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Helicopter Maintenance & Role Equipment

Repair and maintenance services of helicopters
Northern Ireland (UKN)
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
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Tenderline Synopsis: Police Service of Northern Ireland - Transport Services Branch: "Helicopter Maintenance & Role Equipment". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityPolice Service of Northern Ireland - Transport Services BranchScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
complete
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Police Service of Northern Ireland - Transport Services Branch
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Published history for Police Service of Northern Ireland - Transport Services Branch. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
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Competition Density
1Bids / Report
100% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationNo estimate
Insufficient attributable awardsNo concentration estimate available
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
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Coverage: 2 active published awards; 1 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityPolice Service of Northern Ireland - Transport Services Branch
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statuscomplete
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published1 Feb 2023, 16:06 GMT
Last source update1 Feb 2023, 16:06 GMT
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationRepair and maintenance services of helicopters
Delivery area
Northern Ireland (UKN)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-03a21e
What is being bought
Provision of maintenance services, specialist role equipment upgrades and fitment for PSNI's helicopter fleet.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Status changed to complete
    1 Feb 2023, 16:06 GMT
  2. Official notice release published
    1 Feb 2023, 16:06 GMT
  3. Buyer information updated
    1 Feb 2023, 16:06 GMT
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    cancelled
    Published valueNot published
    Provision of maintenance services, specialist role equipment upgrades and fitment for PSNI's helicopter fleet
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    1 Feb 2023, 16:06 GMT
  2. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  3. Contract active
    Signed 20 Dec 2022, 00:00 GMT · £14,000,000
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
Information withheld for security reasons
Not published · Not published · active
Contracts
Helicopter Maintenance & Role Equipment
£14,000,000 · signed 20 Dec 2022, 00:00 GMT · active
Bid statistics
bids: 1 (lot 1)
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Police Service of Northern Ireland - Transport Services Branch

Contracting authority GB-FTS-71468
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  • Police Service of Northern Ireland - Transport Services Branch
    buyer

    151 Belfast Road, Carrickfergus, UKN, BT38 8PL
    justice.cpd@finance-ni.gov.uk

  • Information withheld for security reasons
    supplier

    Information withheld for security reasons
    Information withheld for security reasons, UK

  • See VI.4.3 / Review procedure
    reviewBody

    See VI.4.3 / Review procedure
Documents (0)
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Related procedures (0)
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Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationalePSNI currently have 3 Eurocopter Helicopters operating from a location in Northern Ireland. Provision of aerial support is a province wide asset managed by Crime Operations Air Support Unit. Historically these aircraft have been maintained through the establishment of a number of Direct Award Contracts (DACs) approved accordingly within PSNI and DoJ. The direction of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) states that an operator (PSNI) of an aircraft must have a maintenance agreement in place with suitability licensed contractors to provide continuing airworthiness and the respective maintenance services, without these formal arrangements in place the aircraft would have to be grounded. The contractor is the original and sole equipment manufacturer of the PSNI aircraft types; the design is their Intellectual Property and shall not be delegated or licensed to a 3rd party. The contractor is the Type Certificate Holder for the core aircraft design and it is responsible for defining the aircraft's "build standard, safe operation and maintenance of airworthiness policy". The platform design, qualification data and safety case empowers the contractor to specify the requirements and mandate modifications for all components (includes specialist role equipment) fitted to the core aircraft and mission systems. The contractor is an CAA approved continuing airworthiness management organisation and a BCAR A8-23 authorised helicopter maintenance organisation. They have intellectual proprietary rights to the equipment fitted on the aircraft. The aircraft is used for national security type specific duties and is fitted with specialist survelliance equipment. They have the unique competency to manage mature, high flying rate fleets as the OEM and they are the sole source for providing a single integrated solution, they offer an integrated logistics support utilising their supply chain, access to national stock levels and availability of all specialist tooling. They have existing infrastructure in place for the delivery of this service and have unique knowledge and experience in working with PSNI and their specific operational needs since aircraft entry into service. The provision of this complete maintenance service ensures that the aircraft are maintained to the highest standards ensuring officer safety in their respective operational deployment. The value of this DAC is above the threshold and therefore the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended) apply. There are derogations under the regulations to award a contract to a single supplier where the supplies or services can only be supplied by a particular supplier for any of the following reasons:- i)Where competition is absent for technical reasons (regulation 32(2)(b)(ii); or ii)For reasons connected with the protection of exclusive rights, including intellectual property rights (reg32(2)(b) iii) but only where no reasonable alternative or substitute exists and the absence of competition is not the result of an artificial narrowing down of the parameters of the procurement.