The Repair of Escapade Line Replacement Units (LRU's) and associated Assemblies. Reference number: IRM18/6094

Concepts

• repair of escapade line replacement units
• telford
• vehicles and equipment
• babcock land defence limited
• repair
• assemblies
• repair and maintenance
• maintenance of escapade vehicle assemblies
• lru
• irm18

Location

UKG21

Description

Babcock Land Defence Limited, acting as agent to the UK Ministry of Defence, intends to negotiate a Single Source Contract with Thales UK Limited for the repair and maintenance of Escapade Vehicle Assemblies. The contract shall be for the duration of 5 years with the option to extend for a further 2 x 1 year options

Award Detail

CPV Codes

• 50110000 - Repair and maintenance services of motor vehicles and associated equipment

Indicators

• Published under EU Directive 2009/81/EC.
• An E-Auction will not be used.
• Award on basis of price.

Legal Justification

It is considered that this contract placement can be placed using the NegotiatedProcedure Without Prior Publication pursuant to Regulation 16(1)(a)(ii) of the Defenceand Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011 (Article 28(1)(e) of Directive2009/81/EC) for technical reasons because;a. Thales UK Limited is part of Thales Group, who are the original equipmentmanufacturer and hold all design drawings/information, technical specifications andtechnical expertise required. Thales UK Limited are the design authority for the vehicleupgraded to the UK Ministry of Defence requirements.b. Thales UK Limited holds all technical documents relating to the UK variant of theEscapade vehicle, and has stated that it is not willing to release these to any othereconomic operator.c. Due to the interoperability requirements of the equipment, the repair andrefurbishment cannot be undertaken without access to the OEM and Design Authoritytechnical documentation, which is not available to third parties, no other party at thiscurrent time would be able to fully support this requirement.

Other Information

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