Teledyne CARIS HIPS & Sips Support Contract

CPV: Surveying, hydrographic, oceanographic and hydrological instruments and appliances

Procedure method

Negotiated without publication of a contract notice

Legal basis

CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)

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

21 Mar 2024, 16:56 GMT

Last source update

21 Mar 2024, 16:56 GMT

FTS notice number

2024/S 000-009263

Classification (CPV)

Surveying, hydrographic, oceanographic and hydrological instruments and appliances

Delivery area

South West (UKK12)

Official registry OCID

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Why no open competition

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 United Kingdom Ministry of Defence, intends to award a contract to Teledyne Caris Inc. (“Caris”) for the supply and maintenance of specialist software to support the analysis, formatting and correction of data gathered by hydrographic sonar systems on board Royal Naval (“RN”) vessels (the “Contract”). The Contract will have a duration of 5 years plus 1 option year.

It is considered that this Contract can be placed using the negotiated procedure without prior publication pursuant to Article 32(2)(b)(ii) of Directive 2014/24/EU (Regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/102) on the basis that the relevant products and services can be supplied only by Caris, competition being absent for technical reasons. To award the Contract to any other economic operator would have a major impact on operations as well as quality of survey data outputs, hence Safety of life At Sea (SOLAS) charting obligations and military specific bathymetric requirements provided by the Royal Navy for navigational and operational safety. There would also be an impact on Training causing severe disruption and a significant change in the Flag Officer Sea Training (FOST) Hydrographer Meteorologists (HM) course and syllabuses which would cause a reduction of the timely output of training the HM Fleet.

• Teledyne CARISAwarded supplier Fredericton, CA

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