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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Ministry of Defence, Ships, Salvage and Marine Operations (S&MO)

S&MOCB/8005 - Supply & Maintenance of a Deployable Operations ISO Container

Engineering & ArchitectureCPV 71000000 71300000 71330000 34000000 34200000 34220000 45000000 45200000 45220000 45222000
Value£2.0m
Awarded2 Nov 2020
Published21 Sept 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
£2.0mtotal contract value
median £95k
this tender£0£2.2m

This is a large award for Engineering & Architecture — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 33,646 valued Engineering & Architecture tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Other additional information: 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.

The link below to the Gov.uk website provides information on the Government Security Classification. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-security-classifications Advertising Regime OJEU:- This contract opportunity is published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU),the MoD Defence Contracts Bulletin and www.contracts.mod.uk The Salvage and Marine Operations (SALMO) Team, part of the Ministry of Defence (MOD) have a requirement for the supply of one (1) maritime deployable habitable Operations ISO Container which shall be accredited to SECRET, in addition to the procurement, installation and integration of multiple IT systems into the container and the containers ongoing maintenance.

The ISO container must be able to be loaded and unloaded and must be transportable by land and sea and conform to the relevant maritime standards for land and maritime transport.

The Authority require a UK List X supplier to deliver this requirement.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The ISO container must be able

The ISO container must be able to be loaded and unloaded and must be transportable by land and sea and conform to the relevant maritime standards for land and maritime transport.

02

The Authority require a UK List X

The Authority require a UK List X supplier to deliver this requirement.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

2 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

List X / facility security clearancePersonnel clearance & vetting
The Authority require a UK List X supplier to deliver this requirement.
Safeguarding policyPolicies & commitments
If any contract documents are accompanied by instructions on safeguarding classified information (e.g.

Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.

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Stage
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