Official UK procurement notice
Stopped Vehicle Detection · UK public procurement notice
Authority: National Highways Limited (Central government)
Re-procurement plannedUK1 NOTICE - ORT0210 - Strategic Stopped Vehicle Detection (SVD) · tender expected
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe scope of the procurement is to provide:
i) support and maintenance services to existing radar units and for new radar units to be supplied under this contract,
ii) the supply of additional radar devices for the targeted replacement of specific existing units
iii) the option to upgrade the drive mechanism within existing radar units
CPV: Installation of traffic monitoring equipment · Traffic monitoring services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The contract has 3 elements:
The contract has 3 elements:
a) support and maintenance services to the existing 1200 radar units which have already been supplied and installed; support and maintenance services to additional radar units to be supplied under this contract as part of a targeted device refresh where radar are reaching “end of life”; and support and maintenance services for the upgrade of existing radars on the M3 and M25 and for the National Emergency Area Refresh Programme.
b) Supply of additional radar units (in the region of 120 units) to replace existing devices which are approaching “end of life”.
c) the option to upgrade the drive mechanism within existing radar units. No decision has been made regarding the adoption of a new drive mechanism so this would be incorporated into the contract as additional optional scope.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- 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
- Services
- 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
- 12 Jun 2024, 11:47 BST
- Last source update
- 12 Jun 2024, 11:47 BST
- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-018156- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-046f57Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
National Highways is relying on Regulation 32(2)(b) (ii) and (iii) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 to justify the use of the negotiated procedure without prior publication for the following reasons:
- The proposed supplier has exclusive (intellectual property) rights in the hardware and software already supplied to National Highways and do not share /re-sell/licence any of its designs/intellectual property with/to third parties. Without these, no other supplier could provide the support and maintenance services under the proposed contract to the pre-existing hardware. For the same reasons, no other supplier could provide upgrades to existing hardware.
- Any targeted replacement of hardware under the proposed contract must be capable of integrating and interoperating with the existing deployed radar solution and its wider operational technology environment. In order to achieve this integration, access to the existing supplier’s intellectual property is required and the existing supplier will not share this with any third party. The proposed supplier is therefore currently the only supplier who is capable of supplying replacement hardware which will integrate with the existing solution and operational technology environment.
- The only means by which another supplier could provide services and supplies similar to those under the proposed contract would be to replace the existing hardware with an alternative solution. Very significant investment has been made to deploy the existing hardware and the majority of these assets still have a number of years before they reach ‘end of life’. To undertake a wholesale replacement of the hardware at this juncture would therefore be disproportionate and unreasonable.
- Review procedure
National Highways will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period from the date of publication of this notice before awarding this contract. Review procedures and timelines are as set out in the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Navtech Radar LimitedStrategic SVDSubcontracting: declared | £17,300,000 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Strategic SVD · Navtech Radar Limited
- Signed
- 5 Apr 2024
- Value
- £17,300,000
- Status
- active
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- HighcourtReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Navtech RadarAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.