Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2021-04-19
Buyer: TenneT TSO B.V.
Country: NL
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71351000 | 71351710 | 71351920 | 71352000 | 71352110
Estimated value: 5500000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2021-05-25
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The objective of this tender procedure is the execution of a geotechnical soil investigation in order to obtain geotechnical information on the three platform locations of IJmuiden Ver, which is suitable to progress the design and installation requirements for the offshore high voltage substations.
The geotechnical soil investigation must provide relevant information about the soil to a depth below which possible existence of weak formations will not influence the safety or performance of offshore high voltage substations.
The objective of the geotechnical soil investigation is to obtain geotechnical information on this location, which is suitable to progress the design and installation requirements for the offshore high voltage substation.
The geotechnical soil investigation must provide relevant information about the soil to a depth below which possible existence of weak formations will not influence the safety or performance of offshore high voltage substation.
The geotechnical investigation of the IJV platform locations consisting of a combination of sampling with subsequent laboratory testing and in situ testing, should include, but not be limited to stiffness and damping parameters for all important layers:
The laboratory test programme for determination of soil strength and deformation properties shall cover a set of different types of tests and a number of tests of each type, which will suffice to carry out a preliminary foundation design and to establish a design basis for the detailed foundation design.
TenneT requires tenderer to demonstrate that tenderer has the capabilities and core competences listed below, and to that end, submit one reference per core competence for comparable services performed by tenderer in the last 3 years, calculated from the date of publication of this tender.
1) One reference project of a completed offshore geotechnical survey for the design of the piled foundation of offshore platforms or offshore wind turbines, both from an in-place condition and installation point of view. This survey shall include downhole sampling/PCPT boreholes with a target depth of at least 60 meters below sea floor in Dutch Continental Shelf or comparable soil conditions.
2) One reference project regarding completed laboratory testing of samples obtained during the survey and prepare reporting suitable for the design of the piled foundation of offshore platforms or offshore wind turbines, both from an in-place condition and installation point of view.
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 claims. The period of 20 calendar days must therefore be regarded as a time limit.
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 copy of the served summons to stakeholders such as the party or parties awarded the contract.
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.

Eligibility requirements: Please refer to the tender documents at Negometrix.

Award value: 5500000