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MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

Provision of PTS8000 Test Equipment - Voluntary Ex-Ante Transparency Notice

Laboratory EquipmentCPV 38540000
Value£323k
Awarded31 Dec 2019
Published28 May 2020
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£323ktotal contract value
median £70k
this tender£0£588k

This is a large award for Laboratory & Precision Equipment — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 9,869 valued Laboratory & Precision Equipment tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Voluntary Transparency Notice- FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY Apache Capability Sustainment Programme, part of the UK Ministry of Defence ("MoD"), intends to award a contract to Ultra Electronics Limited ("Ultra Electronics") for the purchase of three (3) PTS8000 equipment sets for a duration of 1 year starting in January 2020 .

The contract value is anticipated to be three hundred twenty five thousand pounds sterling (£325,000) ex VAT.

It should be noted that this value is to be used for informative purposes only for providing the scope of the requirement by value as required.

It is considered that this contract can be placed using the Negotiated Procedure Without Prior Publication of a Contract Notice pursuant to Article 28(1)(e) of Directive 2009/81/EC (Regulation 16(1)(a)(ii) of the UK Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011) because competition is absent for technical reasons.

This is because Ultra Electronics are the only economic operator that has access to the required designs, expertise or intellectual property to fulfil the requirement.

The equipment is critical to ascertaining airworthiness of the AH-64E platforms Defensive Aids Suite System and any other option would have to sub-contract to Ultra Electronics in order to fulfil this requirement, therefore it is considered that only Ultra Electronics are capable of providing the service required.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

It should be noted that this value

It should be noted that this value is to be used for informative purposes only for providing the scope of the requirement by value as required.

02

The equipment is critical to ascertaining airworthiness

The equipment is critical to ascertaining airworthiness of the AH-64E platforms Defensive Aids Suite System and any other option would have to sub-contract to Ultra Electronics in order to fulfil this requirement, therefore it is considered that only Ultra Electronics are capable of providing the service required.

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