Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2023-09-04
Buyer: Energinet Gastransmission A/S
Country: DK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71310000 | 71312000: Structural engineering consultancy services | 71315100
Submission deadline: 2023-10-02
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: To ensure a long-term integrity and corrosion prevention at Energinets vital compressor station at Everdrup, a part of the Baltic Pipe project, Energinet are seeking a team of experienced engineers with expertise in cathodic protection to advise and assist in evaluating, optimizing, and maintaining our existing system at Compressor station Everdrup.
The applicant must confirm the economic ability in the ESPD part IV.B: “Economic and financial standing” with information from the latest annual report regarding the following economic indicators:
If the applicant is relying on the capacities of one or more other entities (e.g. a parent or sister company or a subcontractor) or the applicant is a group of economic operators (e.g. a consortium) the information for the ESPD part IV.B must also be given in a separate ESPD from each of these entities, cf. section VI.3 “Additional information”. It is the sole responsibility of the applicant to secure that the minimum level(s) of standards required are reached on the basis of consolidation when the applicant is relying on the capacity of other entities or when the applicant is a group of economic operators (e.g. a consortium).
Concerning 1: Equity from the latest annual report must, at the time of applying, be at least EUR 200,000.00.
Concerning 2: Equity ratio from the latest annual report must, at the time of applying, be at least 20 pct. If the equity ratio is between 15 pct. and 20 pct. the applicant can qualify if Equity exceeds EUR 500,000.00.
Applicants may not be subject to the mandatory grounds for exclusion, cf. the Danish Public Procurement Act (Udbudsloven) Section 134a, 135 (1-3) and 136.
Please see section VI.3 “Additional information” for further information regarding the ESPD. The application must be submitted through EU-Supply, cf. link in section I.1 in this notification. Applications not submitted via EU-Supply or received after the deadline will not be accepted.
The Contracting Authority reserves the right to request the applicant to supplement, specify or complete the information submitted.
If the agreements are awarded to a group of economic operators (e.g. a consortium) the participants are required to undertake joint and several liabilities and to appoint one economic operator to represent the group.
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 crite-ria” 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.