Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
Ministry of Defence, DSG, Armoured Vehicles Programmes — Artillery Systems Programme
Building B15, MoD Donnington
Telford
TF2 8JT
UK
Contact person: Mena Gosling-Hughes
Telephone: +44 1952967340
E-mail: mena.gosling-hughes@babcockinternational.com
NUTS: UKG21
Internet address(es)
Main address: www.babcockinternational.com
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
Repair of X200 Transmissions fitted to the Bulldog Armoured Fighting Vehicle Platform
Reference number: IRM17/4828
II.1.2) Main CPV code
50116400
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
Babcock DSG Ltd acting as the authority's agent, intend to negotiate a single source enabling contract with Caterpillar Shrewsbury Ltd for the repair of a quantity not to exceed 100 (one hundred) X200 transmissions fitted to the Bulldog Armoured Vehicle Fighting Vehicle Platform.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
3 500 000.00
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
50116400
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKG21
Main site or place of performance:
Telford and Wrekin.
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
Babcock DSG Ltd acting as the authority’s agent intend to negotiate a single source contract with Caterpillar Shrewsbury Ltd for the repair of a quantity (not to exceed 100) of the X200 transmissions fitted to the Bulldog Armoured Fighting Vehicle Platform.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Cost criterion: Technical Compliance
/ Weighting: 50
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
The estimated quantity within this proposed contract is for a quantity not to exceed 100 of the X200 transmissions. There are no lots or option years included.
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
Babcock DSG Ltd acting as the authority’s agent intend to negotiate a single source contract with Caterpillar Shrewsbury Ltd for the repair of up to a qty of 100 of the X200 transmissions fitted to Bulldog Armoured Fighting Vehicle Platform.
It is considered that this contract can be placed using the negotiated procedure without prior publication pursuant to Article 28(1)(e) of the Directive 2009/81/EC(Regulation 16(1)(a)(ii) of the UK Defence and Security Public Contract Regulations 2011) for technical reasons.
Allison Transmissions are the OEM, all drawings and specifications of the X200 were developed with internal funding and are proprietary to them, and are a highly specialised type of transmission modified to fit the specific application. This requirement is for the repair and reconditioning of the X200.
Without the detailed technical information referenced above a supplier would not be able to ensure repaired and reconditioned X200’s were fit for purpose in accordance with the original design specifications, or maintain configuration control such as build standards, drawing and test specifications. The X200 is part of the safety critical part of the Bulldog powertrain and is therefore essential to the safe operation of the Bulldog platforms and maintaining the status of the safety case at ALARP.
Caterpillar Shrewsbury Ltd is the only agent in the UK that Allison licence to carry out work on their range of defence products and as a consequence Caterpillar Shrewsbury Ltd is the only supplier with access to the design information and technical details, data and knowledge necessary to fulfil the requirement. The design information and technical details, data and knowledge are not available to any other supplier.
This notice advises that the UK Ministry of Defence has placed a single source non-qualifying contract with the named supplier to satisfy repairs to critical assets whilst an enduring solution is progressed.
IV.1.3) Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system
The procurement involves the establishment of a framework agreement
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
No
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure
Notice number in the OJ S:
2017/S 199-410584
Section V: Award of contract
Contract No: IRM17/4828
Title: Repair of X200 transmissions for the Bulldog Vehicle Platform
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
19/01/2018
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
Caterpillar Shrewsbury Ltd
Lancaster Road
Shrewsbury
SY1 3NX
UK
NUTS: UKG21
Internet address(es)
URL: www.cat.com
The contractor is an SME:
No
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:
: 3 500 000.00
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-2018124-DCB-11783151.
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
Babcock DSG
Building B15, MOD Donnington
Telford
TF2 8JT
UK
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
24/01/2018