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Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: United Kingdom

1. Title: COMMANDO FORCE MISSION PARTNER
2. Awarding Authority: Ministry of Defence, GB Email: scott.taggart107@mod.gov.uk. (Scott Taggart)
3. Contract type: Service contract
4. Description: Commando Force Mission Partner – RFI
The Contracting Authority is looking for information from industry to gain an awareness of companies that can help scale and support an experimental defence network architecture through the concept known as a “Mission Partner”. The intent is to enable the scaling, delivery and support of digital services.
The Contracting Authority requires a Mission Partner capability to demonstrate an Agile delivery team construct that offers the bridging of technology propositions from experimentation through to in-service delivery and enable rapid updates to a system baseline. This is summarised as:
A flexible support arrangement to a requirement which is able to iterate, reacting to evolving adversary threats and the availability of new technology.
Support the scaling of EVE and its transition into service
Rapid integration of new changes into the baseline
Project is initially for 3 years as a Mission Partner demonstrator, with options to extend dependent on performance of the construct.
The first candidate for the Mission Partner is concerned with a Tactical Communications network called EVE which has been designed and built by the Navy.
EVE is a C5IS requirement for the Commando Force and aligned Very High Readiness Specialist Users of which the Navy wish to retain elements of the System Design Authority role. Based on the current draft IP Strategy it is likely that the Navy will also release IPR under licence.
The contracting authority recognise that companies may not be able to offer a complete end-end solution or a full set of UK based evidence and capability and are keen to understand what elements could be fulfilled indicating that novel solutions are encouraged
If you have any issues accessing the RFI attachment, please contact scott.taggart107@mod.gov.uk
The deadline for responses is midday on Friday 8th September 2023.
5. CPV Code(s): 75221000
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: Project Code 61706602
9. Estimated value of requirement: Not provided.
10. Listing Deadline 8.9.2023 (12:00).
11. Address to which they must be sent: You must register or log in at Web: to participate in this tender.
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12. Other information: Notes: Default Additional Notes
Procurement Route: Other
TKR-2023810-EX-1616727