Awarded without open competition
Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Ministry of Defence · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- HII Unmanned Systems
- Value
- £8,000,000
- Procedure
- Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
- Sector
- Sports, games & art materials · Diving instruments or accessories (CPV 37412240)
- Official notice
- 022320-2024 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date18 Jul 2024
- Published18 Jul 2024Published the same day
Description
There is a current contract between the Authority and HII Unmanned Systems Inc, for the continued support of Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUV) consisting of REMUS 100 and 600 systems, which has been in place since 2021. REMUS systems are military use versions of commercially available UUVs, which are remotely operated shallow water hydrographical seabed mapping systems, and were developed and manufactured by HII Unmanned Systems Inc. HII Unmanned Systems Inc retain all IPR and technical knowledge for all REMUS systems, which is strictly enforced by the US Department of Defence meaning all repairs and maintenance of the systems needs to be done by HII as they are the only suitably qualified and experienced contractor that can safely maintain, re-calibrate and re-program existing systems to ensure it is safe to use. This includes sole ownership and all rights in all technical and business information, test reports, ideas, designs, maintenance information and materials pertaining to the…
About the supplier
HII Unmanned Systems: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company FC029366).