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UK-Bristol: training and simulation in aircrafts, missiles and spacecrafts

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General Information
Country:   United Kingdom
City/Locality:   BRISTOL
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:311932-2009
Publication Date:   Nov 10, 2009
Deadline:   Dec 14, 2009
Buyer:   ACQUISITION & COMMERCIAL TEAM (ACT), C&C
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   ACQUISITION & COMMERCIAL TEAM (ACT), C&C
BRISTOL
United Kingdom
Email:   Click here

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Notice Type: 2220 - Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities
EU Official Journal Publication: 216/2009, #311932-2009
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender

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CONTRACT NOTICE
Services
SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
I.1) NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S): Acquisition & Commercial Team
(ACT), C&C, ACT Commercial 4, FT 22 Group, Mail Point #7001, MOD Abbey
Wood, Attn: Danny Westwood, UK-Bristol BS34 8JH. Tel. +44 30679-80067.
E-mail: Danny.Westwood834@mod.uk. Fax +44 1179699963.
Further information can be obtained at: As in above-mentioned contact
point(s).
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for
competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained at:
As in above-mentioned contact point(s).
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: As in above-mentioned
contact point(s).
I.2) TYPE OF THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY AND MAIN ACTIVITY OR ACTIVITIES:
Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their
regional or local sub-divisions.
Defence.
The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting
authorities: no.
SECTION II: OBJECT OF THE CONTRACT
II.1) DESCRIPTION
II.1.1) Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:
Provision of Interim Rotary Wing Flying Training and Support Services at
RAF Shawbury and HQ Army Aviation Centre Middle Wallop.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Services.
Service category: No 27.
II.1.3) The notice involves: A public contract.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): Training and
simulation in aircraft, missiles and spacecraft. Repair, maintenance and
associated services related to aircraft and other equipment. Engineering
support services. Domestic services. Provision of an Interim Rotary Wing
Flying Training solution - sufficient and 'fit for purpose' single turbine
& twin turbine helicopter platforms and up to 50 flying instructors.
Provision of Support Services at RAF Shawbury and HQ Army Aviation Centre
Middle Wallop.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 80650000, 50210000,
71336000, 98514000.
II.1.7) Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
No.
II.1.8) Division into lots: No.
II.1.9) Variants will be accepted: No.
II.2) QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT
II.2.1) Total quantity or scope: As an interim Solution (IS) provide
sufficient and 'fit for purpose' Rotary Wing platforms for use by the
Defence Helicopter Flying School to execute Authority approved flying
training syllabi at RAF Shawbury Shropshire, RAF Valley Anglesey and HQ
Army Aviation Centre Middle Wallop. The IS must be fully operational
(including all instructors being fully trained and course syllabi fully
developed) from 1.4.2012 and will be for a period of up to 4 years. During
the 4th year there will be a staged phase-out of the IS platforms with a
corresponding staged phase-in of the future requirement which will be
provided by Ascent as part of the holistic UKMFTS solution for Flying
Training. It will be necessary to provide the full service for up to two
additional option years from 2015 should there be a delay in the provision
of the holistic solution followed by the phase-out year. The Authority
reserves the right to utilise any or all of these options should it be
necessary. On-site flight simulation will also be required to support this
requirement.
The IS mus be capable of providing up to 28 000 flying hours per annum on
the single-turbine helicopter platforms and 8.500 on the twin-turbine
helicopter platforms, through which, a programme of flying training for
Pilots and Rear Crew will be delivered. It is essential that both
cockpit-procedure training devices and full-motion flight simulation
facilities are provided on site as this will account for a large
proportion of the training programme. Both helicopter types will be
certified to undertake Night Vision Device (NVD) work and will be fitted
with covert external lighting devices that will permit night tactical
formation. Additionally, the aircraft will be fitted with a navigation
system and digital mapping display that is capable of off-aircraft mission
planning. The twin-turbine helicopter must be able to conduct SAR
operations including safe over-the-water operations with a cabin capable
of winching a stretcher-case aboard with up to 4 rearcrew operating in the
cabin.
Provision of up to 50 flying instructors will be required to operate
alongside current military instructors. A mixture of pilot and rearcrew
instructors will be needed and all are required to have CFS approved
qualifications, QHI and QHCI respectively. The cadre of instructors must
be capable of providing a range of instructional techniques including, but
not limited to, general handling, procedural instrument flying, tactical
and formation flying, low-level operations including NVD and Search &
Rescue.
In addition to the IS requirements, to provide a range of support services
to RAF Shawbury and Middle Wallop. It is envisaged that these services
will be required throughout the period of the IS flying training contract,
until full operating capability (FOC) of the UKMFTS flying training
solution is achieved. At the end of the IS and support services contract
it is probable that these two elements will be decoupled and separate
arrangements as yet to be decided will be made for the on-going support
services for RAF Shawbury and Middle Wallop.
The Statement of Requirement will contain the following sections - single
engine aircraft, multi engine aircraft, maintenance of both aircraft,
non-regular instructors (DHFS), ground school instructors, DHFS air
operations, engineering operations & records support facilities,
maintenance test pilot, aircraft mechanical support facilities, aircraft
avionic & electrical support facilities, aircraft escape & survival
equipment support, armament support facilities, general engineering
support services operations & records, ground radio services, mechanical
transport operations & maintenance, air traffic countrol simulator
maintenance, supply support, domestic services, Central ATC School Flight
Simulator operators, contingency planning, general management &
administration.
MOD reserves the right to employ a Reverse Auction for the procurement of
these services. Additionally, potential bidders are to note that should
there be no effective competition for these services the MOD reserves the
right to use non-competitive pricing techniques such as No Acceptable
Price No Contract (NAPNOC) in order to ensure value for money. Any
potential bidder must therefore be prepared to move quickly from a
competitive route to a non-competitive route in this procurement process.
Estimated value excluding VAT: 180 000 000 GBP.
II.2.2) Options: Yes.
Description of these options: Two one year options.
II.3) DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION: Starting:
1.4.2012. Completion: 31.3.2016.
SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION
III.1) CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE CONTRACT
III.1.1) Deposits and guarantees required: N/A.
III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or
reference to the relevant provisions regulating them: N/A.
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to
whom the contract is to be awarded: N/A.
III.1.4) Other particular conditions to which the performance of the
contract is subject: Yes.
Standard MOD Conditions of Contract.
III.2) CONDITIONS FOR PARTICIPATION
III.2.1) Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements
relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers: Information and
formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: N/A.
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity: Information and formalities
necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: (a) Appropriate
statements from banks or, where appropriate, evidence of relevant
professional risk indemnity insurance
(b) The presentation of balance-sheets or extracts from the
balance-sheets, where publication of the balance-sheet is required under
the law of the country in which the economic operator is established
(c) A statement of the undertaking's overall turnover and, where
appropriate, of turnover in the area covered by the contract for a maximum
of the last three financial years available, depending on the date on
which the undertaking was set up or the economic operator started trading,
as far as the information on these turnovers is available.
III.2.3) Technical capacity: Information and formalities necessary for
evaluating if requirements are met:
(a) A list of the works carried out over the past five years, accompanied
by certificates of satisfactory execution for the most important works.
These certificates shall indicate the value, date and site of the works
and shall specify whether they were carried out according to the rules of
the trade and properly completed. Where appropriate, the competent
authority shall submit these certificates to the contracting authority
direct
(b) A list of the principal deliveries effected or the main services
provided in the past three years, with the sums, dates and recipients,
whether public or private, involved. Evidence of delivery and services
provided shall be given: - where the recipient was a contracting
authority, in the form of certificates issued or countersigned by the
competent authority, - where the recipient was a private purchaser, by the
purchaser's certification or, failing this, simply by a declaration by the
economic operator
(c) An indication of the technicians or technical bodies involved, whether
or not belonging directly to the economic operator's undertaking,
especially those responsible for quality control and, in the case of
public works contracts, those upon whom the contractor can call in order
to carry out the work
(d) A description of the technical facilities and measures used by the
supplier or service provider for ensuring quality and the undertaking's
study and research facilities
(e) Where the products or services to be supplied are complex or,
exceptionally, are required for a special purpose, a check carried out by
the contracting authorities or on their behalf by a competent official
body of the country in which the supplier or service provider is
established, subject to that body's agreement, on the production
capacities of the supplier or the technical capacity of the service
provider and, if necessary, on the means of study and research which are
available to it and the quality control measures it will operate
(f) The educational and professional qualifications of the service
provider or contractor and/or those of the undertaking's managerial staff
and, in particular, those of the person or persons responsible for
providing the services or managing the work
(h) A statement of the average annual manpower of the service provider or
contractor and the number of managerial staff for the last three years
(j) An indication of the proportion of the contract which the services
provider intends possibly to subcontract.
III.2.4) Reserved contracts: No.
III.3) CONDITIONS SPECIFIC TO SERVICES CONTRACTS
III.3.1) Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession:
No.
III.3.2) Legal entities should indicate the names and professional
qualifications of the staff responsible for the execution of the service:
No.
SECTION IV: PROCEDURE
IV.1) TYPE OF PROCEDURE
IV.1.1) Type of procedure: Restricted.
IV.2) AWARD CRITERIA
IV.2.1) Award criteria: The most economically advantageous tender in
terms of the criteria stated in the specifications, in the invitation to
tender or to negotiate or in the descriptive document.
IV.2.2) An electronic auction will be used: No.
IV.3) ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
IV.3.1) File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:
ACT/01418.
IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: No.
IV.3.4) Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
14.12.2009 - 09:00.
IV.3.6) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be
drawn up: English.
SECTION VI: COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
VI.1) THIS IS A RECURRENT PROCUREMENT: No.
VI.2) CONTRACT RELATED TO A PROJECT AND/OR PROGRAMME FINANCED BY EU
FUNDS: No.
VI.3) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Suppliers interested in working with the
Ministry of Defence should register on the MOD Supplier Information
Database (SID) Register, available at www.contracts.mod.uk. The MOD SID is
a database of active and potential suppliers available to all MOD and UK
Defence procurement personnel, and is the main supplier database of MOD
Procurement organisations. Please note: the registration and publication
of a company profile on the MOD SID does not mean or imply that the
supplier has in any way been vetted or approved by the MOD. Suppliers
wishing to compete for advertised MOD contracts must respond to any
specific call for competition by submitting a separate expression of
interest in accordance with the instructions of the purchasing
organisation.
Advertising Regime OJEU:- These contract opportunities are published in
the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) and the MoD Defence
Contracts Bulletin. The award of any subsequent contract arising from such
requirements is subject to the Public Contract Regulations 2006. Where
advertising is necessary in the OJEU and the DCB, the content of the two
adverts must be exactly the same. Tracker Reference:
TKR-2009116-DCB-1284635 GO Reference: GO-2009116-DCB-1284636.
VI.4) PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL
VI.4.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures: Acquisition & Commercial
Team (ACT), C&C, ACT Commercial 4, FT 22 Group, Mail Point #7001, MOD
Abbey Wood, UK-Bristol BS34 8JH. E-mail: Danny.Westwood834@mod.uk. Tel.
+44 30679-80067. Fax +44 117969963.
VI.5) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 6.11.2009.
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