Health and Usage Monitoring System Next Generation (HUM - NG).

Descriptions

Military vehicles and associated parts. Data-communications equipment. Data network management services. Health and Usage Monitoring System – Next Generation (HUMS NG). The Authority has a requirement for an end to end service provision for a Health and Usage Monitoring System (HUMS) to be used on the Protected Mobility (PM) fleet of approximately 3000 vehicles consisting of 15 different types with sub variants (with options for an increase to 5000 vehicles with several further types). The HUMS-NG capability must enable the collection of system data through automated processes that do not require human intervention, manipulation or manual data input. The service provider will provide analysis of this data to allow the Authority to make timely through-life fleet management decisions. This requirement has a taut delivery Programme with the Husky vehicle fleet (325 vehicles) fitted with HUMS by October 2015 and the entire Protected Mobility fleet fitted by June 2016. The service provider shall be responsible for:— the design, systems integration, testing and evaluation and installation of a HUMS device on each PM vehicle ensuring that the performance and capability of the vehicle is not reduced in any way;— working with the relevant Platform and Sub-Systems Design Authorities to enable fitting of the HUMS system and extraction of vehicle data— securely transmitting and storing the Authority owned data;— supporting DE&S and Army decision-making by analysing data and presenting information as reports and recommendations through a management information system compatible with the Authority's DIIF system;— supporting the entire hardware and software solution through life, including the provision for DE&S and Army Users to adjust and amend the output as information requirements mature whilst in service.— the resolution of Safety, Security and ECM accreditation constraints.Expressions of Interest are now invited from companies who are able to provide the service. Expressions of Interest shall be submitted via the DCO by completion of the Dynamic Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (DPQQ), attached to this Contract Notice. Failure to complete the DPQQ will result in no further involvement in this Project.Prospective bidders may only seek clarification on questions through the DPQQ portal, the cut-off date for clarification questions is before 17:00 hrs on the 25.4.2014. Prospective bidder's attention is drawn to paragraph X (Clarification Process) of the Introduction of the DPQQ.The Authority will accept supplementary documentary evidence in support of their DPQQ response; this should be submitted to the commercial officer named at Section 1 no later than 17:00 hrs on 12.5.2014.Prospective bidders are expected to provide details of previous experience, qualifications of standards achieved and any relevant testing data which is relevant to this Contract Notice. Evidence of all such experience, qualifications and test data should be submitted to the commercial officer named in Section 1 no later than 17:00 hrs on 12.5.2014.Any company failing to achieve an overall score of 53 % or greater against the DPQQ marking criteria shall be considered unacceptable and will not be taken forward to the tender stage. As a maximum the top 5 companies receiving the highest scores against the DPQQ marking criteria will be invited to tender. In the event of tie, the bidders receiving the highest scores against DPQQ questions 1, 3 and 6 will be invited to tender.Following DPQQ down select, but prior to the issue of the Invitation to Tender (ITT) all selected tenderers will be given the opportunity to survey the platforms covered by the HUMS requirement, locations and dates of the surveys are yet to be determined.At this stage the Authority does not have a funding line for this requirement. This advert has therefore been issued in anticipation that funding will be approved, but the Authoritys requirement, needs, priorities or applications may subsequently change. Thus the issue of this advert is not to be construed as a commitment by the Authority to place any subsequent order as a result of this DPQQ exercise. Bidders that respond to this DPQQ do so at their own risk.For the purpose of Regulation 17 (The Restricted Procedure) of DSPCR 2011, the Authority will not accept any variant bids.DPQQ's shall be submitted no later than 17:00 hrs on 12th May 2014 using the DPQQ portal. The Authority is unable to consider late or incomplete DPQQ's.