Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-12-14
Buyer: Energinet Elsystemansvar A/S
Country: DK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 71248000 | 71323100 | 71356200 | 71356300 | 73300000
Estimated value: 238900 EUR
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The contracting authority wants to purchase offshore market engagement support services to engage with commercial and regulatory experts from the leading offshore wind farm (OWF) developers highlighting key regulatory and commercial issues from an offshore wind stakeholder perspective, for the period of December 2020-April 2021.
TenneT Netherlands, TenneT Germany, Energinet and Gasunie joined forces — in the North Sea Wind Power Hub (NSWPH) consortium — to develop a large scale European electricity system for offshore wind. A new approach to offshore wind connection and grid integration is required, both from a techno-economical as well as from a market and regulatory perspective. This is due to the scale of the offshore wind roll-out required to meet the Paris Agreement climate targets (~150-450 GW), the short time window for realisation (30 years) and the unfolding energy transition as a whole (form fossil to net zero emission).
Based on the scope of works the consortium intends to procure support to develop more insight on background content for, and coordination of, ‘Offshore Wind Market Engagement’. This includes a structured process and moderation of interactive sessions with members of the consortium and leading offshore wind developers. This should build on the previous industry report and could result in a report to be presented to national governments during the WindEurope Electric City 2021 event in Copenhagen.
• in close collaboration with the market and regulation work stream lead, refine and structure the plan of approach for the offshore market engagement;
(ii) a final offshore wind market report based on input and collaboration with offshore wind developers.
The procurement will most likely be related to a project and/or pro-gram financed by European Union funds. On 1 October 2020 the EU member states agreed on a Commission proposal to invest 14 million in the NSWPH CEF Action program. The award of CEF funding is conditional to final approval by the European Parliament, expected in the coming weeks.
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’.
— 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: KPMG P/S
Award value: 238900