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: Jo Dodd
  Contact: Jo Dodd
  DSTL, DSTL
  DSTL Porton Down, Building 5 G Floor, Porton Down
  Salisbury
  SP4 0JQ
  UNITED KINGDOM
  Email: jdodd@dstl.gov.uk
  Tel: +44 1980658259

• 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

    Development of the NGuru Cyber Situational Awareness System.

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

    Services

    Service category No 14: Research and development services [2] and evaluation tests

  • 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)

    Military Research & Technology. Development of the NGuru Cyber Situational Awareness System.

  • II.1.5) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

    73410000

• 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: 250 000 GBP

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

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

  The products involved are manufactured purely for the purpose of research, experiment, study or development under the conditions stated in the Directive: yes

  This is notice of an intention to award a contract on a single source basis to Northrop Grumman as this is building on initial concept funded work under a CDE themed call which requires further development & testing in order to inform decisions on the value of this concept in research.

• IV.2) Award criteria

  • IV.2.1) Award criteria

    Not provided

  • 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

    DSTLR1000073606

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

    Not provided

Section V: Award of contract

• 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

  Not provided

• V.4) Information on value of contract

  Not provided

• V.5) Information about subcontracting

  Not provided

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-2012925-DCB-4268213.

• VI.3) Procedures for appeal

  • VI.3.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures

    DSTL, DSTL

    Body responsible for mediation procedures

    DSTL, DSTL

  • VI.3.2) Lodging of appeals

    Not provided

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

    DSTL, DSTL

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

  25.9.2012