Official UK procurement notice
The Supply of the Falcon Training Service (WANT)
Authority: Ministry of Defence (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Supply of the Falcon Training Service (Wide Area Network Training - WANT)
CPV: Staff training services · Technical training services · Training and simulation in military electronic systems · Training programme services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1WANT is essential in providing and maintaining both the Royal SIGNALS (Army) and RAF…
WANT is essential in providing and maintaining both the Royal SIGNALS (Army) and RAF with trained personnel to deploy the Falcon communications network. The Falcon network provides backbone communications across Defence on operations.
WANT requires Contractor (White Fleet) provided support to deliver the required trained capability for both Air and Land Forces. The Military (Green Fleet) alone cannot support the throughput of students in the time required. Green Fleet equipment is limited in its availability and in the number of students that can be trained simultaneously, unlike the White Fleet Training Equipment that replicates the Green Fleet equipment system elements through emulation on a classroom networked personal computer. The current training solution also provides a separate capability in a classroom to support Crypto training.
The Falcon syllabus and courseware for WANT is owned by the MoD.
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
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
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 25 Mar 2024, 15:54 GMT
- Last source update
- 25 Mar 2024, 15:54 GMT
- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-009685- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-044c95Find 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 protection of exclusive rights, including intellectual property rights
- Published justification
It is considered that this Contract can be placed using the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contact notice pursuant Regulation 16(1)(a)(ii) of the Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011 for technical reasons. This is because only BAE has the necessary equipment and technical expertise, knowledge and skill in the complex Falcon SST system to support and upgrade the system immediately from contract award to the standard required by the Authority.
Any delay to, and/or reduction in, service standard represents a significant risk for delivery. FALCON as a capability is currently deployed on numerous operations and failure to deliver sufficient trained personnel would have significant impact to UK MOD’s ability to meet its operational outputs, would have a detrimental effect on the maintenance of the capability and UK MOD’s relationship with its allies.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAE Systems Digital IntelligenceSubcontracting: declared | £4,950,000 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
The Supply of the Falcon Training Service (WANT) · BAE Systems Digital Intelligence
- Signed
- 25 Mar 2024
- Value
- £4,950,000
- Status
- active
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Air CommercialReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- BAE Systems Digital IntelligenceAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.