Floats and Gliders · UK public procurement notice

CPV: Surveying, hydrographic, oceanographic and hydrological instruments and appliances · Unmanned underwater vehicles

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

Goods

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

20 Feb 2025, 15:28 GMT

Last source update

26 Mar 2025, 21:38 GMT

FTS notice number

2025/S 000-011425

Classification (CPV)

Surveying, hydrographic, oceanographic and hydrological instruments and appliancesUnmanned underwater vehicles

Delivery area

UK

Official registry OCID

ocds-h6vhtk-04e545 Find a Tender

Why no open competition

The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive

Published justification

The Royal Navy, part of the UK Ministry of Defence, intends to award a 2 year contract with a value of £1,110,000 Ex VAT to Teledyne Webb Research for the purchase of 40 disposable autonomous commercial profiling floats to the Royal Navy. 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 (PCR 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 (in accordance with the relevant legislation) is lawful in accordance with regulation 32(5)(b) of the PCR 2015 because competition is absent for technical reasons. This is because Royal Navy needs to be able to arrange for additional deliveries by the original supplier which are intended either as a partial replacement of supplies or installations or as the extension of existing supplies or installations where a change of supplier would oblige the contracting authority to acquire supplies having different technical characteristics which would result in incompatibility or disproportionate technical difficulties in operation and maintenance.

A contract with a different supplier would result in incompatibility with currently owned RN assets with resulting unacceptable differences in terms of data and maintenance as well as with US assets whose operational goals require shared data and usage. This would have an unacceptable impact on Geospatial Intelligence sharing with the US. The current systems have a proved accredited data path which enables support to current and future operations and this can only be met by Teledyne Webb Research as no alternative or substitutes can be used for interoperability reasons.

• Teledyne Instruments, Inc. Trading as Teledyne Webb ResearchAwarded supplier 49 Edgerton Drive North Falmouth MA 02556 USA, North Falmouth, US
• Teledyne Webb Research, a Business Unit of Teledyne Instruments, Inc.Awarded supplier 49 Edgerton Drive, North Falmouth, MA 02556, United States, North Falmouth, US

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