Official UK procurement notice
AWE-4G LTE Network and Associated Services
Authority: Ministry of Defence (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement description4G LTE Network and Associated Services
CPV: Communication software package
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- Lowest price
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32009L0081 Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011 (Directive 2009/81/EC)
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Awarded
- 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
- 15 Dec 2021, 22:45 GMT
- Last source update
- 15 Dec 2021, 22:45 GMT
- Authority reference
702414455-1- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-031318- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0301cdFind a Tender
- Why no open competition
No tenders or no suitable tenders/requests to participate in response to negotiated procedure with prior publication of a contract notice; The products involved are manufactured purely for the purpose of research, experiment, study or development under the conditions stated in the directive
- Published justification
UK MoD, Army Headquarter, by the Army Warfighting Experiment (AWE) programme intend to award a contract to Kinected Solution Ltd for the provision of a Rugged Private LTE with fully integrated embedded edge compute and embedded mesh backhaul capability. The AWE is the way the Army conducts large-scale Research and Experimentation. Army needs to upgrade its experimental network to support the AWE series by the 1st March 2022. Kinected Solution Ltd is the only known supplier of a Rugged Private LTE with fully integrated embedded edge compute and embedded mesh backhaul capability, which can meet the AWE Urban Series March 2022, 4G LTE technology requirement.
DSPCR, Regulation 16 (1) (c) (i) Research and Development (R&D) applies. Any future Army operational capability fulfilment will be subject to a formal competition.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kinected Solutions LtdSMESubcontracting: declared | £466,489 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
AWE-4G LTE Network and Associated Services · Kinected Solutions LtdSME
- Signed
- 14 Dec 2021
- Value
- £466,489
- Status
- active
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- MoDMediation bodyReview bodyReview contact point
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Kinected Solutions LtdAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.