John Blakeley
29th Nov 2007, 19:36
Apologies if this has been picked up before, but I cannot see it and I think it will be of interest to many - the following is from the EU Journal:
Summary of Requirements / Description of Work:SAR-H is a cross Government Project between the Ministry of Defence and the Department for Transport (Maritime and Coastal Agency) and the SAR-H IPT is a joint MoD/MCA procurement team. SAR-H seeks to replace the SAR Helicopter capability currently provided by the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy using Sea Kings and the MCA, through a service contract. The MoD and MCA together provide a 24 hour SAR service for the UK SAR region from 12 bases around the UK.
It is anticipated that the new capability will cover a period of approximately 20 to 30 years at an estimated value, excluding VAT, of between 3,000,000,000 and 5,000,000,000 GBP and that the service will be phased in from 2012 when the MCA service contract is due to expire.
The Competition is being run under the Private Finance Initiative using the Competitive Dialogue procedure. This is the first of three Invitations to Tender being issued in order to progressively down select solutions.
Summary of Requirements / Description of Work:SAR-H is a cross Government Project between the Ministry of Defence and the Department for Transport (Maritime and Coastal Agency) and the SAR-H IPT is a joint MoD/MCA procurement team. SAR-H seeks to replace the SAR Helicopter capability currently provided by the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy using Sea Kings and the MCA, through a service contract. The MoD and MCA together provide a 24 hour SAR service for the UK SAR region from 12 bases around the UK.
It is anticipated that the new capability will cover a period of approximately 20 to 30 years at an estimated value, excluding VAT, of between 3,000,000,000 and 5,000,000,000 GBP and that the service will be phased in from 2012 when the MCA service contract is due to expire.
The Competition is being run under the Private Finance Initiative using the Competitive Dialogue procedure. This is the first of three Invitations to Tender being issued in order to progressively down select solutions.