Published date: 25 October 2019
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Awarded contract (published 25 November 2019)
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Contract summary
Industry
Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security - 79000000
Location of contract
South East
Value of contract
£100,000
Procurement reference
700015312 - VTN
Published date
25 October 2019
Closing date
8 November 2019
Contract start date
29 November 2019
Contract end date
27 March 2020
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Single tender action (below threshold)
A direct contract with a single supplier, without competition.
This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
No
Description
This is a Voluntary Transparency Notice to advise of the intent to award a contract to BMNT Partners LLC to provide pipeline enhancement to Navy Command's NEMESIS project.
Background: As directed by the Second Sea Lord, NEMESIS has been established to accelerate the delivery of cutting-edge innovative technology across the Naval Service. As a fundamental element of demonstrating Navy Transformation's tangible success, NEMESIS is focused on achieving four benefits across all Use Cases: Digital, Autonomy and Lethality, via enhanced Agility. In delivering this, chaired by ACNS(Cap), NEMESIS is attempting to cohere the combined efforts of multiple areas of the Naval Service including, but not limited to, DARE, NELSON, MarWorks, NavyX, 700X NAS (RN UAS Squadron), 1710 NAS, MASTT, FCF and more.
Requirement: To develop the NEMESIS pipeline, where these benefits can be delivered, the CTO proposes to source professional services to enable us to upskill our own Tech & Innovation community to go faster, better, cheaper and more coherently, by learning from others' experiences and developing our own, repeatable system fit for our unique, complex needs. CTO proposes contracting directly with BMNT for the specific services. Being the market leader in this field and having a proven validated and trademarked business model for the innovation pipeline this would allow for the right expertise to be in place to drive forward the development of NEMESIS. BMNT are currently the company which has a pipeline process developed exclusively for the military Tech & Innovation sector. BMNT are a Silicon-Valley and London-based organisation with experience of working with CIA's In-Q-Tel, USN's ONR, SOCOM's SOFWerx, DOD's DIU, USAAF's AFWorks and more delivering their trademarked H4X process. Governmental and particularly Defence working brings in a whole new level of constraints that are not found in the civil sector. No other company in UK has experience or a product developed for military innovation pipelines. To date, OCTO and MOD's Defence Innovation Unit (DIU) know of only of BMNT that is dedicated to developing military innovation pipelines. Their pipeline methodologies are trademarked, proven and not licenced for use by third parties.
About the buyer
Contact name
Isabel King
Address
Room 303, Bldg 1/80
Jago Road, HMNB Portsmouth
Portsmouth
PO1 3LU
England
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