Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2025-09-19
Buyer: Orsted Onshore Ireland Midco Limited
Country: IE
Region: IE052
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated with prior call for competition
CPV classification: 71311000: Civil engineering consultancy services | 71311100 | 71314300: Energy-efficiency consultancy services | 71317200 | 71317210
Estimated value: 20500000 EUR
Award criteria: price, quality

Technical requirements: The Contracting Entity is seeking to award Framework Agreements for each of the four (4) Lots set out below, under which the Contracting Entity may make call-offs for the provision of certain onshore energy consultancy services (as set out below). The Framework Agreements will be entered into by Orsted Onshore Ireland Midco Limited; however, Applicants are advised that call-offs for consultancy services may be made by any Contracting Entity as elaborated on below. Applicants may submit an Application for one or more Lots.   
Lot B: Provision of planning consultancy services for onshore wind projects in the Republic of Ireland 
Lot C: Provision of ecology consultancy services for onshore wind projects in the Republic of Ireland  
Lot D: Provision of planning and ecology consultancy services for solar projects in the Republic of Ireland  
Lot E: Provision of planning and ecology consultancy services for battery energy storage system projects in the Republic of Ireland .
Please note, that this is a re-issue of notice 341613-2024, as the Contracting Entity has found a need to award a framework agreement for Lot B-E to further suppliers than specified in the previous notice.
Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents.
Information about review deadlines: In accordance with the provisions of the EC (Award of Contracts by Utility Undertakings) (Review Procedures) Regulations 2010 (S.I. No. 131/2010), and the review procedures set out therein.
The Framework Agreements will be entered into by Orsted Onshore Ireland Midco Limited (“Midco”), which is a public undertaking. However, Applicants are advised that call-offs under a Framework Agreement may be made by any Contracting Entity including (a) all the companies listed in this notices, (b) all legal entities that are directly or indirectly controlled by Orsted Onshore Ireland Midco Limited and that are incorporated in the Republic of Ireland, (c) contractual joint venture entities incorporated in the Republic of Ireland in which Orsted Onshore Ireland Midco Limited holds at least 50% ownership and/or at least 50% control of the entity (subject to the applicable contractual structure) and (d) new legal entities as further described in paragraph 2 below. 
Control shall be understood to exist in relation to a legal entity when another legal entity holds one or more of the following rights: 
- a majority of the voting rights at general meetings or an equivalent governance forum; 
- the right to control a majority of the voting rights by virtue of an agreement; 
- the right to direct the financial and operational management by virtue of articles of association or agreement; or 
- the right to appoint or remove the majority of the members of the management board, supervisory board or equivalent bodies. 
2. Midco and its subsidiaries establish new legal entities on an ongoing basis. Any new legal entity incorporated in the Republic of Ireland during the term of the Framework Agreements that is directly or indirectly controlled by Midco, or in which Midco directly or indirectly holds at least 50% ownership and/or control, may also make call-offs under the Framework Agreements, as long as the new legal entity’s activities are within the usual activities of Midco and its subsidiaries, which are developing, constructing and operating onshore wind, solar and battery energy storage system, projects in the Republic of Ireland and providing energy products to their customers.
This Lot B is for services relating to environmental impact assessment reports (EIAR) for wind farms and related grid routes and turbine delivery routes in the Republic of Ireland. The services required can include preparation, project management and submission of a fully compliant EIAR, planning application and supporting documents to the relevant consenting authority. The services can further include coordinating the development design and planning application, along with managing external consultants who contribute to various chapters within the EIAR. A variety of surveys are included in the scope of an EIAR tender such as noise, shadow flicker, landscape and visual, archaeology, hydrology etc. Grid services can also be required, with substation design and grid route assessments to be completed


Winner: No winner was chosen - Orsted has decided to discontinue the Tender Procedure at this time for strategic reasons.
Number of bids: 27