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ClosedStage · contract

Ministry of Defence, Ships, Maritime Platform Systems (MPS)

Supply and Support of Water Safety Equipment

Transport EquipmentCPV 34930000
Value£10.0m
Deadline29 Mar 2016
Published18 Feb 2016
RegionSouth West
Timeline
Published 18 Feb 2016ClosedCloses 29 Mar 2016
Contract value in context
£10.0mtotal contract value
median £102k
this tender£0£10.8m

This is a large award for Transport Equipment — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 15,368 valued Transport Equipment tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

The requirement covers the manufacture,sourcing and support of a range of Water Safety Equipment Articles, including the servicing and repair of equipment and post design services such as obsolescence management and the updating of drawings and technical documentation where appropriate.

The Articles included in this requirement cover the provision of safety critical equipment for all personnel in or around water .

The full list of parts can be found in the supporting document to the PQQ.

The Articles to be supplied must comply with IMO, SOLAS, CE and BS EN ISO 12402.

The requirement has been split in to 6 distinct lots.

The successful tenderer for the applicable Lot may be required to supply samples of Life Jackets for approval prior to commencing manufacturing.

Samples shall be provided free of charge to the Authority.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The requirement covers the manufacture,sourcing and support

The requirement covers the manufacture,sourcing and support of a range of Water Safety Equipment Articles, including the servicing and repair of equipment and post design services such as obsolescence management and the updating of drawings and technical documentation where appropriate.

02

The Articles to be supplied must comply

The Articles to be supplied must comply with IMO, SOLAS, CE and BS EN ISO 12402.

03

The successful tenderer for the applicable Lot

The successful tenderer for the applicable Lot may be required to supply samples of Life Jackets for approval prior to commencing manufacturing.

04

Samples shall be provided free of charge

Samples shall be provided free of charge to the Authority.

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