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)
Walnut 2B, NH1, #1229, Abbeywood
Bristol
BS34 8JH
UK
Contact person: David Riches
Telephone: +44 3067982025
E-mail: david.riches100@mod.gov.uk
NUTS: UKK11
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://www.contracts.mod.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 Spares for ADE, AFE and HUSLE
Reference number: C17CSAE/700007870
II.1.2) Main CPV code
39523000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Supplies
II.1.4) Short description
Contract for the Provision of Airborne Equipment and Helicopter Underslung Load Equipment (HUSLE) equipment types. The parachute equipment required includes specific parachute packing spares for both Airborne Delivery Equipment (ADE) stores parachutes and Airborne Forces Equipment (AFE)
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
4 000 000.00
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKK11
Main site or place of performance:
Bristol, City of.
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
This is a contract for the procurement only of spares and capital items in order to maintain fleet availability for the Airborne Equipment and Helicopter Under Slung Load Equipment (HUSLE) equipment types, Airborne Delivery Equipment (ADE) stores parachutes and Airborne Forces Equipment (AFE) personnel parachutes.
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
IrvinGQ, formerly Airborne Systems Ltd, is the Design organisation (DO) for the Airborne Equipment and Helicopter Under Slung Load Equipment (HUSLE) equipment types and through extant and previous contracts is responsible for their associated Post design services (PDS), and the parachute packing and repair support services. The parachute equipment required includes specific parachute packing spares for both Airborne Delivery Equipment (ADE) stores parachutes and Airborne Forces Equipment (AFE) personnel parachutes. Without a contract placed for procurement of the items required, these capabilities would cease to be available to the UK Armed Forces, including National Standby capabilities.
Our intention is to place a one-off contract for the procurement only of spares and Capital items in order to maintain fleet availability until a longer term contract is in place.
Parachute packing is contracted to the Airborne Forces Parachute Servicing Unit (AFPSU) branch of IrvinGQ under the Parachute Equipment Support Contract (PESC) which was awarded through competition, and is a spares-exclusive contract. Before PESC, parachute packing was contracted to AFPSU in a spares-inclusive contract, where IrvinGQ (AFPSU) procured the parachute packing spares (such as cords and threads) for their own use. The same specific types of spares still need to be used for parachute packing in order to ensure that the physical configuration control of the parachute system is maintained as underwritten by the parachute Design organisation. IrvinGQ therefore have end-to-end knowledge of the design and usage of parachutes and are uniquely equipped to meet the requirement for this one-off purchase contract to provide more of the same parachute items that they have previously provided and currently use for parachuting packing.
The design and engineering drawings are subject to copyright, which vests in the contractor. The authority has not secured rights in this documentation, where it was delivered, to pass to a third party. This means that a third party could not replicate the equipment types with certainty, and the authority could not accurate specify the equipment types to advertise in a competition.
As the Design organisation (DO) only IrvinGQ has the expertise to complete this Statement of Requirement (SoR) and they are therefore the sole entity under technical grounds. For the specific parachute equipment to be procured under this contract, safety engineers within the C17CSAE DT, including the TAA, do not consider that the parachute performance characteristics pertaining to their safe operation could be derived from analysis of the equipment. MOD safety authorities would therefore not have sufficient confidence in the quality of advice that could be provided by anyone other than the original designer of the parachute system.
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/700007870
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
16/12/2019
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 1
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
IrvinGQ
AFPSU, Llangeinor
Bridgend
CF32 8PL
UK
Telephone: +44 1656727013
E-mail: GBuckley@irvingq.com
NUTS: UKL17
The contractor is an SME:
No
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Total value of the contract/lot:
: 4 000 000.00
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-2020131-DCB-15910234
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)
Walnut 2B, NH1, #1229, Abbeywood
Bristol
BS34 8JH
UK
Telephone: +44 3067982025
E-mail: david.riches100@mod.gov.uk
VI.4.2) Body responsible for mediation procedures
Ministry of Defence, Air Support, C17 Command Support and Airborne Equipment Project Team (CSAE PT)
Walnut 2B, NH1, Abbey wood
Bristol
BS34 8JH
UK
Telephone: +44 3067982025
E-mail: DESC17CSAE-Commercial@mod.gov.uk
VI.4.4) Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Ministry of Defence, Air Support, C17 Command Support and Airborne Equipment Project Team (CSAE PT)
Bristol
UK
Telephone: +44 3067982025
E-mail: DESC17CSAE-Commercial@mod.gov.uk
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
31/01/2020