Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-11-11
Buyer: Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72212518
Estimated value: 230000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-12-07
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: ORE Catapult (https://ore.catapult.org.uk) is the UK's leading technology innovation and research centre for offshore renewable energy. ORE Catapult’s vision is to be the world’s leading offshore renewable energy technology centre by 2030. ORE Catapult will play a key role in delivering the UK’s largest clean growth opportunity, through our mission to accelerate the creation and growth of UK companies in the offshore renewable energy sector. We will use our unique facilities and research and engineering capabilities to bring together industry and academia and drive innovation in renewable energy.
The Multi-Platform Inspection, Maintenance and Repair in extreme environments (“MIMRee”) project (https://ore.catapult.org.uk/press-releases/mimree-inspection-repair-solution/) has been funded by Innovate UK and its aim is to provide a step-change in offshore wind farm Operations & Maintenance (“O&M”) by removing the requirement for humans to travel to site for the inspection, maintenance and repair of offshore wind turbine blades. This will significantly reduce the costs and turbine downtime associated with these tasks, as well as mitigate the H&S risks of using rope access technicians.
As the partner responsible for testing and demonstration within the project, ORE Catapult is seeking to procure a solution for a simulated testing environment, denoted as the Synthetic Test and Unified Demonstration System (STUDS).
(b) Provide a common simulated “environment” with scenarios that can interact with, stimulate and record responses in connected sub-systems;
(d) Provide a growth path that enables the simultaneous connection of all subsystems to a common “end-to-end” simulation that can validate the decision-making at each of the interfaces (take off/landing of the aerial vehicle, drop-off/collection of the blade crawling robot) in different environmental and operational conditions.
Utilising results of the testing in the STUDS, ORE Catapult will provide feedback to the project partners to advance their technology development and system interoperability. see scope of work for further details.
The Contractor shall note that ORE Catapult is expecting the Service to be fully complete and commissioned no later than 14 May 2021
The initial Term shall be for a period of four (4) months with an option to extend for up to a further period of twelve (12) months but only if the Optional Support at 4,1 be required. The Contract has an indicative start date of 14 January 2021.
In the first instance, all appeals should be promptly brought to the attention of the contact specified in Section I above, and will be dealt with in accordance with the requirements of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Any appeals must be brought within the timescales specified by the applicable law, including without limitation, the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. In accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, the contracting authority will also incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period from the date information on award of contract is communicated to tenderers.
As the UK does not have any special review body with responsibility for appeal/mediation procedures in public procurement competitions, any challenges will be dealt with by the High Court, Commercial Division, to which proceedings may be issued regarding alleged breaches of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.


Award value: 230000