Section one: Contracting authority/entity
one.1) Name, addresses and contact point(s)
Ministry of Defence
MOD Abbey Wood
Bristol
BS34 8JH
For the attention of
Bakewell Gregory
Email(s)
Gregory.Bakewell100@mod.gov.uk
Country
United Kingdom
Section two: Object of the contract
two.1) Description
two.1.1) Title attributed to the contract
701760450 - AHCSP/0005: Long Term Training and Support Service for Apache AH-64E Air Systems
two.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance
Services
Service category No 1: Maintenance and repair services
NUTS code
- UK - United Kingdom
two.1.4) Short description of the contract or purchase(s)
Full service support contract for the UK Apache AH-64E helicopters (and associated equipment) that will provide repair and maintenance, materiel support and design organisation services and maintainer, air- and ground-crew training (including management and maintenance of associated training equipment).
two.1.5) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
- 50210000 - Repair, maintenance and associated services related to aircraft and other equipment
two.2) Total final value of contract(s)
two.2.1) Total final value of contract(s)
Value: £285,915,332
Excluding VAT
Section four: Procedure
Type of procedure
Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
Justification for the award of the contract without prior publication of a contract notice
1) Justification for the choice of the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice
No tenders or no suitable tenders in response to: negotiated procedure competition
The works/goods/services can be provided only by a particular tenderer for reasons that are:
technical
connected with the protection of exclusive rights
The Apache Team, part of the UK Ministry of Defence, has placed a contract with Boeing Defence UK Limited (BDUK) for the long term support of the UK's Apache AH-64E, helicopters and associated maintainer, air- and ground-crew training.
It is considered that this Contract can be placed with BDUK using the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice pursuant to Article 28(1)(e) of Directive 2009/81/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (Regulation 16(1)(a)(ii) of the Defence and Security Public Contract Regulations 2011) for technical reasons and for reasons connected with the protection of exclusive rights.
BDUK, as the platform designer and manufacturer, owns various intellectual property rights connected to the Apache AH-64E variant that it is considered would be required by any third party to deliver the Contract requirements. BDUK has provided no licences to such intellectual property to any other economic operator in connection with the manufacture or support of the AH-64E variant.
Moreover, BDUK is the only economic operator with the necessary technical know-how, tools and means, and with the necessary access to essential technical information (including the manufacturing dataset, drawing set and software code to the AH-64E variant), required to provide the services to the required technical and safety standards. BDUK is also the lead system integrator for the USA's AH-64E variant and it is considered that any other economic operator would incur technical and integration risks brought about by a lack of access to wider systems design information
four.3) Administrative information
four.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract
Notice number: 2016/S 175-315471 of 10 September 2016
Voluntary ex ante transparency notice
Notice number: 2016/S 175-315471 of 10 September 2016
Section five: Award of contract
Contract No
AHCSP/0005: Long Term Training and Support Service for Apache AH-64E Air Sys
Title
701760450 - AHCSP/0005: Long Term Training and Support Service for Apache AH-64E Air Sys
five.1) Date of contract award decision
21 December 2021
five.2) Information about offers
Number of offers received
1
Number of offers received by electronic means
1
five.3) Name and address of economic operator in favour of whom the contract award decision has been taken
Boeing Defence UK
Dakota House, 630 Bristol Business Park, Coldharbour Lane
Bristol
BS16 1EJ
Email(s)
Telephone
+44 01329/223360
Country
United Kingdom
Internet address
five.4) Information on value of contract
Total final value of the contract
Value: £285,915,332
Excluding VAT
five.5) Information about subcontracting
The contract is likely to be sub-contracted: No