Official UK procurement notice
Land Equipment Operating Centre Testing, Trialling & Advice
Authority: Ministry of Defence (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionLand Equipment Operating Centre Testing, Trialling & Advice
CPV: Test and evaluation of military vehicles
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Testing, Trialling & Advice
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
- “Land Equipment Operating Centre Testing, Trialling & Advice” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
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
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 1 Jun 2023, 17:28 BST
- Last source update
- 1 Jun 2023, 17:28 BST
- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-015621- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03d319Find 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; The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator due to absence of competition for technical reasons
- Published justification
The Soldier Training & Special Programmes (STSP) Project Team, part of the UK Ministry of Defence, intends to place a new contract with Millbrook Proving Ground Ltd for the testing, trialling and advice of Land Equipment Operating Centre (LEOC) wheeled vehicles. The contract value is estimated to be a maximum of £4M. The initial contract length will be 18 months, with the option of one additional six-month extension.
It is considered that the award of the contract without prior publication of a contract notice in the UK e-notification service (in accordance with the relevant legislation) is lawful in accordance with Regulation 16(1)(a)(ii) of the Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011 for technical reasons. The suitably qualified and experienced personnel (SQEP) from the STSP Engineering team conducted an analysis of the market capabilities and concluded that Millbrook Proving Ground Ltd is the sole economic operator with the necessary expertise, facilities, infrastructure, and capacity to conduct the full scope of required work.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast1 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
Land Equipment Operating Centre Testing, Trialling & Advice
- Signed
- 1 Jun 2023
- Value
- £4,000,000
- Status
- active
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Defence, Equipment & Support (DE&S)Review body
Framework contractors & participating bidders
1 commercial party on the notice- Millbrook Proving Ground Ltd.Framework contractor
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.