Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2021-12-07
Buyer: Helen Ltd.
Country: FI
Contract type: Works
CPV classification: 43123000 | 45000000: Construction work | 45221246 | 45244100 | 71240000

Technical requirements: The purpose of this market dialogue (EU prior information notice) is for Helen Ltd. to activate the dialogue regarding the project alliance for Sea Water Heat Recovery System and scan the willingness of the suppliers to participate in the EU procurement of the project. In addition, Helen Ltd. will develop the project and it's implementation format together with the potential suppliers, and seeks for feedback regarding the implementation model of the procurement procedure, especially on the amount of the potential tenderer consortia.
Market dialogue as a method is recommended by the Public Procurement Act to map solutions on the market for specifying and developing the procurement.
This market dialogue (EU prior information notice) is neither actual EU procurement notification nor request for quotation. This market dialogue will be executed to serve as a preparation phase of the actual procurement.
The market dialogue (EU prior information notice) and given responses are not binding to either of the parties (client & supplier). By executing this market dialogue, Helen Ltd. will not commit to execute the actual procurement.
Helen Ltd. as the Contracting Authority has been conducting a preliminary feasibility study during 2020-2021 on different alternatives for sea water heat recovery. Drivers for the project are Helen's carbon neutrality goals and decision to mainly replace fossil-based production with non-combustion-based energy sources, such as various waste and environmental heat sources.
The Sea Water Heat Recovery Project concept aims for year-round district heating production with industrial-sized heat pump plant, a long sea water intake tunnel and a shorter sea water discharge tunnel. Starting point for the design is 300-500 MW district heating output. Location for heat pump equipment is planned to be in Helen Ltd.’s Salmisaari power plant area in Helsinki, Finland.
17 kilometres of intake tunnel construction is conceived to be carried out with TBM (tunnel boring machine) technology. Other tunnel construction works such as maximum of 9 kilometres of a discharge tunnel are likely to be performed using drilling & exploding method.
The project comprises of two parts: 1. Sea Water Heat Recovery System and 2. Salmisaari Heat Pump Plant. This EU prior information notice focuses on the Sea Water Heat Recovery System.
Project Alliancing is considered as a project delivery method for Sea Water Heat Recovery System due to the complexity and cooperation requirements of the project.
Helen Ltd.'s main target in this procurement is to find a first-class project alliance group covering all needed sectors to execute the Sea Water Heat Recovery System part of the project. The second part (Salmisaari Heat Pump Plant) is preliminary planned to form an option of this procurement.
Helen Ltd. has done preparations for the procurement to be performed as a consortium where project alliance partners would consist of Helen Ltd., construction partner, TBM partner and engineering consultant partner. Project alliance would then cover all following sectors:
Helen Ltd. will develop the project and its delivery method together with the potential suppliers, and seeks for feedback regarding the procurement procedure, especially the amount of the potential tenderer consortia.
In actual procurement phase after the market dialogue, Competitive Dialogue (CD) is chosen as the procurement procedure.
With this EU prior information notice, Helen Ltd. invites interested suppliers to enroll in the market dialogue on the procurement preparation phase. Each candidate is requested to enroll by Thursday 9th of December at 13:00 o'clock (local time in Finland, UTC+2) by sending an email with the title: "Sea Water Heat Recovery System" to the address:
Helen Ltd. is familiar with the tight schedule for market dialogue enrollments and preparations, but Helen Ltd. wishes to complete market dialogues in 2021 to keep the schedule for procurement preparations.