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Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: United Kingdom

1. Title: Air Engineers Toolkit (AET) Application
2. Awarding Authority:
Ministry of Defence
MOD Abbey Wood, Elm 3B, #4342

Bristol
England
BS34 8JH
Contact: Ryan Miller
Email: ryan.miller731@mod.gov.uk
Phone:
URL:
3. Contract Type:
4. Description: MOD – DE&S Request for Information (RFI) – Air Engineers’ Toolkit (AET) Application

Deliver a comprehensive digital solution to support complex Air Safety Digital Services – access, workflow management, dashboard reporting, data migration and the integration into current systems within the Defence Equipment and Support environment.

Object of the Request for Information:

Purpose: To assess the core capabilities in the marketplace and whether those capabilities may meet the needs of this RFI.
Short description of requirement: Early Market Engagement to establish the solutions available to Defence Equipment and Support’s Air safety related digital application requirement.

This RFI is focused on digital solutions that could satisfy some (or all) of the technical elements of the programme.

Further seeking to get a better understanding of the costs associated with available options and market-based advice and intelligence to help direct our activities towards best practice.

Information Requested Disclaimer: The information contained within this RFI is requested to inform a potential future procurement strategy. No formal procurement process has been launched. Any resulting procurement will be conducted competitively, and all information provided in response to this RFI will be held in confidence.

Responses should be sent to Ryan.Miller731@mod.gov.uk and Laura.Crowe104@mod.gov.uk by 17:00 on 16 December 2022.

You must not take this Request for Information to mean confirmation that the Authority shall launch a procurement or award a contract for this requirement. The Authority is publishing this announcement without any commitment to issue a tender or place a contract. Accordingly, any expenditure, work or effort undertaken before contract award is a matter solely for the commercial judgement of potential suppliers.
5. CPV Codes:
72000000 – IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
48000000 – Software package and information systems
6. NUTS Codes: UKK11
7. Main Site or Location of Works, Main Place of Delivery or Main Place of Performance: South West
8. Reference Attributed by the Awarding Authority:
tender_336104/1146569
9. Estimated Value of Requirement: Not Provided
10. Start Date:
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Defence Equipment & Support Air Environment are seeking software solutions that will enable standardisation across business processes and development of a single application delivering a common interface for the workflow management and task tracking of Airworthiness activities for multiple Air Delivery Teams and associated stakeholder communities across the organisation, to satisfy Military Aviation Authority (MAA) regulations. Defence Equipment & Support are exploring the use of enterprise type product(s) that can be used in a MOD Cloud environment and are almost entirely configured with little or no customisation to better enable the vision of “One robust, evergreen, integrated, set of digitally enabled services, that provide world class delivery for Defence Equipment & Support.

Further details on the AET Overview and process modules can be found in the '20221114 Air Engineers Toolkit_RFI' and '20221114 Air Engineers Toolkit_RFI_Appendix' within the Opportunity Listing.
Opportunity Listing

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