Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-01-27
Buyer: Vattenfall Europe Windkraft GmbH
Country: DE
Region: DANMARK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 71631000
Estimated value: 1000000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2017-02-24
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: This ‘WTG Quality Surveillance Services — Blades’ tender concerns the provision of qualified Quality Surveillance services on site at WTG blade manufacturing facilities including:
— Reviewing and monitoring Manufacturer's documentation, staff qualifications and competency, processes, quality control activities and the end product.
— Using Employer's tracking system to report any deficiencies with respect to compliance of documentation, process, qualifications of staff and/or the end product with the Contract and other relevant requirements.
Quality Control at the manufacturer is not required, but rather the manufacturer's own QA/QM/QC shall be inspected and assessed.
The manufacturing facilities will be located within Europe, mostly northern Europe. On occasion, travel further afield may also be required. In exceptional cases inspections may also take place at other points in the execution process of the WTG supplier, e.g. pre-assembly, installation, completion, commissioning.
There must be minimum 10 quality inspectors directly and permanently employed (on your own payroll).by your organisation in North/West/South Europe and/ or Poland.
— sufficient theoretical and practical knowledge including relevant formal qualification(s) such as an engineering degree and/or trade qualification(s);
— at least 5 years' experience within the wind industry related to rotor blades including, non-destructive testing, design, and production and;
— at least 3 years' of work experience in on-site failure analysis and quality control of rotor blades;
As an option, the Contractor is asked to include offshore inspection rates. The offshore inspection team would need to be trained, qualified and equipped with the required PPE for performing offshore works. Training, qualification and equipment would be at the expense of the Contractor.
This procedure will be carried out using an electronic application, Commerce-Hub. Vattenfall will only make available the relevant documents through this website. Candidates need to submit all requested information by using this website. Use the following link to register for this tender procedure:
https://portal.commerce-hub.com/index.cfm?action=sourcing:__requestform.subscribe&document=23A8E10B-01B5-58DC-132AB094E98193BB
a) if the appellant has recognised the breach of tender rules prior to filing the appeal and did not claim this towards the contracting entity within 10 calendar days; the expiry of the deadline according to § 134 II remains unaffected (§ 160 III s. 1 no. 1 GWB);
b) as far as breaches of tender rules, recognisable based on the tender notice, has not been claimed towards the contracting entity at the latest by the expiry of the deadline for filing the bid or for the request for participating notified in the notice (§ 160 III s. 1 no. 2 GWB);
c) as far as breaches of tender rules which are recognisable only within the specifications / request for quotation have not been claimed towards the contracting entity at the latest by the expiry of the deadline notified in the tender notice / request for quotation for filing the bid or for filing the request for participating (§160 III s. 1 no. 3 GWB);