Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
entity
I.1) Name and addresses
Ministry of Defence, Ships, Maritime Combat Systems (MCS) Team
CSA Birch 1c, Abbey Wood
Bristol
BS34 8JH
UK
Contact person: Felicity Roberts
Telephone: +44 3067985293
E-mail: felicity.roberts103@mod.gov.uk
NUTS: UK
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-defence
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
CRPA, PFS and NAVFIX In Service Support
Reference number: Not Provided
II.1.2) Main CPV code
34933000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
In service support for controlled reception pattern antenna (CRPA), precision fixing system (PFS) and NAVFIX.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
4 500 000.00
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UK
Main site or place of performance:
UNITED KINGDOM.
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
Not provided.
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
1) The United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (the ‘Authority’) intends to place a new in-service support contract with Drumgrange Ltd (the ‘Company’) in order to support controlled reception pattern antenna (CRPA), precision fixing system (PFS) and NAVFIX. This will be made up of a single 5-year contract;
2) The contract will continue to provide support under a contract for logistic support arrangement which will include spares and repairs support, maintenance and obsolescence management along with ad-hoc tasking. The total value for this new contract is 4 500 000 GBP;
3) It is considered that this contract can be placed using the negotiated procedure without prior publication pursuant to Article 28(1)(e) of Directive 2009/81/EC and Section 16(1)(a)(ii) of the Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011 (SI 1848), on the basis that the contract may be awarded only to the Company for technical reasons.
This is because:
(a) it is technically impracticable for a supplier other than the Company to maintain and repair the equipment as specific know-how, extensive technical knowledge and maintenance history of the products and characteristics of the system(s) being maintained is required;
(b) a fundamental safety management requirement is for the CRPA/PFS/NAVFIX systems to have a safety management system (SMS) at the highest (i.e. system) level to demonstrate how integration, functional management and changes at the sub-system or component level would be managed. As system designers, the Company is the only supplier able to perform this role;
(b) the Company is also the technical authority and is the only supplier with the appropriate level of system configuration knowledge and suitably qualified and experienced personnel (SQEP) available to meet the requirement. Use of any third party support supplier would therefore present an unacceptably high risk of compromised safety management;
(c) detailed design documentation and information is held by the Company for the proprietary equipment which is required for the performance of the contract due to the specialist nature of the system, its integration complexity with the RN vessels and time available before entry of the new capability.
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: CSA/3075
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
14/01/2019
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 1
Number of tenders received from SMEs: 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
Drumgrange Ltd
United Kingdom
15 South Way, Southwell Business Park, Portland, Dorset
Dorset
DT5 2NJ
UK
Telephone: +44 1305862100
E-mail: info@drumgrange.co.uk
Fax: +44 1305862101
NUTS: UK
Internet address(es)
URL: https://www.drumgrange.co.uk
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:
: 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-20191127-DCB-15612525
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
Ministry of Defence, Ships, Maritime Combat Systems (MCS) Team
Communication and Situational Awareness, Abbey Wood — Ash 1c, Bristol
Bristol
BS34 8JH
UK
Telephone: +44 3067985293
E-mail: felicity.roberts103@mod.gov.uk
Internet address(es)
URL: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-defence
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
27/11/2019