Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2023-03-24
Buyer: HOFOR A/S
Country: DK
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 45232221 | 51111000 | 51111300
Submission deadline: 2023-04-11
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: This tender concerns a turnkey contract for the installation of on-shore substations for the Bjørnstrup Wind Farm project concerning the erection and installation of 6 on-shore wind turbines in Bjørnstrup, Northern Jutland, Denmark.
The tender covered by these tender conditions relates to the procurement of an onshore substation, including design, manufacturing, delivery, transport, installation, testing and commissioning of an SF6 free onshore substation, including all civil works within the substation area. The Contract will have an expected execution period of approximately 12 - 14 months.
If the number of compliant requests received exceeds the number stated above, HOFOR will conduct a selection among these applicants. Based on the lists of references, HOFOR will select the applicants that to substantially extent match the contract tendered. With regards to applicants relying on the technical and professional capabilities of other entities, the selection will be based on all references submitted in correlation to the request, cf. section 3.2.2 in the tender conditions.
The specific content of each reference, relevance and comparability with the contract tendered will be given the greatest importance, while the number of references is a secondary consideration in the selection.
In the selection of applicants, HOFOR will place emphasis on whether the applicant has the sufficient economic and financial capacity to perform the contract. The applicant must, as a minimum, meet the following requirements:
-	Revenue within the area of the contract (most recent financial year) must be Euro 3 million or more.
If the applicant has not existed as a company for a period of three years, key figures for the period of time in which the applicant has existed as a company must be provided. The minimum requirements will only apply for the period of time in which the applicant has existed as a company.
For associations (e.g. a consortium), the solvency ratio and the profit margin of the association are calculated as the value of the association’s combined equity relative to the combined assets of the association, expressed in percentage terms, and its combined profit before tax relative to its combined revenue, expressed in percentages.
If the applicant relies on the economic capability of other associations, HOFOR will calculate the applicant’s solvency ratio and profit margin as the value of the equity of the applicant and such other associations combined relative to their combined assets, expressed in percentages, and as the combined profits before tax of the applicant and such other associations relative to the combined revenue of the applicant and the other entities, expressed in percentage terms.
In the selection of applicants, HOFOR will place emphasis on whether the applicant has the sufficient economic and financial capacity to perform the contract. The applicant must, as a minimum, meet the following requirements:
-	Revenue within the area of the contract (most recent financial year) must be Euro 3 million or more.
HOFOR has defined the following minimum requirements for the technical and professional capabilities of tenderers:
For the evaluation of technical and professional capabilities, the applicant must state in the ESPD the applicant’s significant work/deliverables under similar projects with a capacity of min. 60 MW that are performed within the past three years. The applicant can enclose reference sheets or similar annexes that describe and illustrate such references, if reference is made to the ESPD.
Economic operators, including any sub-suppliers of applicants will be excluded from participation, if the economic operator is covered by the mandatory grounds for exclusion under §§ 135-136 of the Danish Public Procurement Act.
If a tender is submitted by a consortium or a partnership, consisting of several liable tenderers, each of the legal entities must be clearly and unambiguously named, and moreover, a joint mandate (project manager) must be stated with whom HOFOR with legally binding effect on the consortium may enter into a contract with.