Official UK procurement notice
Provision of Electronic Supply Area (ESA) and Asset-Tracking Cloud Based Software
Authority: Ministry of Defence (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement description- Implementation of a cloud-hosted platform for asset and item tracking.
- Production of a report to support critical work to the development of robust, informed User Requirements to support Army requirements.
CPV: Programming services of packaged software products
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Technical: 50%
- Price: 50%
Published award criteria (2)
- Technical: 50
- Price: 50
- Price carries 50 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 5 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- 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
- Services
- 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
- 10 Apr 2024, 11:07 BST
- Last source update
- 10 Apr 2024, 11:07 BST
- Authority reference
711439450- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-011586- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0450f4Find 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 contract concerns research and development services other than those referred to
- Published justification
- The Secretary of State for Defence intends to enter a contract with Smarter Technologies Trading Limited for the procurement of the implementation of a cloud-based asset and item tracking system and a report relating to the outputs and outcomes of its use in Exercise Linotyper.
- It is considered that this contract can be placed with Smarter Technologies Trading Limited pursuant to Regulation 7(1)(l) of the Defence and Security Public Contract Regulations, justified by the following:
i. This is a contract for services which fall within the DSPCR Regulation 3 definition of Research and Development: ‘all activities comprising fundamental research, applied research and experimental development’. Specifically, it constitutes experimental development, defined by DSPCR Regulation 3 as ‘work based on existing knowledge obtained from research or practical experience with a view to initiating the manufacture of new materials, products or devices, establishing new processes, systems and services or considerably improving those that already exist and includes the realisation of technological demonstrators’.
ii. The MOD will fully fund this Research and Development activity. The ownership of the Intellectual Property Rights in the results will remain with the contractor, and under DEFCON 705, the MOD will acquire user rights of the Research and Development activity.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smarter Technologies Trading LimitedSMESubcontracting: declared | £151,400 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Provision of Electronic Supply Area (ESA) and Asset-Tracking Cloud Based Software · Smarter Technologies Trading LimitedSME
- Signed
- 10 Apr 2024
- Value
- £151,400
- Status
- active
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Smarter Technologies Trading LimitedAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.