Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-06-29
Buyer: TenneT TSO BV
Country: NL
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 31210000
Submission deadline: 2017-07-12
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Candidate Tenderers must sign a Non-Disclosure (‘Confidentiality’) Agreement prior to accessing confidential tender information. The NDA's can be uploaded in the Negometrix tendernr. 64783.
Scope: Manufacturing and Delivery of High Voltage Protection Equipment, ancillary goods and services in TenneT's HV grid in The Netherlands and Germany:
2: Offer phase with as Call for tender (ITT, RFQ, Initial bid, Negotiation, Best and Final Offer with potential Verification by building a Proof of Concept and optional Factory audit(s), Awarding).
Combinations of all lots 1, 2, and 3 is possible. Note for each of the lots 2 and 3 there will be 2 parties.
Next to single offers per lot, tenderers can also quote a combined offering for combinations of lots in a dedicated letter to the Offer(s). In case then the awarding of the combined lots is more economic advantageous than awarding of the single offers per lot, TenneT reserves the right to award contracts to parties of the most economic advantageous combination of offers.
The Manufacturing and Delivery of High Voltage Substation Automation Equipment, ancillary goods and services in TenneT's Extra High Voltage grid.
The Manufacturing and Delivery of High Voltage Busbar Protection Equipment, ancillary goods and services in TenneT's Extra High Voltage grid.
The Manufacturing and Delivery of High Voltage Bay Protection Equipment, ancillary goods and services in TenneT's Extra High Voltage grid.
Signing of a Non-Disclosure Agreement (in Negometrix tender No 64783) prior to accessing the selection phase of tender 56679.
If the intention is to award the contract to a consortium, the consortium members must (jointly) formalize their legal status as soon as possible after provisional awarding. Formalization of the consortium is a precondition for definitive awarding of the contract.
Agreements may be used by Authorized companies of TenneT TSO GmbH, TenneT TSO B.V., as well as their legally affiliated companies, amongst which are Reddyn, TeslaN, TensZ.
Candidates will be informed at the earliest possible opportunity about the selection decision or eventually other decisions concerning the selection procedure like exclusion of candidate or revoke of the call for tenders procedure.
If candidates object to this (selection) decision, they must make their objections known to TenneT within 10 days of the postmarked date of the (selection) decision by serving an application for interim measures before the competent preliminary injunctions court at Arnhem. If candidates initiate legal proceedings in connection with the(selection) decision after these 10 days, TenneT will adopt the position that those candidates have inadmissible claims. The period of 10 days must therefore be regarded as a time limit.
Candidates that institute summary legal proceedings are requested to send a copy of the draft summons via the message module on the Negometrix platform and to ask TenneT to provide the unavailability dates of TenneT and its legal counsel in advance. TenneT has the right to provide a copy of the served summons to stakeholders.
Any institution of summary legal proceedings will not oblige TenneT to suspend the call for tenders procedure and TenneT will have the right to continue the call for tenders procedure with the parties it selected.

Eligibility requirements: Registration in a register of companies or professional register. ESPD Electronic Single Procurement Document. Further information and details available in Negometrix.