Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
entity
I.1) Name and addresses
Ministry of Defence, Air Support, C17 Command Support and Airborne Equipment Project Team (CSAE PT)
Ministry of Defence, Air Support, C17 Command Support and Airborne Equipment Project Team (CSAE PT)
Bristol
BS34 8JH
UK
Telephone: +44 67988110
E-mail: DESC17CSAE-Commercial@mod.gov.uk
NUTS: UKK
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://modgovuk.sharepoint.com/teams/2228
I.2) Joint procurement
The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body
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
C17CSAE/0060-Procurement of SC15 and SC21 Parachute Systems
Reference number: C17CSAE/0060
II.1.2) Main CPV code
39523000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Supplies
II.1.4) Short description
C17CSAE Project Team, part of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (“MOD”), intends to award a Contract to Irvin GQ to procure SC15 and SC21 parachute systems.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
3 049 943.20
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
39523000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKK
Main site or place of performance:
South West (ENGLAND).
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
C17CSAE Project Team, part of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (“MOD”), intends to award a Contract to Irvin GQ to procure SC15 and SC21 parachute systems.
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
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
It has been determined that this Contract can be placed using the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a Contract Notice pursuant to Article 28(1)(e) of Directive 2009/81/EC (Regulation 16(1)(a)(ii) of the UK Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011) for technical reasons. Multiple in-service ADE systems utilise and were designed around the SC15 and SC21 Parachute systems and these systems have all been extensively trialed for Airborne Equipment Release Certificate (AERC) clearance. No other parachute system is therefore deemed technically compatible or safe for use with the in-service ADE systems. IrvinGQ is the Design Organisation (DO) for both Parachute Systems and is deemed by the Type Airworthiness Authority (TAA) to be the only Design Organisation Approval Scheme (DAOS) approved supplier that meets the safety and airworthiness requirements to provide the SC15 and SC21 Parachute Systems. IrvinGQ Ltd holds proprietary information, in the form of the drawings setting out the design and engineering of the SC15 and SC21 parachute systems, which is unavailable to other economic operators. Other providers would therefore be unable to replicate the system with certainty or provide the requisite safety assurances. The contract may therefore only be awarded to this particular economic operator.
For these reasons, the specialist skills, know-how and technical information required, this equipment would not be available from an alternative supplier.
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: C17CSAE/0060
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
22/11/2018
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 1
Number of tenders received from SMEs: 0
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
IrvinGQ Limited
Bettws Road, Llangeinor
Bridgend
CF32 8PL
UK
Telephone: +44 67988110
E-mail: GBuckley@irvingq.com
NUTS: UKK
The contractor is an SME:
No
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Total value of the contract/lot:
: 3 049 943.20
GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
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-2019211-DCB-14051042
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
Ministry of Defence, Air Support, C17 Command Support and Airborne Equipment Project Team (CSAE PT)
C17CSAE PT, Mod Abbeywood, Walnut 2B
Bristol
BS34 8JH
UK
Telephone: +44 67988110
E-mail: DESC17CSAE-Commercial@mod.gov.uk
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
11/02/2019