Remote Weapons Stations, Weapons and Ammunition

CPV: Purchase · Weapons, ammunition and associated parts

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

14 Sept 2021, 22:45 BST

Last source update

14 Sept 2021, 22:45 BST

Authority reference

DSTL/AGR/01192/01

FTS notice number

2021/S 000-022875

Classification (CPV)

PurchaseWeapons, ammunition and associated parts

Delivery area

UK

Official registry OCID

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Why no open competition

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

Published justification

The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), part of the UK Ministry of Defence has awarded an amendment valued at up to £700K (EX VAT) to a previous advertised and awarded Single Source Non Qualifying Defence Contract with Edgar Brothers (“the Contractor”) for the procurement and delivery of an additional limited quantity of RS1 and RM1 systems including the provision of engineering support used in connection with weapon integration, platform integration and virtualised environment integration. The

original Contract was subject to a VTN under which the Authority invoked Regulation 7(1) (a) of the DSPCR to exempt the requirement from the DSPCR in conjunction with Regulation (6)(3a)(b).

The Contractor, as the sole approved UK distributor of the Original Equipment Manufacturer for the Units has access via the OEM to the technical designs, tools, knowledge and know-how necessary to supply and integrate the Units to UK MOD Government Furnished Equipment, the Authority does not own the rights authorising them to share the essential technical specifications that other economic providers require to redesign. The Units are safety critical to the operation of the platform, to safeguard interoperability across

the platform and virtual environment the Units must be supplied in accordance with the relevant technical specifications in order to meet operational safety requirements.

The Units to be developed and manufactured under this procurement are solely for the purpose of research and development and not with a view to quantity production to establish commercial viability or recovering R&D costs. The manufacture of these items equates to technology readiness level 6.

This requirement was subject to a VTN dated 28th July 2021 seeking to issue an amendment to the existing Contract to undertake the procurement of an additional quantity from the original supplier as the purchase is in addition to existing goods or an installation and a change of supplier would oblige the procurer to acquire goods having different technical characteristics resulting in incompatibility with the goods covered by the original contract.

• Ian Edgar (Liverpool) LimitedAwarded supplier Heather Close, Lyme Green Business Park, Macclesfield, SK11 0LR

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