Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-04-08
Buyer: Electricity Supply Board (ESB )
Country: IE
Region: IRELAND
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 45200000: Building and civil engineering work | 45220000 | 65300000: Electricity distribution and related services | 71300000 | 71310000
Submission deadline: 2016-05-09
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: ESB plans to develop circa 20 to 30 ground mounted solar farms (up to circa 100 MW — with the potential that this may extend to 500MW — in aggregate) in the period from Q2, 2016 to Q4, 2021. The location of these proposed solar farms will be in both the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland.
The potential scale of these individual solar developments is that they are expected to typically range between 5 MW and 20 MW. There is the potential that certain individual developments will be larger.
ESB is seeking expressions of interest for the provision of full Engineering, Procurement, Construction (EPC) services for ESB and/or JV owned sites or leased sites.
ESB plans to develop circa 20 to 30 ground mounted solar farms (up to circa 100 MW — with the potential that this may extend to 500MW — in aggregate) in the period from Q2, 2016 to Q4, 2021. The location of these proposed solar farms will be in both the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland.
The potential scale of these individual solar developments is that they are expected to typically range between 5 MW and 20 MW. There is the potential that certain individual developments will be larger.
ESB is seeking expressions of interest for the provision of full Engineering, Procurement, Construction (EPC) services for ESB and/or JV owned sites or leased sites.
The initial framework term will be 3 years. The contracting entity reserves the option, at its own discretion, to extend this framework agreement from its initial 3 year term, by an additional 2 years.
If the tender is submitted by a group of suppliers, then those suppliers, if awarded the contract, shall assume such legal form by corporation, partnership or otherwise as will enable them to contract as a single entity, and assume joint and severable responsibility for the contract.
ESB, its subsidiary and associate companies and/or its joint venture partnerships existing or yet to be formed, is inviting interested parties to register their interest on the e-tenders website — the Irish Government‘s e-tendering platform (www.etenders.gov.ie). There are no costs associated with registration. All information relating to and including the pre-qualification documents, any clarifications or changes will be issued/published via this portal. The e-tenders reference is: “RFT 104256 — GWM3591 — Ground Mounted Solar Farms — EPC“.
An email request should be forwarded through the e-tenders platform to request the pre-qualification documentation and questionnaire.
All requests for clarification in respect of the documents must be received on or before close of business at 16:00 GMT on 29.4.2016.
The PQQ must be completed and uploaded via http://www.etenders.gov.ie/ no later than 16:00 GMT on 9.5.2016.
The responses received will be evaluated and used in drawing up a tender list. The contracting entity will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates or tenderers relating to this contract award procedure.
It is envisaged that up to 8 of the highest-scoring suitably qualified Applicants will be shortlisted to proceed to the Invitation to Tender stage of the procurement competition.
The Contracting Entity will not accept responsibility for information relayed (or not relayed) by third parties.