Public procurement notice: Qualification System Without Call For Competition
Published: 2017-11-11
Buyer: Ørsted Wind Power A/S
Country: DK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 45252125 | 60630000
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Ørsted Wind Power A/S intend to use Achilles Utilities Nordics and Central Europe (AUNCE) qualification system (named Sellihca in the TED notices below) for the EU tender for array cable installation for the wind parks Borssele 1-2 and Holland Coast South 1-2 in the Netherlands.
All references in the TED notice 2016/S 190-342837 (with amendments) and 2016/S 189-339945 (with amendments) to Sellihca should be read as AUNCE. The TED notices contain more information about the qualification system and registration. Achilles Systems AS has tendered on behalf of the utilities listed in the TED notices, including Ørsted Wind Power A/S (formerly DONG Energy Wind Power A/S). The CPV-codes for the tender is 60630000 cable-laying ship services and 45252125-0 Rock-dumping work. Please register in category 4.2.16 if you like to participate.
The publication in Tenderned.nl is voluntary and made to ensure transparency and interest from all relevant suppliers. Suppliers are encouraged to register in Achilles Utilities Nordics and Central Europe (AUNCE) qualification systems, if interested in supplying array cable installation and rock dumping for the wind parks Borssele 1-2 and Holland South Coast 1-2. Please register in AUNCE as soon as possible and before 15 calendar days as from the date of publication of this notice was sent to TenderNed at the latest to ensure your participation in the procedure. If not registered within this period you may not be able to participate in the tender procedure. The governing law of the tender procedure will be Danish law and complaints should be submitted to the Danish Complaints Board for Public Procurement or shall be decided by the City Court of Lyngby, Denmark, should the Danish Complaints Board for Public Procurement not have jurisdiction to hear the matter.
Please note that applications for exemption from the utilities directive for Generation of Electricity in the Netherlands, cf. article 34 of the utilities directive (2014/25/EU), is pending at the European Commission. It is expected that a decision from the European Commission will be published during the tender procedure. The contracting entity reserves the right to cancel the tender procedure and source the scope of works in a procedure not being subject to the utilities directive, including if the European Commission decides to exempt electricity generation in the Netherlands from 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.
Please note that the tender for Holland Coast South 1-2 may be cancelled, including if the Contracting Entity does not win the auction for the project. It is expected that the Dutch Authorities will award the contract for Holland Coast South 1-2 in Q1 2018.
The contracting entity may use the procedure in article 50, (f) utilities directive where after new services/construction works consisting in the repetition of similar services/construction works assigned to the contractor to which the contracting entity awarded an earlier contract, if such works conform to a basic project for which a first contract was awarded, can be awarded without a call for competition. Such procedures might be used up to three times for the scopes similar to the scope of services/construction works specified in the tender conditions. This right can be used by the contracting entity up to three years after the award of the first contract. The conditions for awarding possible additional works are the following: a)The performance will be subject to the same contractual terms as the original scope of services/construction works with necessary amendments following from the different timing and geographic location of the project; b) The contractor must comply with mandatory statutory law in the country where the individual offshore wind farms for which the contracting entity chooses to apply this right to repeat similar works are placed; c) Minor necessary adjustments of technical specifications due to site specific matters; d) Amendment of time schedule to reflect to project for which the repetition of similar services/construction works is applied. Repetition of similar works will also be described in the tender conditions.
Please note that a supplementary TED notice regarding use of the Achilles Utilities Nordics and Central Europe qualification system has been sent on 9 November 2017 in the name of Ørsted Wind Power A/S and other entities in the Ørsted Group regarding use of article 50(f) when using the qualification system. The wording is similar to the wording in this notice, but is broader as it is not limited to wind farms, but can be used for all activities that are sourced through the qualification system.
Complaints about not having been pre-qualified must be filed with the Complaints Board for Public Procurement (Klagenævnet for Udbud) within 20 (twenty) calendar days from the day after the day the Contracting Entity notified the applicants in question about the result of the pre-qualification, provided that the notification contains a short statement of relevant grounds for the decision. The complainant must notify the Contracting Entity in writing of the filing at the latest when complaint is filed.