This notice is covered by: Directive 2009/81/EC(Defence)

Section I: Contracting authority/entity

• I.1) Name, addresses and contact point(s)

  For the attention of: Iain McLean
  DE&S Commercial, DE&S
  Level 2, Kentigern House, 65 Brown Street
  Glasgow
  G2 8EX
  UNITED KINGDOM
  Email: DES-Comrcl-CC-HOCS-CM8a@mod.uk
  Tel: +44 1412243995
  Fax: +44 1412242669

• I.2) Type of the contracting authority

  Not provided

• I.3) Main activity

  Not provided

• 1.4) Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities/entities

  The contracting authority/entity is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities/entities: no

Section II: Object of the contract

• II.1) Description

  • II.1.1) Title attributed to the contract

    Provision of technical support to Submarine Enterprise Performance Programme (SEPP).

  • II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance

    Services

    Service category No 16: Management consulting services [3] and related services

    NUTS code UK

  • II.1.3) Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS)

    Not provided

  • II.1.4) Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

    Business and management consultancy services. Business and management consultancy services. Provision of Project Support to the Submarine Enterprise Performance Programme (SEPP).

  • II.1.5) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

    79410000

• II.6) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

  Not provided

• II.2) Total final value of contract(s)

  • II.2.1) Total final value of contract(s)

    Value: 955 223 GBP

    Excluding VAT

Section IV: Procedure

• IV.1) Type of procedure

  Not provided

• Award of a contract without prior publication of a contract notice in the Official Journal of the European Union (in the cases listed in Section 2 of Annexes D1, D2 or D3 as appropriate)

  Justification for the choice of the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice in the OJEU in accordance with art. 28 of Directive 2009/81/EC

  No tenders or no suitable tenders in response to: negotiated procedure with prior call for competition

  The works/goods/services can be provided only by a particular tenderer for reasons that are: technical

  The MoD is proposing to award a contract to Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP under the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice for the continued provision of project support to the Submarine Enterprise Performance Programme (SEPP) on the basis that, for technical reasons, Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP is the only economic operator capable of fulfilling this requirement (Regulation 16(1)(ii) of the Defence and Security Public Contract Regulations). The MoD Submarine Operating Centre (SMOC) has an urgent requirement for the continued provision of project support to SEPP.

  The SMOC is currently preparing a competitive procurement for a long term programme and project support partnership role through which future project support requirements are likely to be procured. Announcements will be published separately in due course.

  In the meantime, continuing project support is now required to support SMOC activities, by providing independent and specific support to develop the commercial construct and details such as terms, risk, incentivisation and negotiation strategies, and enterprise arrangements in respect of the collabarotive Submarine Enterprise and the bi-lateral Foundation, product and programme arrangements.

  The project support services are currently provided by Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP who were appointed following a call-off under the framework agreement for technical support (FATS3) which was competed under the Public ContractsRegulations 2006 and placed in April 2009. In April 2012 a Business and management Consultancy Services Contract was placed with Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP for six months to cover the interim period until the project support partner role is competed. That contract with Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP expires on 24.10.2012. There is a continuing requirement for these project support services for a further period of about six months until the new project support partner is appointed. A supplier would require an in-depth knowledge and previous background in, and working practices at, both strategic and tacticallevel, in a conplex transformation programme with many interdependencies, bi-lateral and collaborative relationships and stringent timescales. The proposed procurement strategy is single source as Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP has been providing the service for 18 months and has developed the relevant know-how, knowledge, tools, and means necessary to perform the services in the time available. This includes an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the project background and working practices at, both strategic and tactical level, of a very complex transformation programme with many interdependencies, bi-lateral and collaborative relationships and stringent toimescales. Given the amount of established background, know-how, level of understanding and relevant experience required to conyinue to provide these services, by the time any new suppier was brought up to speed sufficiently and the necessary approvals for accessing a significant amount of highjly sensitive information by thirdparties were obtained, the new project support partnership wil have been appointed. Therefore, for the technical reasons set out above it is not possible to change suppiers at thuis stage given the short duration of the requiremet.

• IV.2) Award criteria

  • IV.2.1) Award criteria

    The most economically advantageous tender in terms of

    Technical. Weighting 60

    Price. Weighting 40

  • IV.2.2) Information about electronic auction

    An electronic auction will be used: no

• IV.3) Administrative information

  • IV.3.1) File reference number attributed by the contracting authority/entity

    CTLBC/2082

  • IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

    no

Section V: Award of contract

• Contract No: CTLBC/2082

• V.1) Date of contract award decision:

  Not provided

• V.2) Information about offers

  Not provided

• V.3) Name and address of economic operator in favour of whom the contract award decision has been taken

  PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
  1 Embankment Place
  London
  WC2N 6RH
  UNITED KINGDOM
  Tel: +44 2075835000
  Fax: +44 2078224652

• V.4) Information on value of contract

  Initial estimated total value of the contract

  Value: 955 223 GBP

  Excluding VAT

• V.5) Information about subcontracting

  The contract is likely to be sub-contracted: no

Section VI: Complementary information

• VI.1) Information about European Union funds

  The contract is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no

• VI.2) 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.

  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 GO Reference: GO-2012926-DCB-4271967.

• VI.3) Procedures for appeal

  • VI.3.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures

    DE&S Commercial, DE&S
    Level 2, Kentigern House, 65 Brown Street
    Glasgow
    G2 8EX
    UNITED KINGDOM
    Email: DES-Comrcl-CC-HOCS-CM8a@mod.uk
    Tel: +44 1412243995

  • VI.3.2) Lodging of appeals

    Not provided

  • VI.3.3) Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained

    Not provided

• VI.4) Date of dispatch of this notice:

  26.9.2012