The Repair, Maintenance and Modification of Various Line Replacement Units (LRUs) and Frame Electrical Layouts (FELs)

CPV: Repair and maintenance services of military vehicles

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

Administrative change

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

Yes (GPA)

Recurring procurement

Unspecified in notice

First published

4 Mar 2025, 21:18 GMT

Last source update

4 Mar 2025, 21:18 GMT

Authority reference

IRM23/7653

FTS notice number

2025/S 000-007937

Classification (CPV)

Repair and maintenance services of military vehicles

Delivery area

West Midlands (UKG21)

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

Published justification

The Ministry of Defence (the Authority) intends to enter into a service contract with Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land (RBSL) for the Repair, Maintenance and Modification of Various Line Replacement Units (LRUs) and Frame Electrical Layouts (FELs), for a period of 7 years. The estimated total contract value is £95.84M.

The contract will support the following platforms from the outset: Bulldog, Challenger 2, CRARRV, Panther, Titan, Trojan, Terrier, Warrior.

In accordance with regulation 4 of the Defence and Security Public Contracts (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (SI 2019/697) this procurement falls to be regulated under the provisions of the Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011 as amended (in particular by SI 2019/697 and SI 2020/1450). 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 16(1)(a)(ii) of the DSPCR 2011 for technical reasons.

RBSL are the Design Authority for each of the platforms listed above who own the design drawing/information, technical specifications and technical expertise required to repair and undertake proof testing of these articles to the acceptable specification.

Furthermore, the services to be provided under the contract can only be supplied by Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land (RBSL) because only RBSL has significant niche expertise, knowledge, and acquired specific experience in order to:

a) Provide services where significant safety and quality risks are associated with repairing items with which the Authority hold no technical information or repair specifications. RBSL are the only supplier who has access to the technical information or repair specifications to mitigate the safety and quality risks of the repair;

b) Undertake the repair and refurbishment which due to the interoperability requirements of the equipment; cannot be undertaken without access to the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) and Design Authority technical documentation, which is not available to third parties Accordingly no other party at this current time would be able to fully support this requirement; and

c) Undertake repair and maintenance activity for several specific safety critical items which RBSL are understood to have been nominated by the OEM as the only UK agent able to carry out such work.

In addition RBSL hold the proprietary data in relation to the maintenance of the FELs, including source-code and all related software. Furthermore, only RBSL has access to the technical specifications for the training aids, without which maintenance cannot be undertaken.

This notice is not a request for expressions of interest so please do not apply to be invited to tender. This notice advises that Ministry of Defence is to negotiate a single source 7 framework agreement with the named supplier and this notice is published for reasons of transparency only.

This requirement is covered under Supplier Cyber Protection; the Risk Assessment Reference (RAR) for this requirement is 241122B03.

1 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.

• Rheinmetall BAE Systems LandFramework contractor Hadley Castle Works, PO Box 106, Telford, West Midlands, TF1 9AY

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