Section one: Contracting authority/entity
one.1) Name, addresses and contact point(s)
Ministry of Defence
Building 5, Room G-02, Porton Down
Salisbury
SP4 0JQ
For the attention of
Craig Flynn
Email(s)
Country
United Kingdom
National registration number
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
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
one.4) Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities
The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities:
No
Section two: Object of the contract
two.1) Description
two.1.1) Title attributed to the contract
Remote Weapons Stations, Weapons and Ammunition
two.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance
Supplies
Purchase
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance
Porton Down, Salisbury
NUTS code
- UK - United Kingdom
two.1.4) Short description of the contract or purchase(s)
The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), part of the UK Ministry of Defence previous issued a VTN on 28th July 2021 and further to this, has now awarded an amendment valued at up to £700K (EX VAT) to a previous advertised and awarded (October and December
2020) Single Source Non-Qualifying Defence Contract with Edgar Brothers (“the Contractor”) for the
procurement and delivery of an additional limited quantity of RS1 and RM1 systems including the provision of engineering support used in connection with weapon integration, platform integration and virtualised environment integration. The original Contract was subject to a VTN under which the Authority invoked Regulation 7(1) (a) of the DSPCR to exempt the requirement from the DSPCR in conjunction with Regulation (6)(3a)(b).
two.1.5) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
- 35300000 - Weapons, ammunition and associated parts
two.2) Total final value of contract(s)
two.2.1) Total final value of contract(s)
Value: £656,252.78
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
The products involved are manufactured purely for the purpose of research, experiment, study or development: yes
Additional works/deliveries/services are ordered under strict conditions: yes
The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), part of the UK Ministry of Defence has awarded an amendment valued at up to £700K (EX VAT) to a previous advertised and awarded Single Source Non Qualifying Defence Contract with Edgar Brothers (“the Contractor”) for the procurement and delivery of an additional limited quantity of RS1 and RM1 systems including the provision of engineering support used in connection with weapon integration, platform integration and virtualised environment integration. The
original Contract was subject to a VTN under which the Authority invoked Regulation 7(1) (a) of the DSPCR to exempt the requirement from the DSPCR in conjunction with Regulation (6)(3a)(b).
The Contractor, as the sole approved UK distributor of the Original Equipment Manufacturer for the Units has access via the OEM to the technical designs, tools, knowledge and know-how necessary to supply and integrate the Units to UK MOD Government Furnished Equipment, the Authority does not own the rights authorising them to share the essential technical specifications that other economic providers require to redesign. The Units are safety critical to the operation of the platform, to safeguard interoperability across
the platform and virtual environment the Units must be supplied in accordance with the relevant technical specifications in order to meet operational safety requirements.
The Units to be developed and manufactured under this procurement are solely for the purpose of research and development and not with a view to quantity production to establish commercial viability or recovering R&D costs. The manufacture of these items equates to technology readiness level 6.
This requirement was subject to a VTN dated 28th July 2021 seeking to issue an amendment to the existing Contract to undertake the procurement of an additional quantity from the original supplier as the purchase is in addition to existing goods or an installation and a change of supplier would oblige the procurer to acquire goods having different technical characteristics resulting in incompatibility with the goods covered by the original contract.
four.3) Administrative information
four.3.1) File reference number attributed by the contracting authority
DSTL/AGR/01192/01
Section five: Award of contract
Contract No
DSTL/AGR/01192/01
five.1) Date of contract award decision
16 August 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
Ian Edgar (Liverpool) Limited
Heather Close, Lyme Green Business Park
Macclesfield
SK11 0LR
Country
United Kingdom
five.4) Information on value of contract
Initial estimated total value of the contract
Value: £700,000
Excluding VAT
Total final value of the contract
Value: £656,252.78
Excluding VAT
five.5) Information about subcontracting
The contract is likely to be sub-contracted: No
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