Littoral Post Design Services Support

CPV: Armoured personnel carriers · Infantry fighting vehicles

Procedure method

Negotiated without publication of a contract notice

Legal basis

CELEX · 32009L0081 Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011 (Directive 2009/81/EC)

Procurement category

Goods

Notice status

Awarded

Procurement threshold

Unspecified in notice

Regulatory regime

Standard

Commercial structure

Stand-alone contract (no framework)

Competition type

Competitive procedure

GPA / WTO covered

Unspecified in notice

Recurring procurement

Unspecified in notice

First published

1 Sept 2021, 22:45 BST

Last source update

1 Sept 2021, 22:45 BST

Authority reference

701578551

FTS notice number

2021/S 000-021693

Classification (CPV)

Armoured personnel carriersInfantry fighting vehicles

Delivery area

Sweden (SE)

Official registry OCID

ocds-h6vhtk-02dc2c Find a Tender

Why no open competition

No tenders or no suitable tenders/requests to participate in response to negotiated procedure with prior publication of a contract notice; The products involved are manufactured purely for the purpose of research, experiment, study or development under the conditions stated in the directive; The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator due to absence of competition for technical reasons

Published justification

The Vehicle Support Team (VST) part of the Ministry of Defence, intends to award a 5 year 2 month initial

contract with two option years (maximum contract duration 7 years 2 months), to BAE Systems Hägglunds

AB (‘BAES Hägglunds’) to provide Post Design Services (PDS) for the Viking vehicle (7 variants), BV206

vehicle (14 variants), Beach Recovery Vehicle (BRV) and the Future All Terrain Vehicle (FATV) (All varients).

It is considered that this contract can be placed using the negotiated procedure without prior publication

pursuant under regulation 16(1)(a)(ii) of the Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011 for

technical reasons. BAES Hägglunds is the only company with the required technical knowledge and

experience to carry out this requirement including owning the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) for major

safety critical components for all four vehicles. Due to the amphibiousness of the vehicles, coupled with

ballistic/mine protection structures incorporated into the platforms, all modifications are assessed to

ensure that they do not impact the performance baseline, operational effectiveness or the safety of the

whole platform. Only BAES Hägglunds is able to utilise this analysis to underwrite these modifications and

the safety case of the entire platform. BAES Hägglunds is the only company with a sufficiently detailed

understanding of the extreme operational environment requirements of these vehicles designs and

variants, and their historical configuration to undertake the required Post Design Services.

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• BAE Systems Hägglunds ABAwarded supplier556305-6059 Björnavägen 2, SE-89182 Örnsköldsvik, Björnavägen, SE

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