Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-02-20
Buyer: Energinet Eltransmission A/S
Country: DK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 71332000 | 71351220 | 76320000 | 76521000 | 76522000
Estimated value: 5423617 EUR
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Preliminary geotechnical investigations for Thor Offshore Wind Farm including offshore boreholes and CPTs.
The assignment includes preliminary geotechnical site investigations for the Thor offshore wind farm project located in the Danish North Sea west of the peninsula Jutland and ca. 20 km to 45 km west of the coastal village Thorsminde. The water depth in the areas of operation is expected to be 25 m to 35 m.
The purpose of the assignment is to acquire geotechnical and geological information about the subsurface to be used as basis for developers to assess the soil risk for the Thor project, perform a preliminary evaluation of installation and foundation conditions and as basis for submitting a bid for the wind farm project.
The scope includes geotechnical boreholes and CPT tests. Laboratory tests shall be performed on extracted samples. Geotechnical boreholes shall be performed up to 70 meters below seabed. The CPT tests shall be performed as independent seabed CPT’s and as CPT’s associated.
Please note that this is a negotiated procedure. With the exception of mandatory parts, the tender documents may as a result undergo changes as part of the negotiation process.
The applicant must submit a completed ESPD to apply for pre-qualification for this tender procedure. The ESPD for this tender can be found via EU-supply. The ESPD must be completed in EU-Supply and submitted via ‘My Response’.
— an applicant participating on its own, but relying on the capacities of one or more other entities (e.g. a parent or sister company or a subcontractor), must ensure that the application includes the applicants own ESPD together with a separate ESPD from each of the entities it relies on with a completed part II: ‘Information concerning the economic operator’ and part III: ‘Exclusion grounds’ of the ESPD as well as the relevant information regarding part IV: ‘Selection criteria’ and part V: ‘Reduction of the number of qualified candidates’. The ESPD from each of the entities should be duly filled and signed by the entities concerned.
Further where an applicant wants to rely on the capacities of other entities, it shall prove to the contracting authority that it will have at its disposal the resources necessary, for example, by producing a commitment by those entities to that effect, which must be submitted as part of the final documentation.
— where groups of economic operators, including temporary associations, participate together in the procurement procedure, a complete separate ESPD for each of the participating economic operators must be submitted.
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1) 45 calendar days after the contracting authority has published a contract award notice in the Official Journal of the European Union (with effect from the day following the publication date);
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3) 6 months starting the day after the contracting authority has sent notification to the candidates/tenderers involved that the contracting authority has entered into the framework agreement, provided that the notification included a short account of the relevant reasons for the decision.


Winner: Geo
Award value: 5423617