Indra has been awarded a contract valued at 1.65 million euros, excluding taxes, to carry out the maintenance of the electronic, optical, and optronic systems installed in the armored vehicles of the Army.
The administrative documentation of the file, to which Europa Press has had access, sets the expected date for both the start and completion of the execution as November 30 of this year, without considering the possibility of an extension.
As stated in the formalization announcement published by the Ministry of Defense in the Official State Gazette (BOE), the award has been processed by the Economic Affairs Headquarters of the Logistics Support Command of the Army and falls within an already existing framework agreement.
This type of framework agreement acts as a general contract that establishes conditions and rates between the Administration and its suppliers, while the contracts based on it, like the one now awarded, are specific or lower-value orders that are formalized individually following the rules set in that agreement.
In application of that framework agreement with Defense, Indra received at the end of June a request from the Department to submit its proposal for this contract, whose base bidding budget –including taxes– amounts to 2 million euros. The award is therefore made directly.
The framework agreement currently in force establishes that both this contract and the others that are signed under its auspices have a period of responsibility and quality guarantee of 3 years from the provision and delivery of the services. During that interval, the awarded company, in this case Indra, must remedy at no additional cost any breakdown, defect, or incident that may arise.
Escribano obtains another contract with the Army
The Ministry of Defense has also published in the BOE the award to Escribano Mechanical & Engineering (EM&E) of a contract with the Army for the maintenance of a verification arm, for an amount of 20,661 euros excluding taxes.
These articulated three-dimensional measurement arms are commonly used in the parks and maintenance centers of the Armed Forces to check and certify with millimetric precision the dimensions of complex mechanical components of vehicles or weapon systems.
As in the case of Indra, this contract is based on a framework agreement and sets the estimated execution date for November 30, with no option for extension. The base bidding budget for this file is set at 25,000 euros, taxes included.