Electronic Warfare Countermeasures Increment 1a

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

This PIN is for the Electronic Warfare Countermeasures (EWCM) project, which forms part of the MEWP Programme.

The purpose of this PIN is to invite potential suppliers to a period of market engagement prior to the commencement of a future competition for the requirement.

The aim of the market engagement is for the Authority to share key elements of the EWCM programme on a technical and commercial basis.

The Authority intends to use the feedback from the market engagement to further confirm our requirements and understand the cost and time drivers.

Following completion of the period of market engagement the Authority intends to commence a competitive procurement.

As part of this market engagement the Authority intends to share the following documents with interested participants.

The Authority believes that in order to deliver the capability required and to participate in market engagement the required scheduled technology offered should be at a current TRL level of 6 and above: • Market engagement paper containing question sets on key elements of the EWCM Programme, to be responded to in writing by industry; • DRAFT Indicative High Level Timeline; • DRAFT Systems Requirements Document; • DRAFT Platform Constraints Document; and • DRAFT Security Aspects Letter Suppliers who are interested in participating in the market engagement and receiving the above documents should write to Thomas Morgan at Thomas.Morgan120@mod.gov.uk to confirm their interest and to request further instruction.

Due to the security classification of this requirement, the Authority can only share documents with suppliers that have a UK postal address or who have access to the MOD’s Restricted LAN Interconnect (RLI) network.

Furthermore, supplier’s personnel engaged and working on this market engagement and who have access to this documentation must provide prior written confirmation to the Authority by their HR or security controller that where Security Check (SC) clearance is not held, a Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) check has been undertaken.

Prior to receiving the above documents, the Authority will require interested suppliers to sign a two-way Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA), the baseline form of which will be issued to you following your written expression of interest.

To allow for checks to take place you must provide the following information: a) your company name; and b) two (2) points of contact providing for each: • Full name • Date of birth • Phone Number • Nationality • Email Address • UK Postal address • RLI email address if available • Security clearance details (HR/Security controller point of contact).

The deadline for expressions to participate is 27thJanuary 2022.

Any expression of interest received after this time may be rejected at the Authority’s sole discretion.

Indicative market engagement timeline: Completion Date Activity 01/02/22 Responses back from Industry and NDAs signed 02/02/22 Authority release RFI 01/03/22 Industry review and submit responses 08/03/22 F2F meetings with industry completed 15/03/22 Authority review of responses complete Additional Information: Suppliers interested in working with the Ministry of Defence should register on the MOD Supplier Information Database (SID) Register, available at www.contracts.mod.uk.

The MOD SID is a database of active and potential suppliers available to all MOD and UK Defence procurement personnel, and is the main supplier database of MOD Procurement organisations.

Please note: the registration and publication of a company profile on the MOD SID does not mean or imply that the supplier has in any way been vetted or approved by the MOD.

Suppliers wishing to compete for advertised MOD contracts must respond to any specific call for competition by submitting a separate expression of interest in accordance with the instructions of the purchasing organisation.

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. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-security-classifications