Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2022-04-27
Buyer: Energinet Eltransmission A/S
Country: DK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 71300000 | 71314000: Energy and related services | 71332000
Estimated value: 1000000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2022-05-12
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Following a decision in the Danish Parliament June 2020 Denmark is on the path to establish off-shore energy infrastructure in the Danish North Sea and in the Danish Baltic Sea to connect offshore wind energy to the Danish mainland and to neighbouring countries via offshore energy hubs, called Energy islands.
The current tender concern consultancy services regarding external threat and risk assessment as well as assessment of sufficient cable burial depths for the two Energy Islands’ expected subsea cable routes.
1.	WORK PACKAGE A (WPA) – Preliminary threat and risk assessment: The Con-sultant provides an analysis of threats and an assessment of the related risks in relation to the integrity of the subsea cable’s life-time operation. Furthermore, the Consultant provides a preliminary assessment of sufficient burial depths taking into account the de-scribed threats and their impact along the cable route.
2.	WORK PACKAGE B (WPB) – Revised threat and risk assessment: Consultant to update the above risk assessment with actual geophysical and geotechnical data collect-ed along the cable route. The assessment to include a final assessment of sufficient buri-al depths along the route taking a risk based approach.
3.	WORK PACKAGE C (WPC) – OPTION - Assessment of cable installation methods (BAS):  Consultant to assist with the production of a Burial Assessment Study to be used as a baseline against the Contractor delivered BAS.
4.	WORK PACKAGE D (WPD) - OPTION – Client’s engineer, cable tender phase. Consultant to provide engineering consultancy during procurement of the cable installa-tion Contractor.
5.	WORK PACKAGE E (WPE) – OPTION - Client’s engineer, cable installation phase. Consultant to provide engineering consultancy during the cable installation phase.
The Contracting Authority intends to prequalify 4 candidates (in total for both lots). If more than 4 applicants fulfills the minimum requirements, cf. section III, the Contracting Authority will prequalify the 4 applicants who are evaluated as most qualified for the specific tendered assignment. Only these applicants will be invited to submit a tender. The selection of the applicants will be based on the submitted references. That is to which extend the reference(s) are assed to be similar to the tendered assignment, cf. section II.2.4, in terms of comparability and relevance. Accordingly, the number of references will not be the determining factor alone, but more importantly to which degree the specific forwarded references are comparable and relevant to the tendered assignment regarding solution and scope.
Reference cases regarding cable burial and protection desk studies concerning North Sea or the Baltic Sea will in particular be rated positively.
Please refer to II.2.4 and to the Scope of Works documents. The options have not been taken into consideration in the contract duration indication in II.2.7.
Please note that this is a negotiated procedure. With the exception of mandatory parts, the Tender Documents may as a result undergo changes as part of the negotia-tion process.
1.	WORK PACKAGE A (WPA) – Preliminary threat and risk assessment: The Consultant provides an analysis of threats and an assessment of the related risks in relation to the integrity of the subsea cable’s life-time operation. Furthermore, the Consultant provides a preliminary assessment of sufficient burial depths taking into account the described threats and their impact along the cable route.
2.	WORK PACKAGE B (WPB) – Revised threat and risk assessment: Consultant to update the above risk assessment with actual geophysical and geotechnical data collected along the cable route. The assessment to include a final assessment of sufficient burial depths along the route taking a risk based approach.
3.	WORK PACKAGE C (WPC) – OPTION - Assessment of cable installation methods (BAS):  Consultant to assist with the production of a Burial Assessment Study to be used as a baseline against the Contractor delivered BAS.
4.	WORK PACKAGE D (WPD) - OPTION – Client’s engineer, cable tender phase. Consultant to provide engineering consultancy during procurement of the cable installation Contractor.


Award value: 1000000