Floats and Gliders · UK public procurement notice

CPV: Gliders

Procedure method

Negotiated without publication of a contract notice

Legal basis

CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)

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

13 Jan 2023, 19:03 GMT

Last source update

13 Jan 2023, 19:03 GMT

Authority reference

706528450

FTS notice number

2023/S 000-001184

Classification (CPV)

Gliders

Delivery area

UK

Official registry OCID

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Why no open competition

The products involved are manufactured purely for the purpose of research, experiment, study or development under the conditions stated in the directive; The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator due to absence of competition for technical reasons; Additional deliveries by the original supplier ordered under the strict conditions stated in the directive

Published justification

The Secretary of State for Defence intends to enter into a supply contract with Teledyne for the purchase of 125 Floats and 6 Gliders for use in oceanographic data capture. The duration of the contract will be 2 months and has an estimated value of £3,9M. In accordance with the provisions of The Public Procurement (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 SI No. 2020/1319, this procurement falls to be regulated under the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as amended (in particular by SI 2020/1319). Prior publication of a contract notice in the Official Journal of the European Union is no longer appropriate. It is considered that the award of the contract without prior publication of a contract notice in the UK e-notification service (as required by the relevant legislation) is lawful in accordance with regulation 32(5)(b) of the PCR 2015 because these goods consist of additional deliveries by the original supplier, Teledyne, which are intended either as a partial replacement of supplies or installations or as the extension of existing supplies or installations where a change of supplier would oblige the contracting authority to acquire supplies having different technical characteristics which would result in incompatibility or disproportionate technical difficulties in operation and maintenance. Operating a different type of glider would require new and separate communications architecture to be put into place with attendant cost and potential security impact. Furthermore, there is no single software package that allows you to control different brands of vehicles at once which has direct implications for the intended manner of use for these vehicles.

Publisher note: The Secretary of State for Defence intends to enter into a supply contract with Teledyne for the purchase of 125 Floats and 6 Gliders for use in oceanographic data capture. The duration of the contract will be 2 months and has an estimated value of £3,9M. In accordance with the provisions of The Public Procurement (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 SI No. 2020/1319, this procurement falls to be regulated under the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as amended (in particular by SI 2020/1319). Prior publication of a contract notice in the Official Journal of the European Union is no longer appropriate. It is considered that the award of the contract without prior publication of a contract notice in the UK e-notification service (as required by the relevant legislation) is lawful in accordance with regulation 32(5)(b) of the PCR 2015 because these goods consist of additional deliveries by the original supplier, Teledyne, which are intended either as a partial replacement of supplies or installations or as the extension of existing supplies or installations where a change of supplier would oblige the contracting authority to acquire supplies having different technical characteristics which would result in incompatibility or disproportionate technical difficulties in operation and maintenance. Operating a different type of glider would require new and separate communications architecture to be put into place with attendant cost and potential security impact. Furthermore, there is no single software package that allows you to control different brands of vehicles at once which has direct implications for the intended manner of use for these vehicles.

• TeledyneAwarded supplier Kópavogur, IS

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