Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
entity
I.1) Name and addresses
Ministry of Defence, C&C, C&C
D Res, Zone 8, 2nd Floor, Ramillies Building, Marlborough Lines, Monxton Road
Andover, Hampshire
SP11 8HJ
UK
Contact person: Army Commercial
Telephone: +44 1264381291
E-mail: james.racheter100@mod.gov.uk
NUTS: UKJ35
Internet address(es)
Main address: http://www.gov.uk
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
I.5) Main activity
Defence
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
Provision of Virtual Reality in Land Training — Phase 2
Reference number: ArmyHQ2/00408
II.1.2) Main CPV code
71600000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
The Army is looking to enhance the scope of the VRLT pilot to include complementary innovation opportunities that have not been actively pursued to date. This requirement delivers additional innovation into the VRLT and secures exploitation of the existing pilot hardware.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
137 588.00
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKJ35
Main site or place of performance:
South Hampshire.
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
The Army is looking to enhance the scope of the VRLT pilot to include complementary innovation opportunities that have not been actively pursued to date. This requirement delivers additional innovation into the VRLT and secures exploitation of the existing pilot hardware.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Price
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
No
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No
II.2.14) Additional information
Army HQ Commercial Branch, part of the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), intends to award a contract to Bohemia Interactive Simulations (UK) Ltd for the provision of additional support to the virtual reality in-land training pilot as soon as possible.
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Award of a contract without prior publication of a call for competition
Justification for selected award procedure:
The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator for the following reason: absence of competition for technical reasons
Explanation
The VRLT pilot is an agile development of emerging COTS gaming virtual reality technology to demonstrate a low cost, interoperable, mobile and deployable collective training capability that could compliment and integrate with other synthetics in the Land Domain. The pilot is made up of 3 sprints, the first of which has been successful in putting VR into the hands of the user, demonstrating technology in context structured against collective competencies in a contemporary operating scenario, and coupling innovation with exploitation working closely with industry delivered innovations. Two further sprints are planned, to conclude by Apr 19.
There is an opportunity to demonstrate additional training innovations. It is proposed that these can be achieved using the extant infrastructure and allocated troops to prove concepts and provide evidence for the CTTP. Training innovations were identified originally but are complimentary to the VR technology being piloted and meet known collective training shortfalls. Additionally, the equipment from the pilot will be transferred to 2 new simulation training centres in Tidworth and Catterick. The virtual reality in-land training pilot is part of an innovative, agile solution and the additional deliverables required currently sit outside of the scope of the current contract but are intrinsically linked to the VRLT pilot and the overall outcomes of the project. Training innovation can be demonstrated in tandem with the scheduled sprints (2 and 3) and meet the collective training shortfalls. The proposed additional technology innovations are complementary to the VRLT Pilot and will inform development of the collective training transformation programme (CTTP). Any other supplier’s equipment could be incompatible with this system, and with the existing goods. If such a link was attempted this could lead to disproportionate technical difficulties in operation and maintenance and hinder the planned sprints.
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
No
Section V: Award of contract
Contract No: ArmyHQ2/00408
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
15/04/2019
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 1
Number of tenders received by electronic means: 1
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Bohemia Interactive Simulations (UK) Ltd
Farnborough Aerospace Centre, 31 Hercules Way
Farnborough
GU14 6UU
UK
Telephone: +44 1252375800
E-mail: david.orwin@bisimulations.com
NUTS: UKJ37
The contractor is an SME:
Yes
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Initial estimated total value of the contract/lot:
Total value of the contract/lot:
: 137 588.00
GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
The contract is likely to be subcontracted
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.3) Additional information
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
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-2019812-DCB-15240186
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
Ministry of Defence, C&C, C&C
D Res, Zone 8, 2nd Floor, Ramillies Building, Marlborough Lines, Monxton Road
Andover, Hampshire
SP11 8HJ
UK
Telephone: +44 1264381291
E-mail: james.racheter100@mod.gov.uk
Internet address(es)
URL: http://www.gov.uk
VI.4.2) Body responsible for mediation procedures
Ministry of Defence, C&C, C&C
D Res, Zone 8, 2nd Floor, Ramillies Building, Marlborough Lines, Monxton Road
Andover
SP11 8HJ
UK
Telephone: +44 1264381291
E-mail: james.racheter100@mod.gov.uk
VI.4.4) Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Ministry of Defence, C&C, C&C
D Res, Zone 8, 2nd Floor, Ramillies Building, Marlborough Lines, Monxton Road
Andover
SP11 8HJ
UK
Telephone: +44 1264381291
E-mail: ArmyComrcl-T1-Mailbox@mod.gov.uk
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
12/08/2019