Public procurement notice: Qualification System With Call For Competition
Published: 2019-06-18
Buyer: Energinet Forretningsservice A/S
Country: DK
Contract type: Works
CPV classification: 45250000 | 45253000 | 45253400 | 45255300 | 45259900
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Energinet intends to establish a Supplier Qualification System (‘SQS’) for the procurement of contractors for gas receiving terminal projects. The scope of work for construction and installation contracts to be tendered under this SQS, may include construction of the following items:
The SQS is intended for the procurement of Contractors for gas receiving terminal projects such as the baltic pipe project, as well as for other projects on the Danish transmission system. The SQS may be used for the award of both contracts and Framework Agreements. Energinet is not obligated to purchase solely from the SQS, and may in connection with single-standing purchas-es choose to tender these independently.
The scope of the SQS is the supply of contractors for gas receiving terminal projects which interested companies have to document competences, experiences and references within.
Category 1) Contractors for gas receiving terminal projects, for further details on the scope of the SQS please refer to the document – Guide to SQS – on EU-Supply.
Conditions to be fulfilled by economic operators in view of their qualification:/methods according to which each of those conditions will be verified:
applicants may not be subject to the mandatory grounds for exclusion, cf. the Danish Public Procurement Act (udbudsloven) Section 135 (1-3) and 136.
The applicant must meet the minimum requirements concerning economic and financial standing. The information must be submitted in the ESPD part IV.A. The applicant must in this respect, in the latest annual report, meet the following requirements: the equity (total equity incl. share capital, reserves, revaluation, retained earning, etc.) must be at least 50 MEUR and the equity ratio (equity/total assets) must be at least 20 %. If the equity ratio is between 15 % and 20 % the applicant can only be accepted, if equity exceeds 75 MEUR.
The applicants must meet the minimum requirements concerning technical and professional ability for references. The applicant must in this respect submit references. The applicant must include the up to 10 most comparable and relevant references undertaken in the past ten (10) years as part of the application. The references must be stated in the ESPD Part IV.C: ‘Technical and professional ability’. Undertaken in the past ten (10) years implies that the reference must not have been completed prior to the date reached when counting ten 10 years backwards from the submission date for application.
Certificates of satisfactory performance by the entity (if issued) should also be submitted as a supplement to the ESPD.
Any ambiguities and/or incomprehensibilities concerning the above information may have a negative effect on the evaluation of the candidate’s suitability. Please note the ‘description’ box can contain more text than is visible. I.e. it is possible to copy paste text into the box.
The Contracting Authority expects to use the data and descriptions of the references in the ESPD as an important objective criterion when selecting suppliers for future tenders. Thus, it’s of significant importance that the applicants fill in the reference descriptions as detailed as possible.
For admittance to the category of the SQS, the applicant must meet the following minimum requirements related to references:
At least 2 of the references must be for installation works on a transmission system natural gas plant of a value of at least 15 MEUR (i.e. compressor station, receiving terminal and storage).
The applicants must meet the minimum requirements concerning technical and professional ability for standards. In the ESPD part IV.D, the Applicant must provide information about certificates and/or descriptions of standards concerning QA and HSE.
contractor shall have implemented and maintained quality assurance standards or QA/QC programs in compliance with ISO9001 (or equivalent) for the duration of the SQS.