711435452 - Ground Training Maintenance Support (GTMS) - Contracts Finder Opportunity Notice

The Authority has a remit to provide ongoing maintenance and post design support to Synthetic Training Aids (STE) used for Tri-Service aircraft maintenance, ground and rear crew training until the Out of Service Date (OSD) of the equipment. Failure to deliver defined training outputs could lead to training deficiencies on those passing through training and impact the ability of delivering capabilities to the front line but also assist mitigate risk to life activities. The majority of equipment's support training conducted by the following Customer Groups: a. RAF 1 Group; b. RAF 2 Group; c. RAF 22 (Training) Group, primarily the Defence School of Aeronautical Engineering (DSAE) and the Defence College of Technical Training; d. RAF 38 Group primarily Royal Air Force Centre of Aviation Medicine (RAFCAM).

It is anticipated that there shall be several components of this requirement. These shall be conducted by suitably qualified and experienced resources, including; a. 'Preventative Maintenance' which is defined as systematic and prescribed work carried out at prescribed intervals or usages, and is carried out to reduce the probability of failure or to mitigate degradation. b. 'Corrective Maintenance' which is defined as unscheduled maintenance that is carried out after the item/system has failed in order to restore it to a functioning state. An unscheduled or corrective maintenance task would be carried out after a fault was recognised to effect restoration. c. Ad-Hoc tasking is defined as any work to the original equipment, or its records to maintain safety, cost, operational use, reliability and/or maintainability, to the agreed operational/functional base line standard. d. Post Design Services (PDS) is defined as work required to undertake discrete tasks not part of the larger repair and maintenance task e.g. disposal and/or investigations.

The STEs are located at a number of bases, primarily: a. Defence Schools of Aeronautical Engineering (DSAE) Cosford, b. Ministry of Defence (MOD) Lyneham, c. Royal Navy Air Engineering and Survival School (RNAESS) Gosport, d. RAF Brize Norton.

Other sites may include, but not necessarily limited to: a. RAF Cranwell, b. RAF Henlow, c. RAF Odiham, d. RAF Wittering, e. RAF St. Athan, f. RAF Conningsby, g. RAF Lossiemouth, h. RAF Mawgan i. Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) Yeovilton.

Cyber Security: For the purposes of Cyber Security this requirement has been assessed with a Cyber Risk Profile: Very Low. The Risk Assessment Reference is RAR-240227A02. The Authority's intention is to place a contract that will have a duration of up to 7 years, which will be comprised of 5 core years, with the addition of two 12-month optional periods.