Provision of Base Situation Awareness Equipment and accompanying Support

Other additional information: The MoD is seeking Expressions of Interest, for an initial purchase of up to 14 Tethered Unmanned Air System (UAS).

The requirement is to supply equipment that can provide a persistent 360 degree situational awareness from an elevated position, with a minimum endurance of 12 hours.

Organic spares/repairs packs will also be required, along with a potential requirement to repair any equipment returned by the Authority as unserviceable and return it to serviceability.

Items that have been deemed Beyond Economic Repair and cannot be cannibalised will be disposed of in accordance with appropriate local legislation i.e.

Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations, 2013.

Approved (ISO 14001 certification) disposal specialists must be used as required.

The MoD will require a Train the trainer (T3) training course to deliver user/maintainer training.

This course should be in line with the Defence Systems Approach to Training (DSAT) standards.

The course should be no longer than 1 day in duration and held in the UK.

The contract is expected to commence in the March 2018 and run for 2 years, with the option to extend both procurement of additional UAS and the support services.

All interested suppliers must have ISO 9001 accreditation or equivalent.

Any winning company would be working on OFFICIAL SENSITIVE assets and would need to be Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checked.

Any COTS UAS supplied must not have built in functionally and their controlling software applications must not allow the collection of data relating to their use.

The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs).

However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement.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.

You can find the information on the Government Security Classification on the Gov.uk website.

The Authority will be conducting an evaluation of all PQQs received to reduce the number of companies invited to tender to a maximum of 6.

This requirement remains subject to funding and approvals clearance.

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