Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2024-09-11
Buyer: TenneT Offshore GmbH
Country: DE
Region: DE242
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated with prior call for competition
CPV classification: 66518000
Estimated value:  EUR
Submission deadline: 2024-09-24
Award criteria: price, quality

Technical requirements: § 123 and §124 Restraint of Competition Act (“GWB”) apply.
The tender will take place exclusively digitally via the Mercell S2C platform. All information about this tender is available to Tenderers within this platform. Further explanations on digital tendering can be found here.


Introduction
In this introduction the tenderer will find, among other things, information about TenneT TSO B.V. and TenneT Offshore GmbH, hereinafter referred to as TenneT, the special sector company, the procedure and the contract. The TenneT Group provides a Legal Overview below.

The tender will take place exclusively digitally via the Mercell S2C platform. All information about this tender is available to Tenderers within this platform.
Further explanations on digital tendering can be found here.


The contracting authority is TenneT
TenneT is a leading European Transmission System Operator (TSO) with its main activities in the Netherlands and Germany. With more than 25,000 kilometres of high-voltage lines, we ensure a reliable and secure supply of electricity to 43 million end-users. With approximately 7,400 employees, we realise a turnover of EUR 4.1 billion for the first half of 2024 and a total asset value of EUR 46 billion. TenneT is one of the largest investors in national and international electricity grids on land and at sea. Our focus is on developing an integrated Northwest European energy market and facilitating the energy transition. TenneT is committed to meeting society's needs by being responsible, engaged and connected. Taking power further.
More information about TenneT can be found here.


Tender Procedure
TenneT is a "contracting entity" subject to the Dutch Public Procurement Act 2012 and respectively § 15 (1) of SektVO [German Regulation on the award of contracts in the field of transport, drinking water supply and energy].
The notice for this Call for Competition will be published via tender platform Mercell Source-to-Contract to the Official Journal of the European Union available at http://ted.europa.eu. The Call for Competition will be based on the negotiated procedure with prior publication, which means that initially an interested market party may apply as a Candidate. Details on general tender procedure can be found in the document "Procedure Guidelines".
As the ownership structure for the German part (TenneT Offshore GmbH) could change during the term of the agreement, the agreement must be easily transferable to any successor organization/-s.

Important: Please submit your questions, if any, exclusively via the Questions & Answers module.

Important: The documents to be provided by you need to be submitted via the questionnaire only. Please do not submit documents by other means- for example via email - this may lead to exclusion from the tender. 

Important: right for direct award of contracts
TenneT reserves the right to award the contract to the initial tenderers / bids (offers submitted in the offer phase) on the basis of the published evaluation procedure without negotiations and BAFO (§15 (4) SektVO). 


Methodology of the Offer/BAFO-evaluation
The tenders/bids will be evaluated and on the basis of the award criteria and weighting provided under section 5.1.9. of the EU announcement (see also the weightings of the questionnaire headers in the offer phase). 

For each criterion - except for the evaluation criterion "price", which has to be dealt with separately - a comparative evaluation is carried out and the bidders are ranked according to their performance within this criterion. The ordinal ranking is then multiplied by the weighting of the respective criterion. The weighted rankings of all criteria are added together. The bidder with the best overall ranking is considered to be the most economically advantageous bidder (the best performance receives the lowest value and, conversely, the lowest performance receives the highest value, depending on the number of bidders) and is thus placed in first place.
Introduction
In this introduction the tenderer will find, among other things, information about TenneT TSO B.V. and TenneT Offshore GmbH, hereinafter referred to as TenneT, the special sector company, the procedure and the contract. The TenneT Group provides a Legal Overview below.

The tender will take place exclusively digitally via the Mercell S2C platform. All information about this tender is available to Tenderers within this platform.
Further explanations on digital tendering can be found here.

The contracting authority is TenneT
TenneT is a leading European Transmission System Operator (TSO) with its main activities in the Netherlands and Germany. With more than 25,000 kilometres of high-voltage lines, we ensure a reliable and secure supply of electricity to 43 million end-users. With approximately 7,400 employees, we realise a turnover of EUR 4.1 billion for the first half of 2024 and a total asset value of EUR 46 billion. TenneT is one of the largest investors in national and international electricity grids on land and at sea. Our focus is on developing an integrated Northwest European energy market and facilitating the energy transition. TenneT is committed to meeting society's needs by being responsible, engaged and connected. Taking power further.
More information about TenneT can be found here.

Tender Procedure
TenneT is a "contracting entity" subject to the Dutch Public Procurement Act 2012 and respectively § 15 (1) of SektVO [German Regulation on the award of contracts in the field of transport, drinking water supply and energy].
The notice for this Call for Competition will be published via tender platform Mercell Source-to-Contract to the Official Journal of the European Union available at http://ted.europa.eu. The Call for Competition will be based on the negotiated procedure with prior publication, which means that initially an interested market party may apply as a Candidate. Details on general tender procedure can be found in the document "Procedure Guidelines".
As the ownership structure for the German part (TenneT Offshore GmbH) could change during the term of the agreement, the agreement must be easily transferable to any successor organization/-s.

Please note: TenneT reserves the right to directly award the contract to the initial tenderers on the basis of the published evaluation procedure without negotiations (§ 15 (4) SektVO). In that respect initial offers need to be binding. 

Award Criteria
"Contract and price" / weighting: 20%
"Team and references" / weighting: 10 %
"Placement strategy incl. potential savings, feasibility and proof of concept" / weighting: 40 %
"Broker scope and work and services" / weighting: 30 %

In order to protect the confidentiality of the information provided by the client in the tender documents, it is mandatory to conclude a confidentiality Agreement as per "NDA" document provided for download via Mercell. Please send the signed and stamped copy to: holger.duba@tennet.eu

After sending the NDA and a plausibility check by the Client, the Client will grant the interested parties access to the tender by Email.
After registering for the tender at Mercell Source-to-Contract, you will find all tender documents in the call for competition phase under "Questionnaires", section "Call for Competition", question 1.1. 
The bidder can not deduce eligibility for participation only from signing and submitting the NDA. TenneT will only accept tenderers who successfully qualify during the call for competition phase to participate in the offer phase. 

The application for the call for competition must be submitted in due time and no later than by
                                 24.09.2024 at 12:00 CEST
via the e-Award platform Mercell Source-to-Contract. Individual extensions of time will not be granted. Please start your upload process early enough.

Submission of the request to participate (applications) by Email, mail or fax are not permitted. A violation of this requirement will lead to disqualification of the applicant and exclusion from the tender process.

Please make sure to familiarize yourself with the Schedule, Questionnaires, Messages section and the Q&A section early enough and thoroughly read through all relevant documents. 

In case of technical difficulties, please reach out to Mercell:
Servicedesk Mercell: support-nl@mercell.com
Phone: +31 (0) 85-001 4593
Opening hours: 9:00-17:00 CET/CEST
In particular and in order to guarantee a proper claims settlement, a minimum annual turnover for insurer of at least EUR 50m must be existent for the past two financial years.

The turnover must originate from services that are comparable to the services to be provided, e.g. broking activities.

In the case of a bidder consortium the aforementioned sales are based on the cumulative turnover of the consortium partners. For each individual bidder or consortium partner, the total turnover of the group is deemed to be 100% owned by the group parent company.

The applicant confirms its acceptance of these provisions. Furthermore the applicant agrees that TenneT's broker is allowed to check/verify applicant's confirmation. As soon as the documentary evidence is requested, the applicant must send the documentary evidence by E-Mail within five days.
Is the applicant or bidding consortium making use of the capacities of another economic operator (3rd party) in order to meet the economic and financial minimum criteria according to section III.1.9?

In the following, please provide evidence of your suitability borrowing:

The 3rd party will be jointly and severally liable with the applicant in the event of a contract award in accordance with the scope of the suitability borrowing (form A3a). The 3rd party must fulfil the corresponding minimum criteria of this section III.1.9.

In addition, the 3rd party must provide the extract from the commercial register and the form or a self-declaration on grounds for exclusion pursuant to Sections 123, 124 GWB (form A7). The forms provided in Mercell for the suitability borrowing as well as the corresponding forms for the fulfilment of the further minimum criteria have to be used.