Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2018-03-13
Buyer: Dong Energy A/S
Country: DK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 09000000
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: DONG Energy is looking for Certification Bodies (CBs) who can evaluate whether the assessment of the site conditions has been adequately undertaken and documented. They shall verify that the Design Basis is sufficient and adequately documented, to ensure a safe design. The CB shall evaluate that the site-specific loads and load effects are derived in conformity with the design basis, including an independent load analysis. The CB shall verify that the design of the support structures including their bolted connection complies with the applicable codes and standards, the design basis and the results of the ILA. They shall verify the interfaces between the Type Certificate, the ILA and the Support Structure Design Evaluation.
All assessments shall be evaluated in compliance with the IEC 61400-22 Wind turbines — Part 22: Conformity testing and certification. Evaluation reports and accredited IEC Conformity Statements must be issued for each of the described modules.
2. Please document demonstrable experience in the relevant field: Concluded IEC 61400-22 or BSH project certification for at least the modules “Site Conditions Evaluation”, “Design Basis Evaluation”, “Integrated Load Analysis”, “Design Evaluation” (for Turbine Foundations) for a monopile design. Please submit documentation for the below bullets:
— Project Certification Services concluded for the above mentioned fields / modules including foundation type and where the above Certification Services have taken place (EEZ).
— Process description and ideally documented success in integrating certified loads provided by another certification body provided via the turbine supplier.
The more extensive and more relevant provision of services (references) are similar to the services comprised by the tendered contracts, the higher the score the candidate will receive.
The Contracting Entity hereby informs you that applications for exemption from the utilities directive for Generation of Electricity in the Netherlands, cf. article 34 of the utilities directive, is pending at the European Commission. The activities and the geographic area covered by the applications are relevant for the Scope of Works covered by this tender procedure.
It is expected that a decision from the European Commission will be published during the tender procedure. If the European Commission decides to exempt electricity generation in the Netherlands from the utilities directive, the Contracting Entity reserves the right to cancel this tender procedure and source the Scope of Works in a procedure not being subject to the utilities directive.
In this event, the Contracting Entity will not bear any costs for your or any third party acting under instructions from you, related to this tender procedure.
Complains about not having been pre-qualified must be filled with the Complainants Board for Public Procurement (Klagenævnet for Udbud) within 20 (twenty) calendar days from the day after the day when the Contracting Entity has notified the applicants in question about the result of the pre-qualification, provided that the notification contains a short statement of relevant reasoning behind the decision. The complainant must notify the Contracting Entity in writing of the filing at the latest when complaint is filled.


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