Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2021-09-06
Buyer: RESEAU DE TRANSPORT d’ELECTRICITE (RTE)
Country: FR
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 71700000
Submission deadline: 2021-10-01
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Monitoring services of vessel traffic/activities for subsea power cable protection in the vicinity of RTE’s offshore assets
Provision of monitoring services of vessel traffic/activities for subsea power cable protection in the vicinity of offshore wind farm export cables and interconnectors (optional) in the English Channel, in the Atlantic and in the Mediterranean Sea.
The related contract is expected to cover a period of several years and a growing number of assets over the years.
The assets to be monitored are located in the English Channel, in the Atlantic ocean and in the Mediterranean sea.
-	Procurement/acquisition of relevant AIS (Automatic Identification System) data, additional other data sources may also be considered;
-	Setup of a relevant monitoring system able to consider protection zones and protection rules around the assets based on the above data feed;
-	Continuous 24/7 monitoring with autonomous management of alerts/alarms and communication with 3rd parties, including in case of critical events with available or on-call duty personnel;
The proposed monitoring system shall not require any dedicated hardware installation. If hardware are still deemed required by the Contractor, this shall be fully managed, installed, maintained, decommissioned by the Contractor outside of any RTE premises and this shall be fully transparent to RTE.
III.1.1) Suitability to pursue the professional activity, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers,
Options of monitoring services for interconnectors will be described in the invitation to tender package.
RTE reserves the right to award directly the contract to most competitive bid without negotiation process.
# For candidates established in France: a less than three (3) months old registration extract from the trade register (extrait K bis);
# For candidates established outside France: a less than three (3) months old document from an official authority certifying the registration of the Candidate on a professional Register.
- A dated and signed statement under oath certifying that the Candidate is not in one of the case prohibiting it to tender as stated in articles L. 2141-1 à L. 2141-5 of Order NO. 2018-1074 of 26 November 2018 related to the public market, and especially, candidate shall be in order with requirements of articles L. 5122-1 to L.5212-11 of the French Civil Code related to employment of disabled workers ;
In order to be considered, the candidate shall provide the following information and the supporting documents in French or in English :

Eligibility requirements: Documentation and certification required have to be provided in French or in English. In order to be considered, the candidate shall submit the following administrative documents : # For candidates established in France: a less than three (3) months old registration extract from the trade register (extrait K bis); # For candidates established outside France: a less than three (3) months old document from an official authority certifying the registration of the Candidate on a professional Register. For all candidates: - A dated and signed statement under oath certifying that the Candidate is not in one of the case prohibiting it to tender as stated in articles L. 2141-1 à L. 2141-5 of Order NO. 2018-1074 of 26 November 2018 related to the public market, and especially, candidate shall be in order with requirements of articles L. 5122-1 to L.5212-11 of the French Civil Code related to employment of disabled workers ; - If the candidate is subject to insolvency procedures, all court orders and notifications.