Official UK procurement notice
Provision of Interim Actors, Audiences, Adversaries, Enemies &Specialists (A3ES) -Project Numidian
Authority: Ministry of Defence (Central government)·Consortium: 4 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionProject Numidian is to provide professional, agile and responsive support to the design, planning, delivery and improvement of training across all Training Levels and Environments. This support will incorporate the provision of Contemporary Operating Environmental FORce (COEFOR), Opposition FORce (OPFOR), Hi-Fidelity Casualty Simulation (CASSIM), EXCON (Exercise Control), production of Operational Staff Work (OSW) and Exercise Scenario writing and Senior Mentoring services. To ensure the training audience is exposed to hybrid, contemporary threats and are sufficiently challenged.
CPV: Defence services · Defence services, military defence services and civil defence services · Pilot services · Piloted aircraft · Reconnaissance aircrafts · Special-purpose aircraft
How this framework works
From the published notice- Bids received
- 2 bids received · 2 suppliers appointed
- Framework value
- £9,000,000
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The requirement is to deliver training support services, including:Awarded
The requirement is to deliver training support services, including:
a. Technical writing for Mission Ready and Combat Ready exercises.
b. Actors.
c. Information Manoeuvre.
d. Pyrotechnics.
e. Unmanned Air Systems.
f. Data fusion and analysis.
g. HICON/LOCON/SIDECON.
h. Support to Land Spec Ops.
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 (9)
- Deliverable Management Plan: 9.17
- Personnel Management: 12.22
- Training Delivery: Language: 6.11
- Training Delivery: Technical Writers: 15.28
- Training Delivery: CASSIM: 9.17
- Training Delivery: Managing Data: 3.06
- SV - Health and Wellbeing: 5
- SV - Equal Opportunity: 2.5
- SV - Tackling Economic Inequality: 2.5
Published award criteria (10)
- Deliverable Management Plan: 9.17
- Personnel Management: 12.22
- Training Delivery: Language: 6.11
- Training Delivery: Technical Writers: 15.28
- Training Delivery: CASSIM: 9.17
- Training Delivery: Managing Data: 3.06
- SV - Health and Wellbeing: 5
- SV - Equal Opportunity: 2.5
- SV - Tackling Economic Inequality: 2.5
- Weighted VfM Index: VfM
- Suitability
Suppliers Instructions How to Express Interest in this Tender:
- Register your company on the eSourcing portal (this is only required once)
- Browse to the eSourcing Portal
- Click the “Click here to register” link
- Accept the terms and conditions and click “continue”
- Enter your correct business and user details
- Note the username you chose and click “Save” when complete
- You will shortly receive an email with your unique password (please keep this secure)
- Express an Interest in the tender
- Login to the portal with the username/password
- Click the "PQQs Open to All Suppliers" link. (These are Pre-Qualification Questionnaires open to any registered supplier)
- Click on the relevant PQQ to access the content.
- Click the “Express Interest” button in the “Actions” box on the left-hand side of the page.
- This will move the PQQ into your “My PQQs” page. (This is a secure area reserved for your projects only)
- Click on the PQQ code, you can now access any attachments by clicking the “Settings and Buyer Attachments” in the “Actions” box
- Responding to the tender
- You can now choose to “Reply” or “Reject” (please give a reason if rejecting)
- You can now use the ‘Messages’ function to communicate with the buyer and seek any clarification
- Note the deadline for completion, then follow the onscreen instructions to complete the PQQ
- There may be a mixture of online & offline actions for you to perform (there is detailed online help available)
If you require any furt…
- Suitability
Suppliers Instructions How to Express Interest in this Tender:
- Register your company on the eSourcing portal (this is only required once)
- Browse to the eSourcing Portal
- Click the “Click here to register” link
- Accept the terms and conditions and click “continue”
- Enter your correct business and user details
- Note the username you chose and click “Save” when complete
- You will shortly receive an email with your unique password (please keep this secure)
- Express an Interest in the tender
- Login to the portal with the username/password
- Click the "PQQs Open to All Suppliers" link. (These are Pre-Qualification Questionnaires open to any registered supplier)
- Click on the relevant PQQ to access the content.
- Click the “Express Interest” button in the “Actions” box on the left-hand side of the page.
- This will move the PQQ into your “My PQQs” page. (This is a secure area reserved for your projects only)
- Click on the PQQ code, you can now access any attachments by clicking the “Settings and Buyer Attachments” in the “Actions” box
- Responding to the tender
- You can now choose to “Reply” or “Reject” (please give a reason if rejecting)
- You can now use the ‘Messages’ function to communicate with the buyer and seek any clarification
- Note the deadline for completion, then follow the onscreen instructions to complete the PQQ
- There may be a mixture of online & offline actions for you to perform (there is detailed online help available)
If you require any furt…
- Economic & financial standing
Economic and financial standing will be accessed- more can be seen within the DPQQ questions on the qualification envelope
Minimum: as per the DPQQ - Economic & financial standing
Economic and financial standing will be accessed- more can be seen within the DPQQ questions on the qualification envelope
Minimum: as per the DPQQ - Technical & professional ability
Technical ability will be accessed as part of this DPQQ. The questions can be found within the DPQQ.
Minimum: a minimum score of 630 is required, out of a possible 1000. Further details of each minimum score can be found uploaded onto the DSP under technical ability
- Legal form for consortia
- In the event of a group provider submitting an acceptable offer, the MoD reserves the right to require the group of bidders to take a legal form or require one bidder to take Prime Contractor responsibility or to require that each member of the group undertakes joint and severable liability for the performance of the agreement and any call-off made under it.
- Second stage candidates
- 3–10 candidates invited to tender
- “Provision of Interim Actors, Audiences, Adversaries, Enemies…” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Restricted procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 10 Jun 2022, 09:24 BST
- Last source update
- 26 Jun 2023, 19:25 BST
- Authority reference
701779452- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-018183- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0344f0Find a Tender- Contract terms summary
Potential Providers must note the mandatory requirement for electronic trading using the Contracting, Purchasing & Finance (CP&F) electronic trading tool. All payments for deliverables under the contract shall only be made via CP&F. Details can be found at
- Other terms
The Authority reserves the right to amend any condition related to security of information to reflect any changes in national law or government policy. If any contract documents are accompanied by instructions on safeguarding classified information (e.g. a Security Aspects Letter), the Authority reserves the right to amend the terms of these instructions to reflect any changes in national law or government policy, whether in respect of the applicable protective marking scheme, specific protective markings given, the aspects to which any protective marking applies, or otherwise. The link below to the Gov.uk website provides information on the Government Security Classification.
Publisher note: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/bf5bd584-014c-48d5-83ea-5712f0d7ddaf
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
- 15 Jul 2022, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission","written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
15 Jul 2022 → 26 Jun 2023 · 3 dates- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown15 Jul 2022, 12:00 BST
- Invitations to tender expected24 Oct 2022, 00:00 BST
- Notice published26 Jun 2023, 19:25 BST
Notice history
4 events · 4 releases on Find a Tender · since 14 Jun 2023- Status changed to complete14 Jun 2023, 12:14 BST
- Buyer details updated14 Jun 2023, 12:14 BST
- Buyer details updated26 Jun 2023, 14:11 BST
- Buyer details updated26 Jun 2023, 19:25 BST
Routine re-releases (4)
- 2022-06: 1 release · 10 Jun 2022
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast3 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
All 2 of these contracts carry the same published figure, £73,980,408, the framework's maximum for the whole notice, not each contract's own value. They are not eleven separate sums.
The Provision of Interim Actors, Audiences, Adversaries, Enemies and Specialists (A3ES) - Project NUMIDIAN
- Signed
- 20 Jun 2023
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
The Provision of Interim Actors, Audiences, Adversaries, Enemies and Specialists (A3ES) - Project NUMIDIAN
- Signed
- 20 Jun 2023
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Provision of Close Air Support And Intelligence, Surveillance And Reconnaissance Emulation For Collective Training Group (Project Valkyrie)
- Signed
- 13 Jun 2023
- Value
- £4,515,145
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2bids · 2 electronic · 3 from abroad | 2 | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeDispute resolution & review bodies
- Army CommericalReview body
Framework contractors & participating bidders
2 commercial parties on the notice- 2 Excel Aviation LtdFramework contractor
- Mabway LimitedFramework contractor
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments