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Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: United Kingdom

1. Title: FLEET HELICOPTER SUPPORT UNIT (FHSU) – VERY SHORT DEADLINE
2. Awarding Authority: Ministry of Defence, GB Email: andy.davies171@mod.gov.uk. (Andy Davies)
3. Contract type: Service contract
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4. Description: The Awarding Authority is issuing a Request for Information to understand the availability, capability, and competitiveness of solutions for the provision of the below indicative requirement. The anticipated contract length is approximately 5 years with a potential option to extend.
Indicative Requirement – Fleet Helicopter Support Unit (FHSU)
The user requires a contracted crewed capability that can provide a medium-lift maritime Support Helicopter (SH) capability to support tasking by day and night and in all weather conditions within the Flag Officer Sea Training (FOST) South Coast Exercise Areas (SCXAs) and wider UK Flight Information Region (FIR).
In addition to the principal task of transporting personnel and/or freight to, from and between ships at sea in the SCXAs for FOST, a further two requirements are under consideration for inclusion within the future FHSU contract:
Provision of land-based maritime airborne Search and Rescue (SAR) service for Maritime Counter Terrorism (MCT) Force Generation training. This would encompass supporting up to six (6) UK based exercises per year, each of up to one (1) week duration in two calendar blocks occurring in Spring and Autumn each year and requiring up to 24hrs flying per exercise. This requires an assured ability to search for and recover individual persons from the sea at night, with an additional emphasis on being able to deliver them rapidly to specialist medical care in a timely manner.
A further emerging requirement may be to transport personnel and/or freight to the Queen Elizabeth Class (QEC) carrier and other UK based RN shipping based around an initial utilisation of circa 100hrs/yr.
Both these additional requirements are to be confirmed by Final Business Case (FBC).
For the full request for Information see attachments. Note also Clarification Question Nos. 1 – 16 and answers in the second to sixth attachments
5. CPV Code(s): 60424120, 35612500, 35612300
6. NUTS code(s): UKK, UKK1, UKK11
7. Main site or location of works, main place of delivery or main place of performance: South West (England), Gloucestershire, Wiltshire And Bristol/Bath Area, Bristol, City Of.
8. Reference attributed by awarding authority: Not provided.
9. Estimated value of requirement: Not provided.
10. Listing Deadline 6.6.2022 (12:00:00).
11. Address to which they must be sent: You must register or log in at Web: to participate in this tender.
12. Other information: Notes
By receiving this information, the MOD is not obligated to enter into contract and future procurement actions will be at MOD discretion. The Authority will not be liable to reimburse any costs incurred by any parties who respond to this notice. The Authority does not intend to provide any formal debriefs following receipt of responses. Furthermore, a response or non-response to this notice will not preclude involvement in future procurement activities for this requirement.
Please submit responses to the RFI by 1200hrs on 02/06/2022 to the Authority’s Commercial Officer via e-mail submission to andy.davies171@mod.gov.uk. Any matter relating to this RFI on which companies requires clarification, should be raised in the form of a Clarification Question (CQ), submitted to the Commercial Officer identified above by no later than 26/05/2022.
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Contract Start Date 31/10/2023
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