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Ministry of Defence

CHC/647 TIESE CF Contract Award Notice

Repair & MaintenanceCPV 50000000 50200000 50210000
Value£413k
Deadline21 Dec 2021
Published3 Oct 2022
RegionWales
Timeline
Published 3 Oct 2022ClosedCloses 21 Dec 2021
Contract value in context
£413ktotal contract value
median £130k
this tender£0£4.8m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Repair & Maintenance band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 15,278 valued Repair & Maintenance tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

A Contract Award Notice for the CHC/647 TIESE Contract.

This is a single source contract for the provision of Engineering Support, Technical Documents, Repairs and Spares in respect of Chinook Platform's existing Troop Insertion & Extraction System Equipment (TIESE).

As IrvinGQ is the manufacturer of the TIESE system they are the only contractor capable of delivering the requirement, meaning a single source procedure prevailed over competition on technical grounds (further information on technical justification is found below): IrvinGQ previously confirmed that it is not prepared to share or license the use of that proprietary information outside of the Company and the UK Ministry of Defence does not have a right to obtain the necessary documentation from IrvinGQ.

The aforementioned skills, technical data, drawing and design information are necessary for the performance of the requirement.

Furthermore, only IrvinGQ holds the level of certification (under the Authority's Design Approved Organisation (DAOS) and Maintenance Approved Organisation (MAOS) Schemes) necessary to carry out the activities that are required in order to meet the Military Aviation Authority's Regulatory Articles applicable to TIESE.

It is not possible for another company to obtain the relevant level of certification without access to the skills, knowledge and technical information that only IrvinGQ hold.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

This is a single source contract

This is a single source contract for the provision of Engineering Support, Technical Documents, Repairs and Spares in respect of Chinook Platform's existing Troop Insertion & Extraction System Equipment (TIESE).

02

As IrvinGQ is the manufacturer of

As IrvinGQ is the manufacturer of the TIESE system they are the only contractor capable of delivering the requirement, meaning a single source procedure prevailed over competition on technical grounds (further information on technical justification is found below):.

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Stage
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