv) is not available, any declaration by the economic operator attesting the details of the goods sold or services provided;
(c) a statement of the technicians or technical services available to the economic operator to:
(i) carry out the work under the contract, or
(ii) be involved in the production of goods or the provision of services under the contract, particularly
those responsible for quality control, whether or not they are independent of the economic operator;
(d) the environmental management measures, that the economic operator is able to apply when performing the contract, but only where it is necessary for the performance of that contract;
(e) a description of the tools, material, technical equipment, staff numbers, know-how and sources of supply (with an indication of their geographical location when it is outside the territory of the EU) available to the economic operator to perform the contract, cope with any additional needs required by the contracting authority as a result of a crisis or carry out the maintenance, modernisation or adaptation of the goods covered by the contract;
See Annex A of the DTP PQQ Guide
As above
See Annex A of the DTP PQQ Guide
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III.2.4)
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Reserved contracts
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Section IV: Procedure
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IV.1)
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Type of Procedure
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IV.1.1)
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Type of Procedure
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Justification for the choice of accelerated procedure
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IV.1.2)
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Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate4 |
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Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates
The Authority intends to restrict the number of tenderers to a maximum of at least 4 (four). The Authority will assess the suitability of suppliers to be invited to tender using the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) that interested suppliers must complete to be considered. The PQQ will be assessed and, if necessary, the number of suppliers reduced to a maximum of four, using the following assessment criteria, all of which must be met.
1. Suppliers must score a "PASS" against all questions throughout the questionnaire that are scored as "PASS/FAIL".
2. Suppliers must demonstrate satisfactory (PASS) evidence against questions Serial 1.13 - Part 1 - Form E - Technical and Professional Ability.
3. Suppliers must achieve a minimum pass mark of 55% in questions Serial 2.1 - Part 2 - Form F - Project Technical Questions.
In the event that more than 4 (four) suppliers meet all the criteria specified in the Evaluation Guide, the Authority will only invite to tender the 4 (four) top ranking suppliers. Suppliers will be ranked using the total weighted score allocated against the scored questions in serial 2.4 - Part 2 -Form F - Project Technical Questions. If there are a number of suppliers with the same score the Authority reserves the right to invite more than the maximum number of 4 (four) suppliers.
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IV.1.3)
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Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue
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IV.2)
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Award Criteria
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No
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Yes
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No
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IV.2.2)
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An electronic auction will be used No
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IV.3 Administrative Information
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IV.3.1)
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Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority
703902450
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IV.3.2)
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Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract
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Other previous publications
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IV.3.3)
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Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents
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IV.3.4)
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Time-limit for requests to participate 3-10-2023
12:00 |
IV.3.5)
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Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates
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IV.3.6)
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Language or languages in which tenders or requests to participate can be drawn up
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Section VI: Complimentary Information
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VI.1)
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Indicate whether this procurement is a recurrent one and the Estimated timing for further notices to be published
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VI.2)
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Does the contract relate to a Project/Programme financed by Community Funds? No
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VI.3)
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Additional Information
The Contracting Authority intends to use an e-Tendering system in this procurement exercise, please visit www.contracts.mod.uk for full details and to register your interest in this procurement.
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 intends to invite no more than 4 (four) Economic Operators to tender for this requirement and will therefore conduct a pre-qualification exercise to assist in any down select. Only those Economic Operators who can demonstrate a sufficient level of economic and financial standing and technical or professional ability against the Authority's pre-qualification criteria may be invited to tender. Should more than 4 (four) (or fewer than 4 (four)) Economic Operators fulfil the selection criteria, the Authority reserves the right to conduct a further down selection.
Full details on how to access the 'Dynamic' Pre-Qualification Questionnaire linked to this advert are contained in the final two paragraphs below. The Authority reserves the right to seek independent financial and market advice to validate information declared, or to assist in any pre-qualification evaluation.
A Cyber Risk Assessment has been carried out for this requirement. The risk has been assessed as HIGH, and the reference number is RAR-511529460. Potential suppliers should log on at the address below and complete a Supplier Assurance Questionnaire (SAQ), the results of which must be submitted along with the bidder's tender response.
https://supplier-cyber-protection.service.gov.uk
DOWN SELECT PROCESS
Detailed in the PQQ Guide included in the supporting documentation.
Bidders should note that any draft ITN documents included in the supporting documentation are for information purposes ONLY, at this stage. 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 http://www.contracts.mod.uk.
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.
Please ensure you follow any instruction provided to you here.
The deadline for submitting your response(s) is detailed within this contract notice, you will also have visibility of the deadline date, once you have added the Access code via DSP as the opening and closing date is visible within the opportunity.
Please ensure that you allow yourself plenty of time when responding to this opportunity 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 (FAQs) or the User Guides or contact the MOD DSP Helpdesk by emailing support@contracts.mod.uk or Telephone 0800 282 324.
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VI.4)
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Procedures for appeal
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VI.4.1)
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Body responsible for appeal procedures
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Body responsible for mediation procedures
ARMY COMMERCIAL |
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VI.4.2)
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Lodging of appeals
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Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained
ARMY COMMERCIAL |
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VI.5)
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Dispatch date of this Notice 4-9-2023 |