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Published 14 Sept 2022, 10:44 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Supply and Support of a Payload Data Ground Segment (PDGS)

Official notice

Authority: Ministry of Defence (Central government)

GoodsNegotiated without publication of a contract notice
Budget not disclosedValue not published
Awarded 14 Sept 2022
Awarded to AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE LIMITED

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) intends to award a contract to Airbus Defence and Space Limited for the supply of a Vision-1 Payload Data Ground Segment (Vision-1 PDGS) and associated IT infrastructure. The contractor will build, configure, test and deliver the system to DSTL for installation and final testing. Together with a support package until 31 March 2025.

CPV: Satellite-related communications equipment

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1
Delivery: UK
Extensions: (1) OneAtlas Basemap WMS Feed (from full PDGS delivery/acceptance to 31 March 2025) (2) WorldDem4Ortho licence (from full PDGS delivery/acceptance to 31 March 2025) (3) Sensor Plugins - Implementation of additional sensor plugins into DSTL PDGS deployment

What it takes to win
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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 more
How bids were scored
  • 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
14 Sept 2022, 10:44 BST
Last source update
14 Sept 2022, 10:44 BST
FTS notice number
2022/S 000-025750
Classification (CPV)
Satellite-related communications equipment
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-036849 Find 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

It is considered that this contract can be awarded using the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice, pursuant to Regulation 16(1) (a) (ii) of the UK Defence and Security Public Contract Regulations 2011 for the following Technical Reasons.

Technical Reasons:

The proposed solution is required to provide an established, sensor agnostic approach to satellite data processing, capable of full integration upon deployment with extant UK Government architectures.

Please note this is a Voluntary Transparency Notice, this contract has not been awarded yet.

Subject to DSTL receiving no notice during the standstill period of any intention to legally challenge the award process, DSTL aims to award the Proposed Contract after 12:00 on 26 September 2022 (10 calendar days after publishing)

DSTL reserves the right to amend any condition related to security of information to reflect any changes in national law or government policy. If any contract documents are accompanied by instructions on safeguarding classified information (e.g. a Security Aspects Letter), DSTL reserves the right to amend the terms of these instructions to reflect any changes in national law or government policy, whether in respect of the applicable protective marking scheme, specific protective markings given, the aspects to which any protective marking applies or otherwise. The link below to the Gov.uk website provides information on the Government Security Classification.

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Contracts signed 1latest 14 Sept 2022
Awarded toValueDateStatus
AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE LIMITEDSubcontracting: declared——Awarded

Contracts

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
———£4,000,000 – £4,000,000

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Ministry of Defence

Contracting authorityCentral GovernmentMinistry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisionsDefence Fareham, UKContact email

Dispute resolution & review bodies

  • Defence Science and Technology LaboratoryReview body Fareham

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.