Official UK procurement notice
Typhoon MIDS Field Service Engineer Contract Amendment
Authority: Ministry of Defence (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionContract Amendment to the Typhoon MIDS Field Service Engineer contract to provide Terminal Exerciser software license.
CPV: Engineering support services
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).
- Lowest price
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
- 16 Mar 2022, 22:45 GMT
- Last source update
- 16 Mar 2022, 22:45 GMT
- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-007261- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0322f7Find 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
- Published justification
The Typhoon Delivery Team, part of the Ministry of Defence, intends to amend a contract with Data Link Solutions LLC (DLS) to include the supply of a licence for Terminal Exerciser (TE) software, which is loaded on to appropriate test equipment (eg laptops) in order to test, support and further develop the Link 16 Data Link installed on the Typhoon platform. The value of the contract amendment is £300,000.
In accordance with regulation 4 of The Defence and Security Public Contracts (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (SI 2019/697) this procurement falls to be regulated under the provisions of the Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011 as amended (in particular by SI 2019/697 and SI 2020/1450). Prior publication of a contract notice in the Official Journal of the European Union is no longer appropriate.
It is considered that the award of the contract without prior publication of a contract notice in the UK e-notification service (in accordance with the relevant legislation) is lawful in accordance with regulation 16(1)(a)(ii) of the DSPCR 2011 for reasons connected with the protection of exclusive rights. This is because DLS is the owner of the copyright in the source code of the TE software, which has been developed to work with this specific Link 16 Data Link and tested to work in the Windows 10 operating environment.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data Link Solutions, LLCSubcontracting: declared | £350,000 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 007261-2022-1 · Data Link Solutions, LLC
- Signed
- 16 Mar 2022
- Value
- £350,000
- Status
- active
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Ministry of Defence, MOD AbbeywoodReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Data Link Solutions LLCAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.