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Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: United Kingdom

MOD Voluntary Transparency Notice
GB-Bristol: Supply of modified Medium weight Stressed Platform (MSP)

Region Codes: UKJ14
Section I: Contract Title
Contract Title: GB-Bristol: Supply of modified Medium weight Stressed Platform (MSP)

Section II: Issuing Branch / Organisation Details
Notice Address
Official Name: Ministry of Defence, Air Support, C17 Command Support and Airborne Equipment Project Team (CSAE PT)
Address: MOD Abbey Wood
Town: Bristol
Telephone: 030 679 86291
Email: Robert.Wilson157@mod.gov.uk
For attention of:
Postcode: BS34 8JH
Country: United Kingdom
Contact Point: Robert Wilson
Fax:
Internet Address:

Section III: Object of The Contract
Location of Works, place of delivery or of performance
Main Place of Performance or Delivery: Oxfordshire

Short description of the contract or purchase(s): The contract is for the manufacture and supply of 15 modified MSP systems and supporting emergent work such as design organisation technical advice and spares. This amendment increases the emergent work Limit of Liability.

Industry Codes:
39523000 – Parachutes.

Additional Information:
This notice is not a request for expressions of interest so please do not apply to be invited to tender. This notice advises that the Authority has decided to negotiate a contract with the named supplier on a single source basis, and is published for reasons of transparency. If you are interested in becoming a sub-contractor for this requirement, you should apply directly to the supplier named above.

Section IV: Identification Numbers
Contract Number: C17CSAE/0017

Section V: Selected supplier
Details of Selected supplier:

Official name: Airborne-Systems Limited
Postal Address: Llangeinor, Bridgend,
City:
Postcode: CF32 8PL
Country:
ContactPoint:
For Attention Of: Graeme Buckley
Telephone: +44 (0)1656 727013
Email:
Fax:
Internet Address:

Reason for Award: The C17 Command Support Airborne Equipment Project Team (C17CSAE PT) as part of the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) has a requirement for the provision of Through Life Support activities for the modified Medium-weight Stressed Platform (MSP), to include design organisation technical advice and provision of spares.

It is intended to award an amendment to Contract C17CSAE/0017 with Airborne Systems Limited (ASL) in order to increase the emergent work Limit of Liability by the value of £321,000. This will allow for the continuation of support services for the remaining contract duration until July 2018.

Justification For Non-Competitive Decision: It is considered that this Amendment can be placed using the Negotiated Procedure Without Prior Publication of a Contract Notice pursuant to Article 28(1)(e) of Directive 2009/81/EC (Regulation 16(1)(a)(ii) of the UK Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011) for technical reasons.

This is because ASL are the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), and have extensive design knowledge of the equipment. Only ASL hold the technical information relating to safety mechanisms on the equipment which ensure the safe functioning of the Armed Forces.
For these reasons, the specialist skills, know-how and technical information required to support the MSP would not be available from an alternative supplier.