Section one: Contracting authority/entity
one.1) Name, addresses and contact point(s)
Ministry of Defence
Defence Academy of the United Kingdom
Swindon
For the attention of
Hall Andrew
Email(s)
Country
United Kingdom
one.2) Type of the contracting authority
Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
one.3) Main activity
Defence
Section two: Object of the contract
two.1) Description
two.1.1) Title attributed to the contract
Collaborative Mission Manager
two.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance
Services
Service category No 3: Defence services, military defence services and civil defence services
two.1.4) Short description of the contract or purchase(s)
Joint Warfare is required to explore the full integrated capability of the Collaborative Mission Manager (CMM) suite, as a Multi Domain C2 Toolset. CMM is a product by currently in use with the US Department of Defence (DoD) under the name of Command and Control in the Information Environment (C2IE). It will also be able to support the requirement to communicate and transfer data with our main Bi-lateral partner and FVEYs community, a specified task under the Fully Networked Command, Control and Communication (FNC3) work strand.
two.1.5) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
- 72266000 - Software consultancy services
two.2) Total final value of contract(s)
two.2.1) Total final value of contract(s)
Value: 2,215,770 USD
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
UK Strategic Command (UKStratCom), part of the Ministry of Defence, "The Authority" intends to award a 12-month contract to the total value of $2,215,770 (USD) Ex VAT to Research Innovations Inc. to provide a Collaborative Mission Manager (CMM) tool in order to trial a Partnered Network Environment with the United States Department of Defence (US DoD). It is considered that this contract can be placed using the negotiated procedure without prior publication pursuant to Regulation 32(2)(b)(ii), Section 3 of Chapter 2 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 for Technical reasons.
Research Innovations Inc. CMM tool is currently the only solution on the market able to fulfil the Authority's interoperability requirements with US Department of Defence (DoD) systems in order to enable the collection, collation and sharing of operational data between the US DoD and the Authority.
four.3) Administrative information
four.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract
Voluntary ex ante transparency notice
Notice number: 2022/S 000-006386 of 8 March 2022
Section five: Award of contract
five.1) Date of contract award decision
23 March 2022
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
Research Innovations Incorporated (RII)
6363 Walker Lane, Suite #500
Alexandria, VA 22310
Country
United Kingdom
five.4) Information on value of contract
Total final value of the contract
Value: 2,215,770 USD
Excluding VAT
five.5) Information about subcontracting
The contract is likely to be sub-contracted: No
Section six: Complementary information
six.3) Procedures for appeal
six.3.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures
Ministry of Defence
Bristol
Country
United Kingdom
Body responsible for mediation procedures
Ministry of Defence
Bristol
Country
United Kingdom
six.3.3) Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained
Ministry of Defence
Bristol
Country
United Kingdom