Find a TenderPast planning notice
Published 28 Mar 2022, 16:13 BST

Official UK procurement notice

All Vehicle Screening Research

Official notice

Authority: Ministry of Defence (Central government)

Services
Planned pipeline value£120,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 16 May 2022from the planned procurement notice

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Training detection dogs to screen Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs) for target odours

The purpose of this proposed contract is to work with a search dog Contractor to:

  • Ensure there are at least 8 dogs capable of detecting a range of 12 target materials around the exterior of vehicle types (including cars, large vans, coaches and HGVs)

The Contractor will be required to provide a group of at least eight dogs and train them to detect up to 12 explosive and non-explosive materials, provided by the Authority. The Contractor should be able to source and utilise additional relevant materials in their training to allow the dogs to generalise across a range of similar samples of the required target materials.

The dogs must be trained to detect all target odours in both a stand-based test set-up and when concealed in various positions on exterior and interior of vehicles. Screening the interior of the trailer is out of scope for this contract. The dogs must be trained to discriminate the target odours from non-target odours that are concealed in a similar manner.

CPV: Research and Development services on security and defence materials

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Training detection dogs to screen Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs) for target odoursPlanned

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record · publisher note attached
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Past planning notice
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
28 Mar 2022, 16:13 BST
Last source update
28 Mar 2022, 16:13 BST
Authority reference
RQ0000005938
FTS notice number
2022/S 000-008324
Classification (CPV)
Research and Development services on security and defence materials
Delivery area
South West (UKK1)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03271e Find a Tender

Publisher note: Companies are required to provide a group of at least eight dogs which must be trained and available for testing. The Contractor should consider training more than eight dogs to ensure a minimum of eight trained dogs of the required standard are available for each phase of testing. Companies must adhere to UK Animal Welfare Act 2006 and the DEFRA Code of Practice for the Welfare of Dogs 2018 and must have Certificate to acquire and keep explosives (COER 3), certificate of registration for the storage of explosives, Recipient competent authority transfer document (licence to transport explosives) or national equivalent licencing. Companies that do do possess such pre-requisites should not consider bidding

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

28 Mar 2022 → 16 May 2022 · 2 dates
  1. Notice published
    28 Mar 2022, 16:13 BST
  2. Tender notice expected
    16 May 2022, 00:00 BST

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Pipeline notice
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Ministry of Defence

Contracting authorityCentral GovernmentMinistry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisionsResearch & Development DSTL,, Porton Down, UK, SP4 0JQContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.