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UCL Submarine Design and Acquisition Course

Buyer: Ministry of Defence →

BuyerMinistry of Defence
StatusAwarded
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published19 Nov 2024

What is being bought

UCL to provide SDA staff members to complete the Submarine Design and Acquisition Course (SDAC).

Delivery location

UKI

Categories

Special education services 80340000

Lot details

Lot 1

UCL to provide SDA staff members to complete the Submarine Design and Acquisition Course (SDAC).

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
price

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Not publishedNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 80. The category anchor is Special education services (80340000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 802,5213 median · 40.1 average (814 of 2,521 with a bid count)3.7 average (903 of 2,521 with named award suppliers)1 comparable price pairs
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKI1394 median · 11.1 average (27 of 139 with a bid count)2 average (35 of 139 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleThe Submarines Delivery Agency (SDA), acting as agent for the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD), intends to award a single source contract for a period of 24 months to University College London (UCL) for the provision of a Submarines Delivery Acquisition Course (SDAC). The UCL Submarine Design Course introduces SDA Naval Architects and Marine Engineers to the basic elements governing the design and acquisition of submarines and underwater craft. Starting from a consideration of the operating requirements, it provides an approach to developing conceptual solutions, establishing the feasibility, and delivering preliminary design detail. The course shows how the various mobility elements of the vehicle, speed, endurance, diving depth and control interact, and how the demands of the equipment required to perform a vessel’s operational function can govern the choice of vehicle and its configuration. The continued delivery of this SDAC training is essential to support the development of Suitably Qualified Experienced Personnel (SQEP) within SDA who sit within the scarce technical discipline of Naval Architecture. These skills and experience are needed to maintain SDA support to the Continuous at Sea Deterrent (CASD A 24-month contract with UCL for the delivery of this important SDAC Training Course, will develop and maintain SDA Naval Architecture SQEP, whilst also allowing the SDA to review the Training Provider delivery platforms for SDAC from October 2026 onwards. UCL are the only UK supplier of the SDAC, and they are the only current Training Provider with the technical knowledge, experience, course material, and technical documentation to deliver the SDAC. The SDAC as a product, has been developed over many years (since 1967) and uses a combination of MOD, UCL and Industry experts for its delivery. It should be noted that even though MOD staff (DE&S and SDA) are involved with the delivery of the SDAC, MOD IPR of the SDAC course material has never been established.
Rationale classificationsThe procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
Special regimeNot published
Covered byGPA
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Awards

Contracts

UCL Submarine Design and Acquisition Course

Statusactive
Value£185,850

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-047e7f
Latest release ID037319-2024
Latest release timestampTue Nov 19 2024 10:45:57 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statuscomplete
Procurement methodlimited
Procurement method detailsAward procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release1
Contracts in latest release1
Parties in latest release3

Notice history

DateEventReference
19 Nov 2024award, contract037319-2024
18 Jul 2024award, contract022311-2024

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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Complete JSON history (2 releases)
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