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Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: United Kingdom

UK-Bristol: Warehousing services.

Section I: Contracting Authority
Title: UK-Bristol: Warehousing services.
I.1)Name, Addresses And Contact Point(s)
Ministry of Defence, Agencies/Misc, Logistic Support (LS)
Ministry Of Defence, Logistics Delivery Operating Centre, Supply Chain Transformation Expansion, NH3 Cedar 3a, Bristol, BS34 8JH, United Kingdom
Tel. +44 03067930280, Email: DESLD-StratComrcl@mod.gov.uk
Contact: WDO Commercial Team
Main Address:

I.2)Type Of Purchasing Body
Contracting authority

Section II: Object Of The Contract
II.1)Description
II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority/entity: Supply Chain Transformation Expansion, Warehousing and Distribution Optimisation (WDO) Industry Day
II.1.2)Short description of the contract or purchase:
Warehousing services. Freight transport agency services. Defence services. Transport services (excl. Waste transport). Storage and warehousing services. The Supply Chain Transformation Expansion (SCTX) programme is part of the Logistic Delivery Operations Centre (LDOC) within Defence Equipment & Support based in Abbey Wood Bristol. The team is responsible for delivering the SCTX requirement to understand, control and optimise the Defence Warehouse and Distribution capability in the UK Strategic Base. The aim is to carry out competitive tendering activity starting in Q4 21, the start date for procurement activity in this notice provides an indicative date only. Further analysis is needed which will affect the value of the procurement, an indicative value for the resulting contracts is somewhere in the range of £5 million and £12 million per annum dependent on the options taken forward.
The purpose of this PIN is to advise potential providers of a market engagement day being held for The Authority’s requirement for the SCTX programme. The aims of the SCTX programme are to optimise the MOD’s Warehousing and Distribution Network and to deliver an efficient and effective solution, through the competent management of MOD’s warehouse facilities.
The Warehousing and Distribution Optimisation (WDO) project is tasked to understand, control and optimise the Defence Warehouse and Distribution capability in the UK Strategic Base. The types of solution the Authority would like to consider are; Multi Location Warehousing Estate Capacity and Capability Management System. Software as a solution, 3PL and 4PL. Multi Location Warehousing Estate Capacity and Capability Control Tower.
We are keen to seek the views of Industry, who may be interested in participating in the procurement process, in helping to shape the requirement. This process will begin with a market engagement day being held in Bicester, UK on the 20th October 2020. This will be the first of several engagement events, at which we are looking to share the scale and scope of the programme, together with our desired outcomes. Please note that due to the current COVID-19 restrictions on group gatherings, the Authority reserves the right to change the location and functionality of the market engagement day. This may include holding the market engagement days virtually. In all scenarios, the Authority reserves the right to restrict the number of attendees. The Authority will provide written notice of any changes via email to all interested parties. To register your interest please email the following email address: DESLD-StratComrcl@mod.gov.uk by 18-09-2020.

II.1.3)Common procurement vocabulary:
63122000 – Warehousing services.

63521000 – Freight transport agency services.

75220000 – Defence services.

60000000 – Transport services (excl. Waste transport).

63120000 – Storage and warehousing services.

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: WDO-001
IV.2.2)Notice reference for electronically submitted notice
Original Notice sent via: OJS eSender

Notice Reference: 2020 – 237280
IV.2.3)Notice to which this publication refers
Notice number in OJ: 2020/S 174 – 421636 of
IV.2.4)Date of dispatch of the original Notice: 15/02/2021

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

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:

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

VI.3.5)Addresses and contact points to be corrected:
Not Provided

VI.3.6)Text to be added in the original notice:
Place of text to be added: In place of original information about the WDO project.

Text to be added: The purpose of this Corrigendum is to advise potential providers that the MOD has determined that the initial operating capability (IOC) for the Warehousing and Distribution Optimisation (WDO) project will be delivered in-house. The in-house project aims to achieve IOC by March 2022. Accordingly, the procurement activity previously notified (under BIP91000914 and 2020/S 174-421636) should be deemed to be now closed. Future and potential procurement opportunities related to WDO will be advertised separately as they arise, in particular:

A. Q4 2022/2023 when the MOD will consider options for the enduring solution for, and requirements of, the full operating capability of WDO, and

B. procurement routes for trialling, testing, experimenting and accelerating the development and deployment of warehousing and distribution management technology and control capabilities.

In the meantime, the MOD is keen to continue to engage with suppliers to share information, knowledge and experience of implementing estate capacity and capability control towers and associated mobile applications through TD-Info. For further information on TD-Info and MOD/Industry forums for such information exchanges and wider Defence logistics, supply chain and support initiatives please visit

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.

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VI.5)Date of dispatch: 15/02/2021