Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2022-02-09
Buyer: Energistyrelsen
Country: DK
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 31121310 | 31121320 | 31121330 | 31121340 | 31160000
Estimated value: 17700000000 DKK
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: The tender concerned a concession for the Thor Offshore Wind Farm, which will be located in the North Sea west of Thorsminde by Nissum Fjord at a distance of minimum 20 km from the shore and with a capacity of min. 800 MW and max. 1,000 MW. The contract has been concluded for an offshore wind farm with a capacity of 1,000 MW. Reference is also made to the contract notice no 2020/S187-448425 published 22 September 2020 and the prior information notice on this tender no. 2020/S 064-152011 published 31 March 2020. Further information on the tender can be found in the electronic tendering system used by the DEA:  https://www.ethics.dk/ethics/eo#/bfb4d610-bfa1-4bfe-8808-6deb212e27cb/homepage
Offshore wind farm and grid connection in the Danish North Sea west of Thorsminde at Nissum Fjord, min. 20 km off the coast north of Nissum Fjord up to POC at Volder Mark
The tender concerned a concession for the Thor Offshore Wind Farm, which will be located in the North Sea west of Thorsminde by Nissum Fjord at a distance of minimum 20 km from the shore and with a capacity of min. 800 MW and max. 1,000 MW. The concession owner of Thor Offshore Wind Farm will receive subsidies in the form of a price premium for a 20-year period. The subsidies will be granted in accordance with a CfD-scheme designed for this tender.
The concessionaire shall carry out installation of the offshore wind farm, including possible offshore substation(s) and the grid connection from the offshore substation to the POC at the nearshore substation on land. The wind farm must be fully established and connected to grid 31 December 2027.
The financing of the installation of the offshore wind farm including Energinet’s part of the onshore facilities is to be paid by the concessionaire. The concessionaire will also be required to pay for pre-investigations etc. conducted by Energinet, and for any necessary mitigating actions in relation to Danish radar installations. License for electricity production and authorisation will be granted for 30 years with the possibility of a prolongation of 5 years if allowed under applicable regulation at the relevant time. The concessionaire must connect 95 % of the wind farm to the onshore POC by 31 December 2027 at the latest. The concession contract includes a possibility to request the DEA for later inclusion of a PtX-solution.
The estimated contract value in the Contract Notice was DKK 15.5 bn.  The amount was an estimate of the total expected contract value, where the estimate is CAPEX-figures for a 900 MW wind farm. For a contract value adding a +/- 5 % safety margin the figures DKK 13.2 bn (800 MW) to DKK 17.7 bn (1,000 MW) have been estimated. The contractor's final tender included an offer to build a 1,000 MW wind farm. Therefore, the contract value is now estimated to DKK 17.7 bn (rounded numbers).
Pursuant to the Danish Act on the Complaints Board for Public Procurement, etc. (lov om Klagenævnet for Udbud m.v.) (the Act is available in Danish at www.retsinformation.dk), the following deadline applies to the lodging of complaints:
According to section 7(2) of the Act, complaints must be lodged with the Danish Complaints Board for Public Procurement before the expiry of 45 calendar days after the contracting entity has published a notice in the Official Journal of the European Union that the contracting entity has entered into a contract. The deadline is calculated from the day after the day when the notice was published.
Not later than at the time of lodging a complaint with the Danish Complaints Board for Public Procurement, the complainant must notify the contracting entity in writing that a complaint has been lodged with the Danish Complaints Board for Public Procurement and whether the appeal was lodged during the standstill
period, see section 6(4) of the Act. In cases where the complaint was not lodged during the standstill period, the complainant must furthermore indicate whether a suspensory effect of the complaint has been requested, see clause 12(1) of the Act.
The e-mail address of the Complaints Board for Public Procurement is set out in section VI.4.1). The Complaints Board’s own complaints procedure is available at www. erhvervsstyrelsen.dk.


Winner: Thor Wind Farm I/S
Award value: 17700000000
Number of bids: 6