703264452 Develop Concepts of Operation for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

The tender for ‘703264452 Develop Concepts of Operation for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles’ is now live within the Defence Sourcing Portal, available at: contracts.mod.uk/web/login.html ↗

This tender relates to Contracts Finder PIN 2021/S 000-028279, dated 11 Nov 2021.

A Contracts Finder Opportunity Notice has been published at: www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/af97a367-f53e… ↗

Requirement

Project ATLANTIS vision and Maritime Underwater Future Capability (MUFC) employs a combination of submarine (SSN(R)) and autonomous off-board systems. Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) are regarded as a key component of future underwater and covert operations.

Three non-lethal mission sets (Anti-Submarine/Surface Warfare; Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance; and Seabed Warfare) will be used by the study to consider AUV operational employment over the next 30 years. In each of the three cases, the output comprises a CONOPS including the full range of operational employment of vehicle and systems and an outline of the likely operational constraints, particularly technical challenges.

The CONOPS will be presented in the form of a Joint Concept Note. This is this to be presented in hard copy as well as soft copies.

Specific Conditions of Tendering

The Tenderers’ attention is drawn to the following:

a. Contract Award will be dependent upon the Winning Tenderer:

• The winning tenderer providing evidence of all workers handling information up to SECRET for the duration of the contract being in receipt of valid Security Check (SC) Security Clearance or obtaining SC Security Clearance by Service Commencement Date. The SC Security Clearance is to be valid for the duration of the proposed contract;
• holding at least provisional List X status by final Tender return and obtaining full List X status by Service Commencement Date, for any site at which it will hold SECRET classified information.

If the Winning Tenderer is unable to meet any of the above, the Authority retains the right to consider the tenderer non-compliant and award the Contract to the next highest placed Tenderer.

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