Tender: Bristol: specialist vehicles

UK-Bristol: specialist vehicles

2009/S 32-046827

CONTRACT NOTICE

Supplies

SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY

I.1) NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S):

Address: Organisation: Specialist and Utility Vehicles IPT, DE&S,

Yew 1C #1152 MOD Abbeywood

, Contact: LEPST 8, Attn: Becky Pearce, Country code: UK-Bristol Postal code: BS34 8JH. Tel. +44 3067937678. E-mail: DESLEComrcl-LEPST8@mod.uk. Fax +44 3067931902.

Further information can be obtained at: As in above-mentioned contact point(s).

Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained at: As in above-mentioned contact point(s).

Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: As in above-mentioned contact point(s).

I.2) TYPE OF THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY AND MAIN ACTIVITY OR ACTIVITIES:

Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local sub-divisions.

Defence.

The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: no.

SECTION II: OBJECT OF THE CONTRACT

II.1) DESCRIPTION
II.1.1) Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:

Light Protected Patrol Vehicle (LPPV).

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

Supplies.

Purchase.

II.1.3) The notice involves:

A public contract.

II.1.4) Information on framework agreement:
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s):

The Specialist and Utility Vehicles (SUV) IPT has a potential future requirement for the supply of up to 400 Light Protected Patrol Vehicles (LPPV) to be production ready in 2010 and delivery into service in 2011. SUV IPT would welcome information from Industry on current products available now or under development that could meet this demanding requirement.

The LPPV will be a wheeled vehicle with an estimated gross vehicle weight of around 6 to 7 tonnes, capable of carrying up to 6 crew (2+4), integrated with a range of communication and electronic equipment providing protected mobility. LPPV will replace in-service light legacy platforms based on the Land Rover based SNATCH vehicle. Additionally, the platform may be used as the basis for the replacement to Land Rover WMIK.

The vehicle must provide the optimum levels of protection against a number of known and emerging threats of a varied nature including Ballistic, Blast, Mine and Fragmentation. As a guide the requirements for protection should be a minimum of level 2 ballistic and level 2 blast as detailed in STANAG 4569.

LPPVs are principally required for a wide range of patrol tasks and are normally expected to operate on roads and rough tracks and trails in urban, semi-urban and rural environments; they need to be sufficiently agile to provide high cross country mobility. To achieve the desired levels of urban manoeuvrability the vehicle will ideally have a width less than 2m and a turning circle less than 12m.

A pre-qualification questionnaire including draft requirements document will be made available to Industry following an initial down selection activity, which will provide more details of the requirement. Certain details within the document will be protectively marked (e.g equipment to be integrated into the vehicle) and will therefore only be available to potential contractors or their sub-contractors who hold, or are prepared and able to obtain, appropriate UK or equivalent national security accreditation.

The LPPV programme is currently funded to identify and develop solutions that have a potential to meet an Urgent Operational Requirement in mid 2010.

Depending on the technical feasibility of responses to this advert a programme will be formalised under normal UOR procurement procedures.

This advert is a risk reduction measure to investigate the possible options available to replace in-service legacy vehicles.

Expressions of interest may be submitted in writing and should include comprehensive vehicle technical specifications.

II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV):

CPV code: "Specialist vehicles">34114000 .

II.1.7) Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):

No.

II.1.8) Division into lots:

No.

II.1.9) Variants will be accepted:

No.

II.2) QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT
II.2.1) Total quantity or scope:

Estimated value excluding VAT:

Range: between 685 000 and 5 000 000 GBP.

II.2.2) Options:

No.

II.3) DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION:

SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION

III.1) CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE CONTRACT
III.1.1) Deposits and guarantees required:
III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions regulating them:

Standard MOD payment processes.

III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
III.1.4) Other particular conditions to which the performance of the contract is subject:

No.

III.2) CONDITIONS FOR PARTICIPATION
III.2.1) Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers:
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity:
III.2.3) Technical capacity:
III.2.4) Reserved contracts:

No.

III.3) CONDITIONS SPECIFIC TO SERVICES CONTRACTS
III.3.1) Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession:

No.

III.3.2) Legal entities should indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff responsible for the execution of the service:

No.

SECTION IV: PROCEDURE

IV.1) TYPE OF PROCEDURE
IV.1.1) Type of procedure:

Restricted.

IV.1.2) Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate:
IV.1.3) Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue:
IV.2) AWARD CRITERIA
IV.2.1) Award criteria:

The most economically advantageous tender in terms of the criteria stated in the specifications, in the invitation to tender or to negotiate or in the descriptive document.

IV.2.2) An electronic auction will be used:

Yes.

Yes. A Reverse Auction, conducted using electronic means, may be used as part of the procurement process for this requirement. Specific relevant information on Reverse Auction usage will be given in the Invitation to Tender.

IV.3) ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
IV.3.1) File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:

SUVC1/0213.

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

No.

IV.3.3) Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document:
IV.3.4) Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:

17.3.2009 - 16:00.

IV.3.5) Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates:

15.6.2009.

IV.3.6) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up:

English.

IV.3.7) Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender:
IV.3.8) Conditions for opening tenders:

SECTION VI: COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

VI.1) THIS IS A RECURRENT PROCUREMENT:

No.

VI.2) CONTRACT RELATED TO A PROJECT AND/OR PROGRAMME FINANCED BY EU FUNDS:

No.

VI.3) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Advertising Regime: DCB/OJEU.

IPT: Specialist Utility Vehicles (SUV).

QA Standards: QA certification to be established at PQQ stage Tracker Reference: TKR-2009213-DCB-782652 GO Reference: GO-2009213-DCB-782653.

VI.4) PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL
VI.4.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures:

Address: URL: http://.

Body responsible for mediation procedures:

Address: URL: http://.

VI.4.2) Lodging of appeals:
VI.4.3) Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained:

Address: URL: http://.

VI.5) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE:

13.2.2009.