Babcock Land Defence Limited - acting as agent to the UK Ministry of Defence ("the Authority") has under consideration a 8 Year Framework Agreement for IRM26/7751 The Supply of Thermal Camouflage Sheets & Associated Items CPV codes applicable to this contract are: 39522200 Camouflage covers This Framework Agreement includes 46 items identified as being in scope. The contract value: £9,918,000.00 All items within the scope of requirement are codified to NATO Stock Numbers (NSNs). Tenderers shall be provided with NATO Stock Numbers and shall be informed of any required applicable compliance standards. All items must be supplied compliant to specifications which will be issued with the tender documentation. Cyber Risk Level: 1 RAR Code: RAR-EDC3lWH Babcock Land Defence Limited reserve the right to add further items of a similar nature to the contract post award. The resulting Framework Agreement shall contain a set of Key Performance Indicators to measure performance in areas such as delivery and quality and shall include remedies for poor performance. The Authority shall award the Framework Agreement in accordance with the evaluation criteria which will be detailed in the Invitation to Tender. No business whatsoever is guaranteed under any resulting Framework Agreement indeed there is no guarantee that any Framework Agreement will be put in place in relation to this notice. No compensation etc. will be paid if a tender or resulting Framework Agreement is withdrawn for any reason. Bidders should take part in this process only on the basis that they fully understand and accept this position. Expressions of interest to participate in this requirement are to be submitted on the Defence Sourcing Portal (DSP) by completing the Procurement Specific Questionnaire (PSQ). The PSQ shall be assessed on DSP using the selection criteria given within the PSQ and within each question. It is the intention of the Authority to down select, economic operators who will be invited to tender, only those suppliers who provide all mandatory information and are not subject to a mandatory exclusion.

Procurement Act 2023

Competitive flexible procedure

Defence security

Price must be Firm for the first 12 Months with a Variantion of Price clause being applied for Years 2 to 8. As this is up to 1 Single Operator Framework Agreements no further selection process for the award of contracts is applicable

Tender must be submitted electronically via the Defence Sourcing Portal (DSP) by date and time. The Authority reserves the right to reject any Tender received after the stated date and time. Hard copy, paper or delivered digital Tenders (e.g. email, DVD) at OFFICIAL SENSITIVE classification are no longer required and will not be accepted by the Authority. Tenderers are required to submit an electronic online Tender in response to ITT IRM26/7751 https://www.contracts.mod.uk