Section I: Contracting authority / entity
I.1) Name, addresses and contact point (s) of contact

MINDEF / DGA / DT / SCAT / Toulon
Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs - Directorate General of Armaments-technical management - centralized purchasing techniques-site Toulon - Avenue of the royal court - BP 40915 -
Attention: Mr. President commissions contracts
Toulon Cedex 83050
FRANCE

Address (es):

General address of the contracting authority / entity: http://www.achats.defense.gouv.fr

Address of the buyer profile: http://www.marches-publics.gouv.fr

Electronic Access to Information: http://www.marches-publics.gouv.fr

Submission of tenders and requests to participate electronically: http://www.marches-publics.gouv.fr

Address from which further information can be obtained at: Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs
- Directorate General of Armament-technical management - centralized purchasing techniques - site of Toulon - Avenue of the royal court - BP 40915 -
Attn: Sophie Muscatelli
Toulon Cedex 83050
FRANCE
Phone: +33 422433261
E-mail: @ sophie.muscatelli dga.defense.gouv.fr
Fax: +33 422420245

Address from which specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained: with the contact points or above

Address to which tenders or requests to participate must be sent: Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs
Directorate General of Armaments-technical management - centralized purchasing techniques - site of Toulon - Avenue of the royal court - BP 40915 -
Attn: Ms. Marie-Marguerite Henry
Toulon Cedex 83050
FRANCE
Phone: +33 422433491
E-mail: marie-marguerite.henry @ dga.defense.gouv.fr
Fax: +33 422426582
Internet address: http://www.marches-publics.gouv.fr
I.2) Type of contracting authority
Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local sub
I.3) Main activity
Defense
I.4) Award of contract on behalf of other contracting authorities / entities
The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities No

Section II: Object of the contract
II.1) Description
II.1.1) Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:
Provision of an unmanned surface and payloads for the evaluation of technical concepts.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance
Supplies
Hire
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or performance: Sites DGA in the VAR (83) and the premises of the owner and / or any sub-contractors.

NUTS code FR825
II.1.3) Information on framework agreement
II.1.4) Information on framework agreement
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase / acquisition:
Provision of an unmanned surface and payloads for the evaluation of technical concepts.
The benefits claimed are defined in the additional information.
II.1.6) CPV (Common Procurement Procurement)

42997300, 34520000, 71320000
II.1.7) Information on subcontracting
The contracting authority or entity may require the bidder to execute all contracts or outsourcing some of them in accordance with the procedure set forth in Title III of Directive 2009/81/EC
The successful bidder is required to specify what (s) part (s) of the market it intends to subcontract beyond the percentage imposed and indicate which subcontractors it has already identified
II.1.8) Lots
Division into lots: no
II.1.9) Variants
Variants will be accepted: Yes
II.2) Quantity or scope of the contract
II.2.1) Total quantity or scope:
II.2.2) Information on options
II.2.3) Renewal
II.3) Duration of the contract or limit for completion of work

Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical
III.1) Conditions relating to the contract
III.1.1) Deposits and guarantees required:
III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and / or reference to the relevant provisions regulating them:
Funding is provided solely by budgetary resources specific to the Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs (BOP program to be completed). The system of payments (advance payments and balances) is consistent with the provisions of sections 259 to 281 of the Public Procurement Code. The type and shape of the price of services will be reviewable The payment period is 30 days maximum and implemented in accordance with Decree No. 2002-232 of 21.2.2002 amended. The payment method is direct deposit.
The accounting officer is:
The accountant services armament manufacturers (Acsia).
The Vendome Iii.
11 Rampart Street
93196 Noisy-le-Grand Cedex - FRANCE.
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the grouping of economic operators to be awarded:
In accordance with Article 231 of the Public Procurement Code, applicants must indicate in their application if they come as individual candidate or as a group of economic operators.
The shape of the group is not imposed. However if the candidate is running as a joint group, the agent will be attached to each member of the group for its contractual obligations towards the Contracting Authority for the execution of the entire market.
It is forbidden for candidates to present to the market by doing several offers at once:
1 as candidates and individual members of one or more groups;
2 ° as members of several groups.
The composition of the group can be changed between the submission of applications and the end of the negotiation if all members of the group were allowed to tender or to participate and the newly formed group must meet the requirements for professional skills, technical and financial candidates.
(If above can be expected if circumstances related to the complexity of the technical specifications warrant cf Art 231 of the Public Procurement Code).
III.1.4) Other particular conditions to which is subject to contract performance, particularly with regard to security of supply of services and information security:
III.1.5) Security Clearance:
III.2) Conditions for participation
III.2.1)

Criteria regarding the personal situation of economic operators (which may lead to their exclusion), including requirements relating to their registration with a professional or trade

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: Fill the forms in their entirety DC 1 and DC 2 http://www.minefe.gouv.fr available on the website.

Criteria regarding the personal situation of subcontractors (likely to lead to discharges), including requirements relating to their registration with a professional or trade
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: Educate the DC-4 or if the statement referred to in II of Article 283 of the Public Procurement Code.
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity

Criteria for economic and financial situation of economic operators (which may lead to their exclusion)
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: Fill in the D-1 DC 2.
Level (s) specific (s) minimum (to) demand (s): The financial capacity necessary to ensure the project will be considered for the selection of candidates.

Criteria for economic and financial situation of subcontractors (likely to lead to discharges)
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: Refer to the information in block H of DC4 as appropriate.
Level (s) specific (s) minimum (to) demand (s): The financial capacity of contractors may be taken into account in assessing the financial capacity of candidate.
III.2.3) Technical capacity and / or professional

Criteria for the technical and / or professional traders (could cause their exclusion)
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
Presenting a list of main services provided in the past 3 years, including the nature of the project, the amount, date and recipient.
A statement of the material and human resources available to the candidate for the realization of similar contracts.
Level (s) specific (s) minimum (to) demand (s)
The candidates must provide proof of competency, proficiency or experience in the following areas:
Dronisation surface vehicles or naval design and production of unmanned surface.
Study and integration of payloads.
Candidates who have not demonstrated their skills by any means, in each of the above areas will be eliminated.
Applicants must demonstrate that they have (own or through their subcontractors) of the skills required to perform the contract. If the candidate (or group) is based on other economic operators to justify its professional, technical and financial VI.3 See "Additional Information" of the publication.
III.2.4) Information on set-asides
III.3) Conditions specific to services contracts
III.3.1) Information concerning the profession
III.3.2) Staff responsible for implementing the service

Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Type of procedure
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Negotiated
IV.1.2) Limitations on the number of operators invited to tender or to participate
IV.1.3) Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue
IV.2) Award criteria
IV.2.1) Award criteria
The most economically advantageous tender in terms of the following criteria set forth in the specifications in the invitation to tender or to negotiate or in the descriptive document
IV.2.2) Electronic Bidding
An electronic auction was used: no
IV.3) Administrative information
IV.3.1) Reference number attributed by the contracting authority:
12860113
IV.3.2) Previous publication (s) Previous publication (s) concerning the same contract
IV.3.3) Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document
IV.3.4) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
19/06/2012 - 16:00
IV.3.5) Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates
IV.3.6) Language (s) can be used (s) in which tenders or requests to participate
French.

Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1) Renewal
This is a renewable market: no
VI.2) Information on EU funds
Contract related to a project / program financed by EU funds: no
VI.3) Additional information:
The market is also the subject of a similar publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (Play) using the standard form 17: "Contract notice - defense and security";
This need is within the scope of Part III of the Public Procurement Code (Decree No. 2011-1104 of 09/14/11) in accordance with section 243 under the negotiated procedure.
This proposed procurement is subject to the negotiated tender procedure after prior publication and for competition in accordance with Articles 201-i 1, 34, 243 and 244 of the Public Procurement Code.
Pursuant to Article 248 of the Public Procurement Code, the market is kind of split in slices, one of which is to purchase orders in accordance with Article 251 of the Public Procurement Code no minimum or maximum on a period of 4 years. The estimated expenditure under this purchase order portion of its duration is 300 000.00 EUR (VAT), without involvement of the state.
- Benefits will be realized: the sites of the DGA in the Var (83) (restricted military site) and the premises of the owner and / or any sub-contractors.
This is a first step to make available an unmanned surface (USV) to meet the needs of program evaluation and equipped with different payloads integrated (with nine different configurations of times of availability are defined currently identified) .
It may be asked to study the future holds and whether (if the study is conclusive) the integration of usv on a surface ship of the Navy.
It may also be necessary to order three additional configurations and again one or more of the nine configurations initially performed, may vary over periods as needed.
The above provisions may be modified in the negotiations.
This notice is only a call for nomination phase.
In case of consortium, the representative must ensure the overall coordination of benefits of different co-contractors.
For submission of bids directly to the division purchase, a request for access must be made at least 3 working days in advance, by fax to +33 422426582.
For receipt of applications follow the information in the document "has the support application."

This document "support application" is available for download on the ad detail to this consultation at www.marches publics.gouv.fr-ref: 12860113. This document will provide additional information on the elements necessary to justify when submitting your application. "

Provisional notification date of contract: 4th Quarter 2012.
- Candidate based on other economic operators.
If the candidate (or group) is based on other economic operators to justify its professional, technical and financial, it must provide for each of these operators, the same documents and information as requested by the contracting authority to submit an application (see section III.2 of this notice). Furthermore, it will also be producing a written commitment from each of these operators, working for the candidate and vice versa.
- Information on subcontracting.
It is stated that for this notice, the term "subcontractor" used in this form is understood as the economic operator with which the contractor concludes, for the realization of it, a contract subcontract within the meaning of Law No. 75-1334 of 31.12.1975 concerning the subcontracting or contract lacks the characteristics of a business contract, particularly the latter case, operators relied on the candidate to justify its capabilities.
- Period during which the tenderer must maintain the tender.
The period of bid validity will be indicated in the consultation documents.
- Provisions specific to the dematerialization:
Pursuant to Article 237 of the Public Procurement Code, the Contracting authority authorizes submission via cloud for the entire consultation (submission of applications, withdrawal of tender documents, tender submission) via the platform of purchases of state (Place), available at the buyer profile mentioned above.

To be informed of trade, the applicant must verify that the address of trade with the place " This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it " is accessible or placed on the whitelist filters to pass up proxy servers in the bidding companies . The email address specified in the form relating to the economic operator given by the square will be used as the only way to inform the candidates including any amendments or additional information arising during the proceedings. It is the candidate of checking e-mail regularly.
The responsibility of the Contracting Authority can not be sought if the applicant has provided an incorrect address or if he did not consult his messages in a timely manner.
Any requests for clarification or other correspondence must be sent electronically via the Place. Any application not meeting this requirement will not be taken into account.
When a candidate sends his signed e fold, he receives back an electronic acknowledgment of its filing. Dematerialized kinks which ends after the filing date and deadline time is declared untimely and rejected before being destroyed without being opened. If multiple plies are successively transmitted by the same candidate in dematerialized form in delivery times of folds, the last shipment arrived on time supersedes previous shipments.
The choice of mode of transmission is irreversible.
Naming: it is advisable to name the files transmitted as follows:
Reduced number of marché.nom candidat.nom of document.extension used (eg 12860113.xxx.dc1.pdf).
Formats used for electronic transmission:
Only widely available file formats are supported: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, pdf, jpg, zip (winzip, etc filzip.) Or equivalent, all compatible PC. For information, the maximum size of the fold deposited may not exceed 300 MB (megabytes = millions of bytes).
In case of consortium, the agent provides security and authenticity of information transmitted on behalf of the group members.
The Dc1 must be signed electronically by the candidate. In case of co-contracting, the Dc1 must be signed electronically and individually by each member of the group, before being integrated into the fold. In section H of Dc1 "Signature of applicant or each individual member of the group", in addition to the usual information "Name and title of the signatory", the candidate indicates the name of the signing certificate used and signing tool unused.
Backup:
Traders have the opportunity to restore a backup on physical media electronic or paper within the time allowed for submission of applications.
The sealed envelope containing the backup copy will be sent to the address given at the end of paragraph I.1 of this notice advertising. The inner envelope must imperatively be legible and contain the word "backup" and the "name of the applicant company".
Without prejudice to Article 237 on the backup, the application is transmitted at once.
The backup will only be opened:
When a malicious computer program is detected in the applications submitted electronically. The trace of this malevolence is kept.
2 When an application has been filed electronically and did not reach in time or could not be opened, provided that the backup copy is received on time.
Detection of a malicious computer program in an application:
Any document containing a malicious computer program will be an archive of security, to keep track of malice, and shall be deemed never to have been received. The candidate concerned will be informed, under the conditions laid down in Article 253 of the Public Procurement Code.
However, for an electronic document of a candidacy that has not been repaired or whose repair has failed, it may be decided pursuant to Section I of Article 233 of the Public Procurement Code and ask the trader to make a new shipment of the document. To proceed to the new shipment, the time allowed to the trader may not exceed 10 days. Under these conditions, it is recommended that applicants submit their documents in an anti-virus software before sending.
Attendance:

In case of difficulties on the platform of the state purchases (Place), assistance is available to businesses in 33 176,647,407. E-mail support (only in case of unavailability of phone support) are also available at: @ place.support atexo.com.
Details of the electronic signature:
In accordance with Articles 1316-1 to 1316-4 of the Civil Code and Decree No. 2001-272 of 30.3.2001, as amended by Decree No. 2002-535 of 18.4.2002, traders must electronically sign the applications by presenting an electronic signature certificate. It is not necessary or recommended, to attach documents with a digital signature. This certificate must be issued by an accredited certification authority and can make the link between an individual and the electronically signed document.
Place provides traders a free signature tool. The Contracting Authority requires the use of this signature tool. If the candidate uses a different signature tool, it will make available to the Contracting Authority on a permanent, definitive and free tool corresponding signature verification.

Categories of authorized Signing Certificates as well as ways to obtain them are indicated by the cross-cutting security repository and the list published at the following address: http://www.industrie.gouv.fr/tic/certificats/ .
Costs of network access and use of electronic signature shall be borne by each candidate. Given the limitations of electronic means, the candidate must take all necessary measures in particular calendar to submit an application under the best conditions.
Applicants are reminded that the electronic signature must be affixed directly to each file requiring a signature. Signature "of a zip file" containing several documents itself is not worth signing of each document and the documents will be considered unsigned therefore declared non-compliant. The absence of electronic signature on a document that requires one, led to the rejection of the bid.
- Language.
In accordance with Article 219 V, the documents submitted in support of applications in a language other than French must be accompanied by a certified translation into French of the original by an official translator. In case of contradiction between the two documents, the French version is one faith.
Date of dispatch of this notice in the OJEU and the BOAMP: 10.5.2012.
VI.4) Procedures for appeal
VI.4.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures

Administrative Court Toulon
5 rue Racine - BP 40510
83041 Toulon
FRANCE
E-mail: @ greffe.ta-toulon juradm.fr
Phone: +33 494427930
Internet address: http://www.toulon.tribunal-administratif.fr
Fax: +33 494427989
VI.4.2) Lodging of appeals
VI.4.3) Service from which information can be obtained on the lodging of appeals

Administrative Court Toulon
5 rue Racine - BP 40510
83041 Toulon
FRANCE
E-mail: @ greffe.ta-toulon juradm.fr
Phone: +33 494427930
Internet address: http://www.toulon.tribunal-administratif.fr
Fax: +33 494427989
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice:
05/10/2012