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LSL/MED/0151 - The Supply and Support of Blood and Plasma Storage Units

  • Leidos Supply Ltd

F15: Voluntary ex ante transparency notice

Notice identifier: 2023/S 000-025430

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-03f7ef

Published 30 August 2023, 11:55am



Section one: Contracting authority/entity

one.1) Name and addresses

Leidos Supply Ltd

Monarch Court, 8 The Brooms, Emersons Green

Bristol

Email

peter.obrien-2@uk.leidos.com

Country

United Kingdom

Region code

UK - United Kingdom

Internet address(es)

Main address

www.leidos-supply.uk

one.4) Type of the contracting authority

Body governed by public law

one.5) Main activity

Defence


Section two: Object

two.1) Scope of the procurement

two.1.1) Title

LSL/MED/0151 - The Supply and Support of Blood and Plasma Storage Units

Reference number

LSL/MED/0151

two.1.2) Main CPV code

  • 33000000 - Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products

two.1.3) Type of contract

Supplies

two.1.4) Short description

Leidos Supply Ltd intends to award a single source framework for the provision of spare parts, ancillaries, capital equipment, servicing, training and software for the fleet of DBS Ltd Blood and Plasma Storage Units (BSUs) and Temperature Controlled Environments (TCEs) currently in service. The framework also includes the replacement of BSU/TCE devices considered Beyond Economic Repair (BER). The agreement will be for the duration of 3 years.

two.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

two.1.7) Total value of the procurement (excluding VAT)

Lowest offer: £640,000 / Highest offer: £1,600,000 taken into consideration

two.2) Description

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UK - United Kingdom

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

Team Leidos are proud to be delivering the logistics commodities and services transformation (LCS(T)) Delivery partner Contracts (LCS (T)/0001 dated 16.4.2015) on behalf of the UK Ministry of Defence (the 'Prime Contract'). Delivery of other parts of the LCS(T) contract are delivered by Leidos Europe Ltd (LEL) and other partners (together 'Team Leidos').

Please note all information provided to organisations or individuals that respond to this notice should be treated as Confidential, and not shared further without express written permission from Leidos Supply Ltd.

Negotiated procedure without prior publication

The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator for the following reason:

- The protection of exclusive rights, including intellectual property rights.

- for additional deliveries by the original supplier which are intended either as a partial replacement of supplies or installations or as the extension of existing supplies or installations where a change of supplier would oblige the contracting authority to acquire supplies having different technical characteristics which would result in incompatibility or disproportionate technical difficulties in operation or maintenance (Regulation 32(5)(b) of PCR 2015).

Explanation:

It is considered that this contract can be placed using the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice pursuant to Article 32(b)(ii) of Public Contract Regulations 2015. Under regulation 32 (2)(b)(ii) of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 using the negotiated procedure without prior publication when competition is absent for technical reasons.

The manufacturer (DBS Ltd) are the only provider authorised to create, replace, modify, repair and maintain the in service BSU/TCE MOTS devices, both safely and without altering the performance characteristics of the equipment. DBS Ltd hold all design rights and IP relating to the modified end product intended for use within operational environments.

two.2.11) Information about options

Options: No

two.2.13) Information about European Union Funds

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


Section four. Procedure

four.1) Description

four.1.1) Type of procedure

Negotiated without a prior call for competition

  • The products involved are manufactured purely for the purpose of research, experiment, study or development
  • The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator for the following reason:
    • protection of exclusive rights, including intellectual property rights
  • Additional deliveries by the original supplier

Explanation:

Leidos Supply Ltd intends to award a single source framework for the provision of spare parts, ancillaries, capital equipment, servicing, training and software for the fleet of DBS Ltd Blood and Plasma Storage Units (BSUs) and Temperature Controlled Environments (TCEs) currently in service. The framework also includes the replacement of BSU/TCE devices considered Beyond Economic Repair (BER). The agreement will be for the duration of 3 years.

It is considered that this contract can be placed using the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice pursuant to Article 32 of Directive 2014/24/EC of the European Parliament (Regulation 32(5)(b) of PCR 2015).

The manufacturer (DBS Ltd) are the only provider authorised to create, replace, modify, repair and maintain the in service BSU/TCE MOTS devices, both safely and without altering the performance characteristics of the equipment. DBS Ltd hold all design rights and IP relating to the modified end product intended for use within operational environments.

four.1.3) Information about a framework agreement

The procurement involves the establishment of a framework agreement

four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Yes


Section five. Award of contract/concession

Contract No

LSL/MED/0151

Title

The Supply and Support of Blood/ Plasma Storage Units

A contract/lot is awarded: Yes

five.2) Award of contract/concession

five.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract

4 January 2023

five.2.2) Information about tenders

The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: No

five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor/concessionaire

DBS Ltd

DBS Ltd, Unit 4, Star West, Westmead Trading Estate

Swindon

SN5 7SW

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code
  • UK - United Kingdom
The contractor/concessionaire is an SME

Yes

five.2.4) Information on value of contract/lot/concession (excluding VAT)

Lowest offer: £640,000 / Highest offer: £1,600,000 taken into consideration

five.2.5) Information about subcontracting

The contract/lot/concession is likely to be subcontracted


Section six. Complementary information

six.3) Additional information

The authority reserves the right to amend any condition related to security of information to reflect any changes in national law or government policy. If any contract documents are accompanied by instructions on safeguarding classified information (e.g. a security aspects letter), the authority reserves the right to amend the terms of these instructions to reflect any changes in national law or government policy, whether in respect of the applicable protective marking scheme, specific protective markings given, the aspects to which any protective marking applies, or otherwise. The link below to the Gov.uk website provides information on the Government Security Classification.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-security-classifications

six.4) Procedures for review

six.4.1) Review body

Leidos Supply Ltd

8 Monarch Court, The Brooms, Emersons Green

Bristol

BS16 7FH

Email

Peter.obrien-2@uk.leidos.com

Country

United Kingdom

six.4.2) Body responsible for mediation procedures

Leidos Supply Ltd

8 Monarch Court, The Brooms, Emersons Green

Bristol

BS16 7FH

Email

Peter.obrien-2@uk.leidos.com

Country

United Kingdom

six.4.4) Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained

Leidos Supply Ltd

8 Monarch Court, The Brooms, Emersons Green

Bristol

BS16 7FH

Email

peter.obrien-2@uk.leidos.com

Country

United Kingdom