Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

Date: 04/01/2021

Local time: 10:00

The Bereavement and Aftercare Support (BAS) Team is located in Ramillies Building, Marlborough Lines, Andover, and is responsible for the training of Visiting Officers (VO), whose job is to support Army bereaved families. BAS plans between 15 and 20 courses each year, of which ten will be held in a central location, with the remainder run in Garrisons as required, such as Northern Ireland, Scotland, South Wales, Preston, Colchester, Hereford, Catterick and Cyprus.

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United Kingdom-Andover: Development consultancy services

2020/S 233-576591

Contract notice

Services

Legal Basis:

Directive 2014/24/EU

Section I: Contracting authority

I.1)Name and addresses

Official name: Ministry of Defence, C&C, Other
Postal address: Army Headquarters, Home Command Support Team, Ramillies Building, Marlborough Lines
Town: Andover
NUTS code: UKJ SOUTH EAST (ENGLAND)
Postal code: SP11 8HT
Country: United Kingdom
Contact person: Tinashe B Tshuma
E-mail:
Internet address(es):
Main address: https://www.contracts.mod.uk/

I.2)Information about joint procurement

The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body

I.3)Communication

The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at: https://www.contracts.mod.uk/

Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address

Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted to the abovementioned address

I.4)Type of the contracting authority

Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions

I.5)Main activity

General public services

Section II: Object

II.1)Scope of the procurement

II.1.1)Title:

Provision of Actors for Role Play to Support the Training of Visiting Officers

Reference number: 701176380

II.1.2)Main CPV code

73220000 Development consultancy services

II.1.3)Type of contract

Services

II.1.4)Short description:

The Bereavement and Aftercare Support (BAS) Team is located in Ramillies Building, Marlborough Lines, Andover, and is responsible for the training of Visiting Officers (VO), whose job is to support Army bereaved families. BAS plans between 15 and 20 courses each year, of which ten will be held in a central location, with the remainder run in Garrisons as required, such as Northern Ireland, Scotland, South Wales, Preston, Colchester, Hereford, Catterick and Cyprus. Courses cater for a maximum of 35 students, drawn from regular and reserve Army units, and last for three days, with the third day being devoted to Role Play with professional actors.

II.1.5)Estimated total value

Value excluding VAT: 140 000.00 GBP

II.1.6)Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: no

II.2)Description

II.2.3)Place of performance

NUTS code: UK UNITED KINGDOM

Main site or place of performance:

United Kingdom

II.2.4)Description of the procurement:

The Bereavement and Aftercare Support, Personnel Services Branch, Army Personnel Services Group (APSG) plans to run up to twenty three day Visiting Officer (VO) Training courses throughout each year for 30-35 Service persons.

Therefore the Provision of Actors for Role Play to Support the Training of Visiting Officers is required.

II.2.5)Award criteria

Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents

II.2.6)Estimated value

II.2.7)Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system

Start: 04/03/2021

End: 04/03/2025

This contract is subject to renewal: no

II.2.10)Information about variants

Variants will be accepted: yes

II.2.11)Information about options

Options: no

II.2.13)Information about European Union funds

The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no

II.2.14)Additional information

Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information

III.2)Conditions related to the contract

III.2.3)Information about staff responsible for the performance of the contract

Obligation to indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff assigned to performing the contract

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)Description

IV.1.1)Type of procedure

Open procedure

IV.1.3)Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system

IV.1.8)Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: no

IV.2)Administrative information

IV.2.2)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

Date: 04/01/2021

Local time: 10:00

IV.2.3)Estimated date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates

IV.2.4)Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted:

English

IV.2.6)Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender

Tender must be valid until: 11/01/2021

IV.2.7)Conditions for opening of tenders

Date: 12/01/2021

Local time: 10:00

Place:

UK Army Headquarters, Andover

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.1)Information about recurrence

This is a recurrent procurement: no

VI.2)Information about electronic workflows

Electronic payment will be used

VI.3)Additional information:

The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement.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-20201125-DCB-17422190

VI.4)Procedures for review

VI.4.1)Review body

Official name: Ministry of Defence, C&C, Other
Postal address: Army Headquarters,Home Command Support Team, Ramillies Building, Marlborough Lines
Town: Andover
Postal code: SP11 8HT
Country: United Kingdom
E-mail:

VI.4.2)Body responsible for mediation procedures

Official name: Ministry of Defence, C&C, C&C
Postal address: Army Headquarters,Home Command Support Team, Ramillies Building, Marlborough Lines
Town: Andover
Postal code: SP11 8HT
Country: United Kingdom
E-mail:

VI.4.4)Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained

Official name: Ministry of Defence, C&C, C&C
Postal address: Army Headquarters,Home Command Support Team, Ramillies Building, Marlborough Lines
Town: Andover
Postal code: SP11 8HT
Country: United Kingdom
E-mail:

VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:

25/11/2020