Official UK procurement notice
The Provision of 12 months Technical Support to Joint Common Remote Viewing Terminal (JCRVT)
Authority: Ministry of Defence (Central government)·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe TacSys Service Executive (SE) within Defence Digital, part of the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD), intends to place with L3Harris Communications Systems UK Ltd a 12-month contract for the Technical Support to Joint Common Remote Viewing Terminal (JCRVT).
CPV: Integrated telecommunications services · Telecommunications services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The In-Service support to JCRVT shall provide: - detailed engineering/technical…
The In-Service support to JCRVT shall provide: - detailed engineering/technical support and guidance to the Authority on product design and operational use, maintenance and updates to JCRVT publications (Army Equipment Support Publications (AESPs), training courseware and Safety Assessment Report (SAR)), management of shared data store to assist with configuration control of documents, obsolescence management (down to component level) to assist the Authority with ensuring the equipment remains available to the User until any major refresh is planned or required; - provision of Post Design Services (PDS) via a tasking form arrangement, potentially to rectify an obsolescence issues and/or provision of technical information to another MOD Delivery Team with regards to the integration of JCRVT with other MOD capabilities.
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).
Published sub-criteria (1)
- Comrcl criterium - Social Value: 10
Published award criteria (1)
- Comrcl criterium - Social Value: 10%
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- 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
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 27 Apr 2023, 14:28 BST
- Last source update
- 4 Dec 2023, 16:55 GMT
- Authority reference
707684453- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-035709- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03c4bdFind 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 works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator due to absence of competition for technical reasons
- Published justification
It is considered that this contract can be placed using the Negotiated Procedure Without Prior Publication of a contract notice pursuant to Regulation 16 (1)(a)(ii) of the Defence and Security Public Contract Regulations 2011 (DSPCR)) due to technical reasons. Following the competitive procedure, the MOD awarded initial JCRVT manufacture and support contract to L3Harris in 2016 which is due to expire in October 2023. A new short-term replacement in-service technical support is required. L3Harris are the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) and have the specific technical skills, know-how and experience in providing the necessary Contractor Technical Support and Services to support and upgrade the equipment when required. They are also the only supplier who have access to the product design information to enable them to undertake any support and design modifications to the JCRVT system. Choosing to compete this requirement would introduce the possibility of contravention of the Defence Safety Authority (DSA) regulations as it would not be possible to ensure that another contractor could be sufficiently qualified within the requisite timeframes to undertake design and manufacture activities without including an associated unacceptable level of risk. This would result in the Authority not being able to fulfil safety requirements which are required to ensure the safe functioning of the User community. Due to the above reasons the requirement will continue as a single source requirement.
Publisher note: The Authority 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), the Authority 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.
Notice history
1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender- Buyer details updated4 Dec 2023, 16:55 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| L3HarrisSubcontracting: declared | £1,250,000 † | — | Awarded |
| L3Harris Communications Systems UK Limited | £628,557 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 035709-2023-707684453-1 · L3Harris Communications Systems UK Limited
- Signed
- 3 Nov 2023
- Value
- £628,557
- Status
- active
Contract 012147-2023-1 · L3Harris
- Signed
- 27 Apr 2023
- Value
- £1,250,000
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids · 1 electronic | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- Ministry of Defence, TacSys Service Executive (SE),Contracting authorityMinistry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisionsDefence
Bidders & participating suppliers
2 commercial parties on the notice- L3HarrisAwarded supplier
- L3Harris Communications Systems UK LtdAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.