The Provision of 12 months Technical Support to Joint Common Remote Viewing Terminal (JCRVT)

Concepts

• bristol
• integrated telecommunications
• joint common remote viewing terminal
• jcrvt
• technical support
• the technical support to joint common remote viewing terminal
• the technical support
• the provision of 12 months technical support
• month
• joint

Location

Bristol

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 Ltd a 12-month contract for the Technical Support to Joint Common Remote Viewing Terminal (JCRVT).

Award Detail

CPV Codes

• 64227000 - Integrated telecommunications services

Indicators

• An E-Auction will not be used.

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 MOD awarded initial JCRVT manufacture and support contract to L3Harris in 2016 which is due to expire in October 2023. A new short-term replacement in-service technical support is required. 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.