Contract

IRM16/1297 - Repair of the Challenger 2 Commanders Sighting System

  • Ministry of Defence

F18: Contract award notice for contracts in the field of defence and security

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-004163

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-04dcbd

Published 7 February 2025, 12:53pm



Section one: Contracting authority/entity

one.1) Name, addresses and contact point(s)

Ministry of Defence

Babcock Land Defence Limited, Building B15, MOD Donnington

Telford

TF2 8JT

For the attention of

IRM Procurement Repair Team

Email(s)

IRMProcurementRepairTeam@babcockinternational.com

Country

United Kingdom


Section two: Object of the contract

two.1) Description

two.1.1) Title attributed to the contract

IRM16/1297 - Repair of the Challenger 2 Commanders Sighting System

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

  • UKG21 - Telford and Wrekin

two.1.3) Information on framework agreement

The notice involves the establishment of a framework agreement

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

The Ministry of Defence (the Authority), has awarded a single source contract with Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land (RBSL) for the provision of Repair of the Challenger 2 Commanders Sighting System for a period of 3 (three) years.

Please note, this notice announces a Contract Award for the purposes of transparency only and is not a request for expressions of interest.

Please note, Babcock Land Defence Limited is acting as agent on behalf of the Ministry of Defence, in the first instance interested parties may contact Babcock with queries relating to this procurement.

two.1.5) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

  • 50630000 - Repair and maintenance services of military vehicles

two.2) Total final value of contract(s)

two.2.1) Total final value of contract(s)

Value: £3,470,848

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

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

technical

Babcock Land Defence Limited, acting as Agent to the UK Ministry of Defence, has negotiated a single source contract with Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land (RBSL) for the Repair of the Challenger 2 Commanders Sighting System.

Justification For Non-Competitive Decision: It is considered this requirement can be placed using the negotiated procedure without prior publication pursuant to Article 25(1)(a) of Directive 2009/81/EC (Regulation 16(1)(a)(i) of the Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011) due to the absence of suitable tenders in response to the previous restricted procedure reference 2017/S 225-469815. The UK Ministry of Defence received a single tender response and that tender was evaluated as being technically compliant.

four.2) Award criteria

four.2.1) Award criteria

Lowest price

four.2.2) Information about electronic auction

An electronic auction has been used: no

four.3) Administrative information

four.3.1) File reference number attributed by the contracting authority

IRM16/1297

four.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

Voluntary ex ante transparency notice

Notice number: 2018/S 049-109589 of 9 March 2019


Section five: Award of contract

Contract No

IRM16/1297

Title

IRM16/1297 - Repair of the Challenger 2 Commanders Sighting System

five.1) Date of contract award decision

18 June 2024

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

Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land (RBSL)

Hadley Castle Works, PO Box 106, Telford, Shropshire

Telford

TF1 6QW

Email(s)

karl.oliver@rbsl.com

Country

United Kingdom

five.4) Information on value of contract

Total final value of the contract

Value: £3,470,848

Excluding VAT

If annual or monthly value

Number of years: 3


Section six: Complementary information

six.1) Information about European Union funds

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

six.3) Procedures for appeal

six.3.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures

Babcock Land Defence Limited

Building B15, MOD Donnington+

Telford

TF2 8JT

Email(s)

irmprocurementrepairteam@babcockinternational.com

Country

United Kingdom