Trials Support to Environmental Assessment of Countermeasures Bay

CPV: Research and Development services on security and defence materials

Procedure method

Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition

Legal basis

CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)

Procurement category

Services

Notice status

Awarded without competition

Procurement threshold

Unspecified in notice

Regulatory regime

Standard

Commercial structure

Stand-alone contract (no framework)

Competition type

Direct award (no call for competition)

GPA / WTO covered

Yes (GPA)

Recurring procurement

Unspecified in notice

First published

14 Mar 2023, 08:56 GMT

Last source update

27 Jun 2023, 15:47 BST

Authority reference

705527452

FTS notice number

2023/S 000-018282

Classification (CPV)

Research and Development services on security and defence materials

Delivery area

East of England (UKH2)South West (UKK11)

Official registry OCID

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Why no open competition

The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive

Published justification

The Lightning Delivery Team (LDT), part of the UK Ministry of Defence, intends to award a contract to Cranfield Aerospace Solutions Ltd (CAeS) to provide support to trials and update an assessment of the environmental conditions within the countermeasures bay. This will be conducted with representative instrumented rounds to produce a report on the environmental conditions.

It is considered that this requirement can be placed using the Negotiated Procedure without prior publication of a contract notice pursuant to Regulation 16 (1) (c) and 16(1)(a)(ii) of the UK Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011. This is an applied research contract where the Authority is conducting a trial to gain technical knowledge of the environmental conditions within the countermeasures bay. On the basis of technical grounds only CAeS have the expertise and requisite knowledge of the instrumented rounds to be used by the Authority having designed, manufactured, certified and maintained these instruments. The instrumented rounds need to be maintained to specific standards to ensure accurate data is recorded. As the OEM CAeS can provide the Authority with the assurance that the items will be safe to fly within the aircraft. Therefore, CAeS are the only economic operator who can ensure the instrumented rounds are calibrated correctly and can be released onto an aircraft thus meeting the Athuroity’s requirement. These trials are a continuation of trials previously conducted by CAeS. The Authority requires additional data to ensure that the report produced provides sufficient information to give the Authority confidence in its understanding of the environmental conditions.

• Cranfield Aerospace Solutions LimitedAwarded supplier Cranfield, East of England
• Cranfield Aerospace Solutions LimitedAwarded supplier Cranfield Aerospace Solutions Limited, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, MK43 0AL, Cranfield, East of England, MK43 0AL

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