Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2023-07-11
Buyer: Energinet Eltransmission A/S
Country: DK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 71313000: Environmental engineering consultancy services | 71313400
Estimated value: 3739588 EUR
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: In order to enable the political goal for more offshore wind in Denmark before the end of 2030, it has been decided with the ‘Climate Agreement June 2022’, to initiate feasibility and pre-investigations studies for all the attractive offshore wind areas identified in the 2022 screening. Against this background, the Minister of Climate, Energy and Supply has instructed Energinet to carry out marine environmental studies for the planned offshore wind farms.
Lot 1 of the current tender concerns consultancy services for undertaking a number of marine environmental studies concerning the planned areas in the North Sea.
Lot 1 also includes an option to undertake marine environmental investigations for Area 2 for North Sea I with expected commencement in Q1 2024. See Scope of Services section 2 (document number 22/03837-6) for further information.
Please note that this is a negotiated procedure. With the exception of mandatory parts, the Tender Documents may as a result undergo changes as part of the negotiation process.
In order to enable the political goal for more offshore wind in Denmark before the end of 2030, it has been decided with the ‘Climate Agreement June 2022’, to initiate feasibility and pre-investigations studies for all the attractive offshore wind areas identified in the 2022 screening. Against this background, the Minister of Climate, Energy and Supply has instructed Energinet to carry out marine environmental studies for the planned offshore wind farms.
Lot 2 of the current tender concerns consultancy services for undertaking a number of marine environmental studies concerning the planned areas in Kattegat and the western Baltic Sea.
Please note that this is a negotiated procedure. With the exception of mandatory parts, the Tender Documents may as a result undergo changes as part of the negotiation process.
The applicant must submit a completed ESPD to apply for prequalification for this tender procedure. The ESPD for this tender can be found via EU-supply. The ESPD must be completed in EU-Supply and submitted via “My Response”. A guide to the ESPD can be found on the webpage of the Competition and Consumer Authority (www.kfst.dk)  in Danish (the Contracting Authority is not responsible for the content of the guide).
-	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 applicants 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 of 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.
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.
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);


Winner: WSP Danmark A/S
Award value: 3739588