Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-06-02
Buyer: Kvarken Link Ab
Country: SE
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 34510000
Submission deadline: 2018-07-02
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Kvarken Link Ab (hereinafter also referred to as “Customer”) expects your tenders for the building and delivery of a passenger /car ferry (hereinafter referred to as “Ferry” or “Vessel”) as detailed in this contract notice sent to be published on the public procurement website on 1.6.2018.
Kvarken Link Ab is jointly owned by the cities of Vaasa and municipality of Umeå. Kvarken Link Ab has established the limited liability company NLC Ferry Oy Ab with trade name Wasaline - a shipping company operating the ferry Wasa Express between Vaasa and Umeå.
Wasalines's operations started in the beginning of 2013 covering passenger and cargo, cruise and conference traffic. In addition to Kvarken Link Ab the cities of Vaasa and Umeå have joined forces in operating their harbors under the common company “Kvarken Ports Ltd”.
The narrows in the Gulf of Bothnia between Vaasa and municipality of Umeå is called the “Quark”. The route is of semi-arctic nature with the tendency of being blocked by ice ridges in winter.
The “Ferry” to be able to serve as the sole or /passenger link between the cities of Vaasa and Umeå. The conditions are semi-arctic. Strong formation of ice ridges is expected in wintertime with southerly winds. In level ice conditions the ferry needs to be able to break out from the ice channel.
In accordance with the negotiated procedure, the customer evaluates the candidates and selects the tenderers who will be invited to negotiate.
Qualified tenderers are invited to negotiate. The customer will invite at least 3 candidates to join a negotiated procedure unless there are fewer suitable candidates.
If there are too many qualified candidates, the customer will compare the requests to participate and select the tenderers based on the following criteria:
Since there is no absolute “best” values for these parameters, each factor will be compared to the others' corresponding values. Each parameter may gain 5 points maximum.
2) the respondent's references of ice classed passengers /car ferry construction during past 6 years (weighting 50 %), references shall be presented in Appendix,
3) energy-efficient and environment saving innovations carried out in previous projects (weighting 20 %):
a— references about construction processes with optimal Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) value consisting of the relation between the amount of carbon dioxide produced by the ship's engines and the amount of cargo it carries,
b— references about construction processes including clean energy research or technology, in particular energy-efficiency and advanced, cleaner fossil-fuel technology, if any,
c— references about investments or cooperation in energy infrastructure and clean-energy technology processes, if any, the respondents should demonstrate their references related, and explain how these references satisfy the demands of the paragraph.
Options are not necessarily included in to the final contract. The technical realization will be cleared upon upon negotiations.

Eligibility requirements: See request to participate.