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Site Investigations for Offshore Wind Farm and Export Cable Route

As part of a new approximately 800 MW Danish offshore wind farm, Energinet hereby invites potential contractors to pre-qualify for a seabed survey for the project area.

The tendered assignment comprises performance of the following services:

— site investigations, offshore wind farm,

— site investigations, export cable route.

The services shall be performed in The Danish North Sea and/or the Danish Baltic Sea respectively.

Site Investigations, Danish North Sea, Offshore Wind Farm

Danish North Sea.

The assignment includes the following work packages:

— work package A: Geophysical survey.

A geophysical survey must be performed in 2019 with full coverage of the area of investigation. The survey must map the bathymetry, the static and dynamic elements of the seabed surface and the sub-surface geological soil layers to at least 60 m below seabed.

— work package B: Hydrographical survey 2020 (Option).

A repeated hydrographical survey with full coverage of the area of investigation must be performed in 2020 Q3 to investigate dynamic seabed conditions. The scope and work for work package B is requested as an option.

— work package D: Reporting and data delivery.

The results of the offshore investigations shall be processed, interpreted and supplied as a number of reports, charts and a set of digital deliverables.

The water depth in the project area is expected to range between 15 m and 45 m.

The contracting authority is instructed by the Danish Energy Agency to investigate an area in the Danish North Sea covering ca. 440 km² west of central Jutland. This is the scope of the current procurement.

The contracting authority understands that the Danish Energy Agency at some unknown event may terminate further development of the project either in the North Sea or in the Baltic Sea with the aim to progress development for one site only.

The contracting authority understands that the Danish Energy Agency at some unknown event may modify the area of investigation further.

Work package B:

A repeated hydrographical survey with full coverage of the area of investigation must be performed in 2020 Q3 to investigate dynamic seabed conditions. The scope and work for work package B is requested as an option.

Note that this is a negotiated procedure. With the exception of mandatory parts, the tender documents, and requirements set out herein, may be changed as part of the negotiation process. As a result, the contracting authority encourages all economic operators to submit questions concerning the tender documents and apply for pre-qualification even if a requirement may present a challenge initially.

Site Investigations, Danish North Sea, Export Cable Route

Danish North Sea.

The assignment includes the following work packages:

— work package A: offshore cable route survey > 10 m LAT.

A full geophysical seabed survey must be performed in Q3 2019 of entire cable route corridor to the 10 m water-line to map; bathymetry, seabed features, geology and upper soil stratifications.

— work package B: Nearshore and Landfall Survey < 10 m LAT.

A full geophysical seabed survey must be performed in Q3 2019 of entire cable route corridor from the 10 m water-line to landfall and map; bathymetry, seabed features, geology and upper soil stratifications.

— work package C: Geotechnical investigations.

Upon completion and interpretation of the work packages A and B, a geotechnical campaign must be performed to provide the soil parameters of the interpreted soil strata.

— work package E: Reporting and data delivery.

The results of the offshore investigations shall be processed, interpreted and supplied as a number of reports, charts and a set of digital deliverables.

— Work Package F: Hydrographical survey 2020 (Option).

A repeated hydrographical survey with full coverage of the area of investigation must be performed in 2020 Q3 to investigate dynamic seabed conditions. The scope and work for work package F is requested as an option.

The 10 m LAT waterline is indicative and can be subject to change.

The water depth in the project area is expected to range between 0 m and 45 m.

The contracting authority is instructed by the Danish Energy Agency to investigate one or multiple export cable corridors in the Danish North Sea to connect an offshore wind farm to land.

At present this include 2 routes with a total length of ca. 65 km. This is the scope of the current procurement.

The contracting authority understands that the Danish Energy Agency at some unknown event may terminate further development of the project either in the North Sea or in the Baltic Sea with the aim to progress development for one site only.

The contracting authority understands that the Danish Energy Agency at some unknown event may modify the area of investigation further.

Work package F:

A repeated hydrographical survey with full coverage of the area of investigation must be performed in 2020 Q3 to investigate dynamic seabed conditions. The scope and work for work package F is requested as an option.

Note that this is a negotiated procedure. With the exception of mandatory parts the tender documents, and requirements set out herein, may be changed as part of the negotiation process. As a result the contracting authority encourages all economic operators to submit questions concerning the tender documents and apply for pre-qualification even if a requirement may present a challenge initially.

Lot 1

LOT 2

The applicant must submit a completed European Single Procurement Document (ESPD) for each lot combination to apply for pre-qualification for this tender procedure. The ESPD for this tender is included in the EU-Supply system and must be filled in online in the system and submitted via My Response. It is possible to create the exact number of ESPDs necessary to match the number of lots the applicant wishes to apply for.

Please note:

It is mandatory to apply for pre-qualification for one of the following combinations of lots:

— Lot 1 + 3,

— Lot 2 + 4.

It is possible for the applicant to apply for both Lot 1+3 and Lot 2+4

After pre-qualification, the pre-qualified tenderers must submit a tender for each individual lot, he is pre-qualified for. The tenderer can be awarded contract(s) on the following combinations.

— Lot 1,

— Lot 2,

— Lot 3,

— Lot 4,

— Lot 1 + 2,

— Lot 3 + 4,

— Lot 1 + 4,

— Lot 2 + 3.

For further details concerning the pre-qualification and contract award combinations, reference is made to enclosure A – Combination of applications and contract awards (doc. No 19/00654-23) for further information.

Please note:

— an applicant participating on its own, but relying on the capacities of one or more other entities (e.g. a parent or sister company or a subcontractor), must ensure that the application includes the applicant's own ESPD together with a separate ESPD from each of the entities it relies on with a completed Part II: ‘Information concerning the economic operator’ and Part III: ‘Exclusion grounds’ of the ESPD as well as the relevant information regarding Part IV: ‘Selection criteria’ and Part V: ‘Reduction of the number of qualified candidates’. The ESPD from each of the entities should be duly filled and signed by the entities concerned.

Further where an applicant wants to rely on the capacities of other entities, it shall prove to the contracting authority that it will have at its disposal the resources necessary, for example, by producing a commitment by those entities to that effect, which must be submitted as part of the final documentation.

— where groups of economic operators, including temporary associations, participate together in the procurement procedure, a complete separate ESPD for each the participating economic operators must be submitted.

Further the final documentation must include a signed declaration by all parties of the group of economic operators (joint venture, consortium or other) stating that all economic operators assume joint and several liabilities towards the contracting authority for the performance of the contract as a whole.

Internet address: https://erhvervsstyrelsen.dk/klagenaevnet-for-udbud

Complaints regarding a candidate not being pre-qualified must be filed with The Complaints Board for Public Procurement within 20 calendar days starting the day after the contracting authority has sent notification to the candidates involved, provided that the notification includes a short account of the relevant reasons for the decision.

Other complaints must be filed with The complaints board for public procurement within:

1) 45 calendar days after the contracting authority has published a contract award notice in the Official Journal of the European Union (with effect from the day following the publication date);

2) 30 calendar days starting the day after the contracting authority has informed the tenderers in question, that the contracting authority has entered into a contract based on a framework agreement through reopening of competition or a dynamic purchasing system, provided that the notification includes a short account of the relevant reasons for the decision;

3) 6 months starting the day after the contracting authority has sent notification to the candidates/tenderers involved that the contracting authority has entered into the framework agreement, provided that the notification included a short account of the relevant reasons for the decision.

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