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
- Maritime and Coastguard Agency · Maritime Safety and Standards. HM Coastguard.
- Supplier
- Bristow Helicopters Limited
- Value
- Not published
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Security, fire & defence equipment · Search and rescue helicopters (CPV 35612500)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 037751-2024 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Nov 2024
- Published22 Nov 2024Published 21 days after the contract date
Description
CAESAR was implemented as a dedicated Channel capability, under the existing UK Search and Rescue Helicopter (UKSARH) service provision, freeing the MCA's Air Surveillance and Verification service, which had been providing a stop-gap interim service, to return to delivering the role it was designed for, whilst providing a structured service which better meet the operational need of HMCG in the English Channel. The UK Second Generation Search and Rescue Aviation programme (UKSAR2G), which will subsume both current Search and Rescue Helicopter and fixed wing Air Surveillance and Verification contracts, will come into effect between October 2024 and December 2026. However, since the incident data used to inform the UKSAR2G service was based on data up to the end of 2019, and small boat crossings have risen since that data, the data used to inform the UKSAR2G procurement is not reflective of the current demand in the Channel; UKSAR2G service provision cannot meet the national requirement …
About the supplier
Bristow Helicopters Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00551102).