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Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: United Kingdom

UK-Bristol: Ammunition for firearms and warfare.

Section I: Contracting Authority
Title: UK-Bristol: Ammunition for firearms and warfare.
I.1)Name, Addresses And Contact Point(s)
Ministry of Defence, Weapons, Defence General Munitions (DGM) Project Team
#4115, Fir 1b, ABW, Bristol, BS34 8JH, United Kingdom
Tel. +44 3067983958, Email: DESWpnsDGM-Multiuser@mod.uk
Main Address:

I.2)Type Of Purchasing Body
Not Provided

Section II: Object Of The Contract
II.1)Description
II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority/entity: DGM/1830 Multi Purpose Rounds
II.1.2)Short description of the contract or purchase:
Ammunition for firearms and warfare. The Authority has a possible future requirement to procure the following amounts of Multi Purpose Rounds for use within training and operational roles with the UK Armed Forces. First Delivery would be detailed in any contract. The potential contract will be fixed for five years, with exact figures discussed and provided in the preceding September.

Financial Year Rounds Required
MP MPT 4MP/1T MP/MPT/API
2017 / 2018 21,600 0 57,600 180,000
2018 / 2019 21,600 0 93,600 180,000
2019 / 2020 21,600 3,000 86,400 180,000
2020 / 2021 21,600 3,500 86,400 180,000
2021 / 2022 14,400 3,500 86,400 180,000

It is the Authority?s intention to remove all forms of Cobalt from In-Service Rounds; as such, a Solution free of Cobalt, including projectiles, will be looked upon favourably.

Should this requirement proceed, a Contract Notice will be published and you will be invited to complete a Pre-Qualification Questionnaire, which will be measured against selected criteria in terms of Commercial and Technical requirements.

The Technical requirement will be base lined against the current in-service model and user requirements and include questions regarding: Battlefield Effect; Terminal Effect; Climatic and Environment; Munition Sensitivity; System and Design Safety; Human Factors; Deployability; Training; Sustainment; Policy and Legal; Capability Resilience and Reliability.

The weighting will be released within the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire to denote Key User Requirements, Mandatory, Priority 1 and Priority 2 requirements. Evidence will be required to demonstrate the ammunition can meet the Authority?s requirements set. Any additional trials the Authority require to be undertaken will require sample ammunition to be supplied at the contractor?s cost.

On award of the Contract, the supplying contractor shall provide support to ensure full qualification and maintenance of this qualification throughout the duration of the Contract. This includes, but is not limited to, MOD Safe and Suitability for Service (S3) to assess the ammunition suitability with regard to the Manufacture to the Disposal sequence (MOD may terminate the Contract if any safety concerns become apparent) Any resultant munitions procured as a result of this Prior Information Notice will be subject to the relevant Quality Assurance Standards.

The closing date for expressing your interest in this requirement and confirming you are capable of meeting it is 29th December 2016.

II.1.3)Common procurement vocabulary:
35331000 – Ammunition for firearms and warfare.

Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Type of Procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure (as stated in the original notice): Not Provided
IV.2)Administrative Information
IV.2.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority/entity: DGM/1830
IV.2.2)Notice reference for electronically submitted notice
Original Notice sent via: OJS eSender

Notice Reference: 2016 – 192861
IV.2.3)Notice to which this publication refers: Not Provided
IV.2.4)Date of dispatch of the original Notice: 29/11/2016

Section VI: Complementary Information
1: Complementary Information
VI.1)This notice involves: Correction

VI.3)Information to be corrected or added
VI.3.1) Modification of original information submitted by the contracting authority
VI.3.2) In the original Notice

VI.3.3)Text to be corrected in the original notice:

Place of text to be modified: II.1.2- Description of Contract or Purchase – last column (MP/MPT/API) instead of 0, it should be 180,000.

Instead of: 0

Read: 180,000

VI.3.4)Dates to be corrected in the original notice: Not Provided

VI.3.5)Addresses and contact points to be corrected:
Stephanie Macdonald
Bristol, United Kingdom

VI.3.6)Text to be added in the original notice: Not Provided
VI.4)Other 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.

Advertising Regime OJEU:- This contract opportunity is published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU),the MoD Defence Contracts Bulletin and www.contracts.mod.uk

VI.5)Date of dispatch: 29/11/2016