Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-12-23
Buyer: Fluxys Belgium S.A.
Country: BE
Region: BELGIQUE-BELGIË
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 60424100 | 60440000: Aerial work | 71700000 | 79961200
Submission deadline: 2017-01-29
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Fluxys wants to patrol on a regular basis his network in order to detect and follow up works in the vicinity of his high pressure natural gas network. Therefore, Fluxys wants to award a framework contract to a single operator. The scope of the contract will be the monitoring of a part of the Fluxys-network on a regular basis. The frequency of monitoring depends on the type of the pipeline and can vary during the contract. The deliverable of the contract is a qualitative structured reporting of all potential, active and finished works or dangerous situations in the vicinity of the monitored pipelines.
In case of grouping of companies, such as a temporary consortium or a joint venture, a ‘leader’ should be
designated and the different members of this grouping agree to be held jointly and severally liable towards
— Any information given shall be completed and/or substantiated when requested by Contracting Entity. At its sole discretion, Contracting Entity may decide that applicants may update their application file in any phase of this selection and award procedure.
— After submission of its file, the applicant should immediately notify Contracting Entity of any subsequent changes which might affect the information provided, and this during the whole award procedure.
— Contracting Entity hereby informs applicants that the selection phase may take longer than 6 months.
— If Fluxys finds that the candidate provides false or fraudulous information or provides deliberately insufficient of inaccurate information, the concerned candidate will be excluded immediately.
— Applicants have to send one paper printed and one USB/version of their application file by 12:00 of the date as specified in ‘Time-limit for receipt of expressions of interest’. Except if a new date is announced by a Corrigendum on SIMAP, files received after this date and files without USB-version are automatically excluded.
— Applicant may be excluded if the application file does not contain all requested information in exactly the same order as listed in Section III.2 ‘Conditions for participation’.
A clear and univocal ‘cross reference table’ linking applicant's standard information with the listing in point III.2) would be the only acceptable alternative.
— Applicant shall clearly mention the company's full name, including RPR number, VAT number, full address, legal form and leader of the consortium (if applicable).
— In case of a consortium at least a ‘letter of consent’ between consortium members shall be presented and all members of the consortium have to provide the required information. If not all information is provided for each of the proposed consortium partners, the applicant file of the consortium is immediately excluded as a whole and will not be transformed in a stand alone qualification file of one (or more) of the consortium partner(s).
— having similar services as specified in the Scope of Services as their main activity (or at least a major part of it);
— that they have staff who are proficient in Dutch, French or English in order to understand technico-commercial enquiries and/or contract negotiations;
a) are not in a situation of bankruptcy, liquidation, ceasing business, composition or preventive composition or a similar situation which exists in their national laws and rules,