29 month in-service support to the Joint Common Remote Viewing Terminal (JCRVT)

Concepts

• integrated telecommunications
• jcrvt
• joint common remote viewing terminal
• army equipment support publications
• post design services
• level 4 technical support services
• the jcrvt capability
• the joint common remote viewing terminal
• month
• joint

Location

United Kingdom:

Description

The TacSys Service Executive (SE) within Defence Digital, part of the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD), intends to place with L3Harris Communications Systems UK Limited a 29-month contract for the provision of Level 4 technical support services to Joint Common Remote Viewing Terminal (JCRVT). The JCRVT capability provides a mobile capability which is flexible and configurable to securely receive and transmit digital and analogue Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR), specifically Full Motion Video (FMV) in real time, including associated Meta data at two protective markings (OFFICIAL-SENSITIVE and SECRET).

Total Quantity or Scope

The In-Service support to JCRVT shall provide: - detailed engineering/technical support and guidance to the Authority on product design and operational use, maintenance and updates to JCRVT - publications (Army Equipment Support Publications (AESPs), training courseware and Safety Assessment Report (SAR)), - management of shared data store to assist with configuration control of documents, - obsolescence management (down to component level) to assist the Authority with ensuring the equipment remains available to the User until any major refresh is planned or required; - provision of Post Design Services (PDS) via a tasking form arrangement, potentially to rectify an obsolescence issues and/or provision of technical information to another MOD Delivery Team with regard to the integration of JCRVT with other MOD capabilities.

Award Detail

Renewal Options

Radio Software update Army Equipment Support Publication review and rewrite Obsolescence review and rewrite Safety and/or Environmental Review

CPV Codes

• 64227000 - Integrated telecommunications services

Indicators

• Options are available.

Legal Justification

It is considered that this contract can be placed using the Negotiated Procedure Without Prior Publication of a contract notice pursuant to Regulation 16 (1)(a)(ii) of the Defence and Security Public Contract Regulations 2011 (DSPCR)) due to technical reasons. Following the competitive procedure, the Authority awarded the JCRVT manufacture and support contract to L3Harris in 2016; L3Harris are the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) and have the specific technical skills, know-how and experience in providing the necessary Contractor Technical Support and Services to support and upgrade the equipment when required. They are also the only supplier who have access to the product design information to enable them to undertake any support and design modifications to the JCRVT system. Choosing to compete this requirement would introduce the possibility of contravention of the Defence Safety Authority (DSA) regulations as it would not be possible to ensure that another contractor could be sufficiently qualified within the requisite timeframes to undertake design and manufacture activities without including an associated unacceptable level of risk. This would result in the Authority not being able to fulfil safety requirements which are required to ensure the safe functioning of the User community. Due to the above reasons the requirement will continue as a single source requirement.

Other Information

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