JES/00141 - UW Support

MOD Prior Information Notice

GB-Bristol:

Ministry of Defence, IBOC, Yew 2a, #1237, MOD Abbey Wood (South), Bristol, BS34 8JH, United Kingdom

3. Contract:

Contracting Authority’s file Reference number:

Type of Contract: SERVICES

Estimated value of requirement: c£20m

Background

IBOC intends to run a Limited/ Exempt Competition for Under Water Support, involving support services for sonar equipment(s) deployed on (primarily) sub-surface naval platforms. The requirement includes but is not limited to the following activities

It is envisaged that the Contract will be let for an initial two years and six months (2 ½) period with options to extend for a further five years (5) period (inclusive of a 6 month transition phase). The potential mechanism and duration are indicative and subject to change at the sole discretion of the Contracting Authority.

The Estimated Value of Contract represents the estimated minimum and maximum values of the Contract. The maximum figure is only an estimate and the total cumulative value of core activity and tasks placed under the Contract. The final contract value (inclusive of tasking) may be above or below this figure.

This Prior Information Notice (PIN) will be utilised by the Authority to inform and commence any potential future procurement process. The Authority requests that companies that wish to take part in the competitive procurement process (indicative timeframes detailed below), should express their interest via the DSP and email to William.Pope101@mod.gov.uk and Huw.Ellis109@mod.gov.uk. Interested parties should respond by 1st November 2022. Responses received after this date will not be considered for involvement in any future competitive process. Following this period, the Authority anticipates launching the project by issuing a Contract Notice and Preliminary Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) directly to the interested parties/ respondents to this PIN only.

Prospective suppliers will be required to hold List X status at Contract Award. Tenderers will be required to hold SC clearance, and demonstrate processes in place to access, storage and manage documentation at SECRET classification to participate in any competition and in order to access to the PQQ and ITT documentation. Clearances and processes will be checked prior to any further involvement/ release of any further documentation. To support this, when registering an interest in this event, please provide the following details:

Please also provide the following (whereby your organisation does not have one of following of these, or both, please state this in your response).

Any potential future procurement exercise will be exempt from the Defence and Securities Public Contract Regulations 2011 (DSPCR) in accordance with Regulation 7(1)(a) of the DSPCR in conjunction with Regulation 6(3A)(a) and therefore no rights, duties, obligations or liabilities arising from DSCPR 2011 and/or EU Treaties will apply. By expressing an interest to participate in any potential future competition, you acknowledge that none of the obligations, rights and remedies deriving from the DSPCR and/ or EU treaties apply to this Contract.

The Contract shall be considered non-exclusive, and as such shall not limit the ability of the contracting Authority to run Under Water / Sonar procurement exercises outside of the Contract. The Authority also reserves the right to use the Contract to fulfil requirements that are related to the capabilities covered by the Contract but are outside of the immediate scope of the Under Water Support programme.

The Authority may at its sole discretion:

The Authority does not bind itself to enter into any contract(s) arising out of the proceedings envisaged by this PIN and no contractual rights express or implied arise out of this notice or the procedures envisaged by it.

Indicative timeframes (subject to confirmation/ change by the Authority):

Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ): November/December 2022

Invitation to Tender (ITT): April/May 2023

Contract Award: September/October 2023