Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-06-03
Buyer: AQUIND Ltd
Country: UK
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 31000000 | 31121110 | 31200000 | 31320000 | 31321300
Estimated value: 1300000000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2019-07-04
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: AQUIND Interconnector is a High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) electric power transmission link with the net capacity of 2 000 MW between Lovedean Substation in Hampshire, UK and Barnabos Switching Station in Seine-Maritime department of Normandy region, France. The scope of works may include, but not limited to; The design, engineering, manufacture, construction, installation, commissioning, operation and maintenance of the 2 converter stations at Lovedean UK and Barnabos, France; and two circuits (poles) of HVDC Marine and Underground Land Cable. Approx cable route length 238 km, including:
AQUIND Interconnector shall be configured as twin symmetrical monopoles, each with the net capacity of 1 000 MW. Each will include all necessary equipment, control systems, plant, machinery, buildings and other elements to convert electricity from AC to DC and vice versa.
The Contracting Entity reserves the right to award contracts for works, operation and maintenance services for the following lots:
— such other works, services and goods that might be necessary to successfully commission and put into operation the HVDC Converter Stations.
(a) 2 x HVDC Converter Stations (1 near — Lovedean Substation in Hampshire, UK and 1 near Barnabos Switching Station in Seine-Maritime department of Normandy, France).
(c) optional — provision of operational services (under a separate operational services agreement, including options to extend at the sole discretion of Aquind Ltd).
(d) optional — provision of maintenance services, including the continued replenishment of spares under a separate maintenance services agreement, including options to extend at the sole discretion of Aquind Ltd.
The operation and maintenance services agreement, which may be procured under this Lot 1, will be optional and any extension to that agreement will be at the sole discretion of Aquind Ltd.
Details will be described in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) and/or Invitation to Tender (ITT) documents. Aquind Ltd reserves the right to alter or amend the conditions described in the PQQ and/or the ITT Documents.
1) Operation and maintenance services, including any extension to the term of the operation and maintenance service agreement procurement under this Lot 1, will be optional at the sole discretion of Aquind Ltd.
AQUIND Interconnector has been granted the status of EU Project of Common Interest Reference 1.7.4, and may become eligible for European Union Funds.
The expected date for commissioning is December 2023. However the contract terms will run past this date as per details contained with the ITT documentation.
Aquind Ltd does not consider itself to be a contracting entity or utility within the meaning of the procurement legislation but is placing this OJEU Notice on a voluntary basis.
— such other works, services and goods, that might be necessary to successfully commission and put into operation the HVDC Cables and Fibre Optic Cables.
HVDC Cables and Fibre Optic Cables (up to 192 Fibres) — including the Marine and Land cable installation (including civils works, ducting, Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) works) UK and France; HVDC and Fibre Optic Spare Cables; and the optional provision of maintenance services, including the continued replenishment of spares under a separate maintenance services agreement, including options to extend at the sole discretion of AQUIND Ltd.

Eligibility requirements: Details will be described in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ). Aquind Ltd reserves the right to alter or amend the conditions described in the PQQ.

Award value: 1300000000