50000.00 · UK public procurement notice

CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

Procedure method

Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition

Legal basis

CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)

Procurement category

Services

Notice status

Awarded without competition

Procurement threshold

Unspecified in notice

Regulatory regime

Standard

Commercial structure

Stand-alone contract (no framework)

Competition type

Direct award (no call for competition)

GPA / WTO covered

Yes (GPA)

Recurring procurement

Unspecified in notice

First published

14 Mar 2025, 12:43 GMT

Last source update

14 Mar 2025, 12:43 GMT

FTS notice number

2025/S 000-009424

Classification (CPV)

IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

Delivery area

UK

Official registry OCID

ocds-h6vhtk-04ed43 Find a Tender

Why no open competition

No tenders or no suitable tenders/requests to participate in response to restricted procedure

Published justification

The Military Aviation Authority (“MAA”) is part of the Defence Safety Authority, which is part of the

Ministry of Defence (“the Authority”), intends to award a contract to the Civil Aviation Authority

International (CAAi) for the provision of assessment and assurance of the competence of organisations

undertaking activities for the UK Defence Air Environment for a period of 3 years with additional 2 × 1

option years. The estimated contract value is £1.26M excluding VAT . The contract will be based on a Nil

Volume Commitment basis with throughput value estimated at up to £420K per annum but potentially at

nil cost to the MAA as costs should largely rest with the MoD industry partners being assessed and

audited.

In accordance with the provisions of The Public Procurement (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020

SI No. 2020/1319, this procurement falls to be regulated under the provisions of the Public Contracts

Regulations 2015 as amended (in particular by SI 2020/1319). Prior publication of a contract notice in the

Official Journal of the European Union is no longer appropriate. It is considered that the award of the

contract without prior publication of a contract notice in the UK e-notification service (as required by the

relevant legislation) is lawful in accordance with regulation 32(b)(ii) of the PCR 2015 because competition

is absent for technical reasons.

The MAA has an ongoing requirement for external technical support to be provided in order to undertake

the assessment of organisations already included in the Design and Maintenance Approved Organisation

Schemes (DAOS and MAOS). The requirement can only be delivered by CAAi because the CAAi is the

technical cooperation arm of the UK Civil Aviation Authority and is the only organisation that has the

required expertise and technical knowledge to deliver for the requirement. The MAA view is that only the

CAAi can viably deliver this technical support with the credibility and integrity required.

• Civil Aviation Authority InternationalAwarded supplier Aviation House Beehive Ring Rd Crawley United Kingdom, Gatwick, UK, RH6 0YR

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