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Merlin Mk3 and 3A Life Sustainment Programme (MLSP) Design and Manufacture.

Contract award notice

Services

Directive 2004/18/EC

Section I: Contracting authority

I.1)Name, addresses and contact point(s)

Merlin Project Team, DE&S;
AgustaWestland Ltd, Bldg 243, Box 307, Lysander Road
For the attention of: Rosemary Mussenden
BA20 2YB Yeovil
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1935704449

I.2)Type of the contracting authority
Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local sub-divisions
I.3)Main activity
Defence
I.4)Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities
The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: no

Section II: Object of the contract

II.1)Description
II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract
Merlin Mk3 and 3A Life Sustainment Programme (MLSP) Design and Manufacture.
II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance
Services
Service category No 27: Other services

NUTS code UKK23

II.1.3)Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS)
II.1.4)Short description of the contract or purchase(s)
Helicopters. Life Sustainment Programme for the Merlin Mk3 and 3a helicopters.
II.1.5)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

34711500

II.1.6)Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): no
II.2)Total final value of contract(s)
II.2.1)Total final value of contract(s)
Value: 328 169 289 GBP
Excluding VAT

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)Type of procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure
Award of a contract without prior publication of a contract notice in the Official Journal of the European Union (in the cases listed in Section 2 of Annex D1)
Justification for the award of the contract without prior publication of a contract notice in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU):
Directive 2004/18/EC

1) Justification for the choice of the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice in the OJEU in accordance with Directive 2004/18/EC

The works/goods/services can be provided only by a particular tenderer for reasons that are:
connected with the protection of exclusive rights
IV.2)Award criteria
IV.2.1)Award criteria
IV.2.2)Information about electronic auction
IV.3)Administrative information
IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority
MERCL/1323
IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

Voluntary ex ante transparency notice

Notice number in the OJEU: 2013/S 116-198650 of 18.6.2013

Section V: Award of contract

Contract No: MERCL/1323
V.1)Date of contract award decision:
18.12.2013
V.2)Information about offers
V.3)Name and address of economic operator in favour of whom the contract award decision has been taken

AgustaWestland Ltd
Bldg 243, Box 307, Lysander Road
BA20 2YB Yeovil
UNITED KINGDOM

V.4)Information on value of contract
Total final value of the contract:
Value: 328 169 289 GBP
Excluding VAT
V.5)Information about subcontracting
The contract is likely to be sub-contracted: yes
Value or proportion of the contract likely to be sub-contracted to third parties:
Value excluding VAT 101 000,00 GBP

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.1)Information about European Union funds
The contract is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no
VI.2)Additional information:

Suppliers interested in working with the Ministry of Defence should register on the MOD Supplier Information Database (SID) Register, available at www.contracts.mod.uk. The MOD SID is a database of active and potential suppliers available to all MOD and UK Defence procurement personnel, and is the main supplier database of MOD Procurement organisations. Please note: the registration and publication of a company profile on the MOD SID does not mean or imply that the supplier has in any way been vetted or approved by the MOD. Suppliers wishing to compete for advertised MOD contracts must respond to any specific call for competition by submitting a separate expression of interest in accordance with the instructions of the purchasing organisation.

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-201424-DCB-5436653
VI.3)Procedures for appeal
VI.3.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures

Merlin Project Team, DE&S;
AgustaWestland Ltd, Bldg 243, Box 307, Lysander Road
BA20 2YB YEOVIL
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail:
Telephone: +44 1935704449

Body responsible for mediation procedures

Merlin Project Team, DE&S;
Bldg 243, Box 307, AgustaWestland Ltd, Lysander Road
BA20 2YB Yeovil
UNITED KINGDOM

VI.3.2)Lodging of appeals
VI.3.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained

Merlin Project Team, DE&S;
Bldg 243, Box 307, AgustaWestland Ltd, Lysander Road
BA20 2YB Yeovil
UNITED KINGDOM

VI.4)Date of dispatch of this notice:
4.2.2014