Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2022-04-11
Buyer: TenneT TSO B.V.
Country: NL
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71350000 | 71351000 | 71351100 | 71351700 | 71351710
Estimated value: 1500000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2022-05-06
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: This is a tender for a further agreement under a framework agreement for geophysical and geotechnical surveys for routes and platforms, as currently being tenderer for under the tender procedure with Negometrix number 192695. In order to be considered for this further agreement, Tenderer shall be awarded a framework agreement as a result of the tender procedure with Negometrix number 192695.
TenneT TSO B.V.  is appointed by the Dutch government as the offshore grid operator. In this role, TenneT has developed, and will continue to develop, an extensive project portfolio. TenneT is  responsible for engineering, procurement, installation, construction and operation of the connections between the offshore wind farms (through a converter platform) to the onshore network. The various connections that will be developed require survey works.
The purpose of this tender is to conclude a further agreement for geotechnical surveys for platforms for DC Projects 4 and 5.
Suitability requirements (generic and for work package 1) as defined in the tender procedure with Negometrix reference number 192695
Please refer to the tender documents at Negometrix, including the tender documents of the tender procedure with Negometrix reference number 192695
The contract for execution of the services will be based on FIDIC Client/Consultant Model Services Agreement 2006 (FIDIC White Book), with Particular Conditions
Tenderers will be informed of the award decision or any other decisions regarding this tender procedure - such as exclusion of a tenderer, disregard of a tender, or cancellation of the tender procedure - at the earliest possible opportunity.
If tenderers object to this award decision, they must make their objections known within 20 calendar days of the postmarked date of this award decision by serving on TenneT an application for interim measures before the competent preliminary injunctions court. If after these 20 calendar days tenderers initiate legal proceedings in connection with the decision to award the contract, TenneT will adopt the position that they have inadmissible
Tenderers that institute summary legal proceedings are requested to send the TenneT contact person a copy of the draft summons via the messaging module on the Negometrix platform. TenneT has the right to provide a
Provided that summary legal proceedings are instituted in the prescribed way, TenneT will await the outcome of the proceedings before definitively awarding the contract.
TenneT reserves the right to await the outcome of an appeal before possibly awarding the contract definitively.
If TenneT has notified the tenderer awarded the contract of the instituted summary legal proceedings, the tenderer concerned will be required to intervene in the legal proceedings, on penalty of forfeiture of the right to take further action against any amended decision to award the contract. If a tenderer wishes to institute proceedings in a dispute that is not related to selection for the purpose of the
negotiations, the award, or a retender, it must do so no later than 90 calendar days after the dispute arises, but in any event no more than 90 calendar days after the date on which the contract is awarded, unless the dispute is the result of a circumstance which only came to light after expiry of that period and of which the tenderer could not reasonably have been expected to be aware sooner. In the latter case, the period of 90 calendar days will start on the day on which the circumstance in question came to light or on which the tenderer could reasonably have been expected to be aware of the circumstance. The period of 90 calendar days must therefore be regarded as a time limit in this case also.
By submitting a tender the tenderer automatically accepts this tender procedure as well as the tender dossier including the contractual framework, the minimum requirements and the evaluation, scoring and contract awarding methods.

Eligibility requirements: Suitability requirements (generic and for work package 1) as defined in the tender procedure with Negometrix reference number 192695

Award value: 1500000