Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2021-12-22
Buyer: Electricity Supply Board (ESB)
Country: IE
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 45251100: Construction work for power stations
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: 1.The supply and installation of 3 X aero derivative gas turbine generators (each a “Generation Unit”) is necessary and are being purchased now by the contracting entity due to the extreme urgency for back up generation supply due to the sudden and unforeseen electricity generation capacity constraints and increased demand now forecast for forthcoming winters so that this additional 190MW of electricity capacity can be made available to the national grid of Ireland for forthcoming winters.
2.The supplies of these Generation Units  have been contracted to be purchased from an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) by the contracting entity, as a matter of extreme urgency and in unforeseen circumstances on 05 November 2021. These 3 Generation Units will be delivered by the OEM to the 3 sites in Dublin, beginning in September 2022.
3.The framework agreement for the design, construction, installation and commissioning of these 3 Generation Units on the 3 identified sites in Dublin, Ireland will take a minimum of 21 months and therefore this framework agreement has now been awarded and concluded with the contractor, so that this design, construction, installation and commissioning can commence immediately and as a matter of extreme urgency. This is necessary to ensure that the 3 Generation Units will be installed and commissioned by Winter 2023 at the latest.
4.The immediate availability and purchase from the OEM of these 3 Generation Units was unforeseen and necessitated the immediate award and conclusion of this framework agreement for design, construction, installation and commissioning of same and did not allow the contracting entity to comply with the time limits laid down for the tender procedures with a prior call for competition.
5.Since the contractor had tendered and been selected in January 2021 as the preferred bidder on an earlier tender process (since cancelled) for this contract in respect of the design, installation and commissioning of the 3 Generation Units, an agreement was at an advanced stage which enabled this framework to be concluded with the contractor as a matter of extreme urgency.
1.Following a previous request for and evaluation of tenders issued by the contracting entity under a qualification system as part of the Aeros (2019 Capacity Market Auction Contract) procurement process for Design & Build services for 3 consented sites in Dublin, the contractor was successful in being appointed the provisional preferred tenderer in January 2021. This evaluation included a full engineering and technical assessment of the contractor’s proposal
2.Contractual and technical discussions between the contracting entity and the contractor progressed during these exclusive negotiations in Q1 2021 for a period of c.4months, the appointed contractor is therefore uniquely informed and from a technical perspective is the only contractor that has the requisite knowledge and research done on the technical requirements of this model of Generation Unit so as to enable them to commence a contract for the design and installation of these Generation Units immediately. As of the date of the award of the framework agreement to the contractor referred to in this notice, there is no other contractor that has the technical knowledge and capability to immediately commence the design and installation works required for these 3 Generation Units.


Winner: Atlantic Projects Company