Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2025-09-29
Buyer: TenneT Offshore GmbH
Country: DE
Region: DE242
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated with prior call for competition
CPV classification: 50800000 | 65300000: Electricity distribution and related services
Estimated value: 1 EUR
Submission deadline: 2025-10-27
Award criteria: price, quality

Technical requirements: Sections 123 and 124 of the Act against Restraints of Competition (GWB)
The client has had a universal seawater repair joint (SMART Joint) developed and built. In order to be able to use this for repairs in the event of a cable fault in an AC submarine cable, the client still needs qualified persons who can install it.
For this purpose, a company with experience in this field is sought that can provide service personnel with appropriate jointing skills at defined response times at the request of the client.
The contractor's jointing personnel will be trained in a two-week course to install the SMART Joint in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions in the event of a cable fault. For this reason, the participants in the tender are expected to have the appropriate knowledge and skills.

AC cable systems
— rated voltages up to 155 kV,
— up to 80 km length

Further detailed information on the services to be provided can be found in the specifications. 

A non-disclosure agreement is to be concluded to protect the confidentiality of information provided by the client in the tender documents. For this purpose, please use the document "Annex 09 - NDA - SLA - SMART Joint Services" (Non Disclosure Agreement) provided for download and send the signed copy to the following e-mail address: carsten.heinrich@tennet.eu 

Applicants are permitted to send signed NDAs to the client at any time during the application process. Following a plausibility check, the contracting authority will grant the applicant access to the tender documents by sending the applicant an invitation email generated from Mercell for the aforementioned tender. The applicant also requires access to the tendering platform https://s2c.mercell.com, which is available via free registration on the platform.  The applicant cannot yet infer from the invitation to participate in the competition that the contracting authority certifies the applicant's suitability for further participation in the tender procedure. In this respect, the contracting authority will send separate invitations to tender to the bidders authorised for the tender procedure after the deadline for submitting requests to participate has expired. 

The request to participate must be submitted in good time and at the latest by the participation request deadline of:

                                              27. Okt. 2025 (Mo.), 12:00 GMT+01:00
            
must be received via the Mercell e-tendering platform. Individual deadline extensions will not be granted. 

Notes on the submission of requests to participate:
- Submission of the request to participate by post, e-mail or fax is not permitted. Failure to comply with this requirement may result in the exclusion of the request to participate.
- Information or documents that are not in German or English must be accompanied by a qualified translation of the originals.
- The awarding authority considers signatures for the call for tenders in digital form (e-signature or scan) and without a stamp or in text form in accordance with § 126 b BGB (German Civil Code) to be sufficient.
- Please note all documents and information provided on Mercell as well as all information in the Procedure Guidelines.
Current extract from the commercial register or, in the case of foreign companies, comparable information (not older than 3 months from the date of submission of the application to participate). In the case of a consortium of applicants, each member must submit the relevant extract from the commercial register.
Proof of economic and financial performance must be provided by submitting the annual reports for the last 3 years. In particular, proof must be provided that the annual turnover was at least EUR 2,000,000.00 in each case.  In the case of a consortium, the aforementioned turnover refers to the cumulative turnover of the consortium partners, whereby the total turnover of the group applies to each individual bidder or consortium partner in the case of group integration, provided that the bidder or consortium partner is wholly owned by the group parent company.
Insurance
Proof of a standard commercial general liability insurance policy with the following minimum cover:

- to cover all possible third-party claims arising from legal and, as far as possible, contractual liability, with a minimum coverage of EUR 3,000,000.00 per claim, two times in the annual aggregate, for personal injury, property damage, and (consequential) financial loss.
- Professional liability insurance with sufficient coverage, however, at least EUR 1,500,000.00
- Environmental liability/damage insurance with a minimum coverage of EUR 3,000,000.00 per claim

Eligibility requirements: Current extract from the commercial register or, in the case of foreign companies, comparable information (not older than 3 months from the date of submission of the application to participate). In the case of a consortium of applicants, each member must submit the relevant extract from the commercial register.
Proof of economic and financial performance must be provided by submitting the annual reports for the last 3 years. In particular, proof must be provided that the annual turnover was at least EUR 2,000,000.00 in each case.  In the case of a consortium, the aforementioned turnover refers to the cumulative turnover of the consortium partners, whereby the total turnover of the group applies to each individual bidder or consortium partner in the case of group integration, provided that the bidder or consortium partner is wholly owned by the group parent company.
Insurance
Proof of a standard commercial general liability insurance policy with the following minimum cover:

- to cover all possible third-party claims arising from legal and, as far as possible, contractual liability, with a minimum coverage of EUR 3,000,000.00 per claim, two times in the annual aggregate, for personal injury, property damage, and (consequential) financial loss.
- Professional liability insurance with sufficient coverage, however, at least EUR 1,500,000.00
- Environmental liability/damage insurance with a minimum coverage of EUR 3,000,000.00 per claim
References
Proof of experience in the field of the services to be awarded must be provided by
the indication of at least 3 suitable reference orders within the last 3 years (2022 - today), which are comparable to the service to be awarded in terms of type and difficulty.
Please indicate the number of your permanent employed jointers. Definition: A permanent employed jointer has a permanent employment contract and has already completed any preliminary probationary period. The minimum number of permanent employees required to participate in this tender is 10.
Availability of an on-call service. Proof of an existing on-call service, including flow chart and alert plan.
Proof of qualification for splicing fibre optic cables.
As stated in section 3.4 of the procedural guidelines, the contracting authority (TenneT Offshore GmbH ("TenneT")) may, in accordance with the principles of transparency and equal treatment, require applicants to submit, complete or correct missing, incomplete or incorrect business-related documents, in particular self-declarations, declarations, certificates or other evidence (Section 51(2) SektVO).
At TenneT's request, the relevant documents must be submitted by the applicants within a (reasonable) period set by TenneT. The decision to request further information is at TenneT's sole discretion.
Applications for participation that do not contain the required documents will be excluded from the tendering procedure.
Signing a confidentiality agreement is a prerequisite for obtaining access to the tender documents (in accordance with Section 9(3) sentence 1 of the SektVO).
See tender documentation