Lightning Shield and Tiger Trap Support

Concepts

• kings lynn
• data security
• lightning shield
• tiger trap support
• tiger trap gateway device
• lightning
• tiger trap
• year contract
• software development
• sovereign data gateway

Location

North and West Norfolk

Description

A new 2 year contract is required to maintain support to the Lightning Shield and Tiger Trap gateway device. Together Lightning Shield and Tiger Trap form the Sovereign Data Gateway (SDG) in support of the F35 Lightning II aircraft.

Award Detail

CPV Codes

• 72212732 - Data security software development services

Indicators

Legal Justification

The Lightning II Delivery Team, part of the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD), intends to place a 2 year contract with Waymont Consulting Ltd (Waymont) for the continued support including repair/replacement of parts of the Lightning Shield and Tiger Trap network traffic inspection device. The contract has an estimated value of £270,833. It is considered that this contract can be placed using the Negotiated Procedure without prior publication of a Contract Notice pursuant to Article 28(1)(e) of Directive 2009/81/EC (Regulation 16(1)(a)(ii) of the Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011) for technical reasons. Lightning Shield is a file validation software application that runs on the Tiger Trap gateway device. Together Lightning Shield and Tiger Trap form the Sovereign Data Gateway (SDG) in support of the F35 Lightning II aircraft. Lightning Shield acts as an inspection device, responsible for monitoring all network traffic between ALIS-SOU (UK) and ALIS-ALOU (USA). Waymont is the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) of both the Tiger Trap hardware and Lightning Shield software solution under a proprietary design that was approved by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). Only Waymont has the requisite technical know-how, tools and means, including proprietary documentation and information to carry out the services required. Waymont is not prepared to authorise any third party to use its proprietary information and the MOD does not hold, nor does it have the right to obtain or use, the necessary documentation or information from Waymont and cannot authorise a third party to carry out maintenance work to either the software or the hardware

Other Information

This notice is not a request for expressions of interest so please do not apply to be invited to tender. This notice advises that the Authority has decided to negotiate a contract with the named supplier on a single source basis, is published for reasons of transparency. If you are interested in becoming a sub-contractor for this requirement, you should apply directly to the supplier named. 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. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-security-classifications Advertising Regime OJEU:- This contract opportunity is published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU),the MoD Defence Contracts Bulletin and www.contracts.mod.uk GO Reference: GO-202117-DCB-17606037