Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2024-12-03
Region: IE052
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated with prior call for competition
CPV classification: 71311000: Civil engineering consultancy services | 71311100 | 71314300: Energy-efficiency consultancy services | 71317200 | 71317210
Estimated value: 20500000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2025-01-24
Award criteria: price, quality

Technical requirements: The Contracting Entity is seeking to award Framework Agreements for each of the four (4) Lots set out below, under which the Contracting Entity may make call-offs for the provision of certain onshore energy consultancy services (as set out below). The Framework Agreements will be entered into by Orsted Onshore Ireland Midco Limited; however, Applicants are advised that call-offs for consultancy services may be made by any Contracting Entity as elaborated on below. Applicants may submit an Application for one or more Lots.   
Lot B: Provision of planning consultancy services for onshore wind projects in the Republic of Ireland 
Lot C: Provision of ecology consultancy services for onshore wind projects in the Republic of Ireland  
Lot D: Provision of planning and ecology consultancy services for solar projects in the Republic of Ireland  
Lot E: Provision of planning and ecology consultancy services for battery energy storage system projects in the Republic of Ireland .
Please note, that this is a re-issue of notice 341613-2024, as the Contracting Entity has found a need to award a framework agreement for Lot B-E to further suppliers than specified in the previous notice.
In case of discrepancies between what has been listed here and in the PQQ, the text in the PQQ applies. 
Minimum requirement, cf. the PQQ section 3.4.1
The Applicant must fulfil the following minimum requirement regarding experience:
(b)	For Lot B, it is a minimum requirement that the Applicant must provide details of experience, obtained no earlier than 6 June 2019, of preparation, project management and submission of at least one compliant environmental impact assessment report (EIAR), or such equivalent as may be applicable (subject to the discretion of the Contracting Entity to determine whether such reports are in fact equivalent to a compliant EIAR; information on the EIAR, including guidelines on the information to be contained in an EIAR, is available here: https://www.epa.ie/our-services/monitoring--assessment/assessment/environmental-im-pact-assessment/) and associated planning documents in respect of at least one onshore wind reference project with a minimum size of 30MW
Selection criteria, cf. section 3.3.5 of the PQQ:
The Applicant is requested to provide details (as set out below) of reference projects demonstrating the Applicant’s experience of having provided and completed services that are similar in nature to the scope of services described for this Lot B.
Such experience must have been obtained no earlier than 6 June 2019.
For each reference project, the following information is requested: 
(a)	Project name
(b)	Project location and country
(c)	Project period (start commencement and finish completion date)
(d)	Name of client (or if confidential, please state this should be stated)
(e)	Size and overall scope of project
(f)	Project industry (and if the industry is energy-related, Applicants are encouraged to specify the technology and/or focus in the value chain)
(g)	Description of the scope of work including details of the resources the Applicant employed on the project as relevant to the Lot. 
A maximum of three (3) reference projects can be submitted per Applicant. If any additional reference projects are submitted beyond this amount, only the most recent reference contracts up to the maximum number of reference projects will be considered. In such circumstances the most recent reference projects will be determined based on the commencement date. 
If experience of any framework agreements is submitted as part of an Applicant’s reference projects, Applicants are requested to submit the information requested above for the most recent or most significant call-off contract(s) concluded under such framework agreements. References only to the award of a framework agreement without reference to any call-off contract thereunder will be disregarded on the basis that no reference project has been referred to.
The Applicant is requested for Annex D (Response Template), Section 4, row g) to keep the description of each reference project below 2,200 characters including spacing. In the event that the above limit is exceeded, Applicants are advised that only the first 2,200 characters appearing sequentially will be evaluated and any further details will be disregarded for the purpose of this evaluation. 
The Contracting Entity reserves the right to contact the Applicant and/or relevant third parties for verification of the information stated in the description(s).
Assessment of the selection criteria:
The assessment of the Applicant’s experience will be based on the information submitted in accordance with the description above and will be an overall assessment of the relevant submitted reference projects, taking into account in particular the following elements:
(a)	the similarity of the services provided to the scope of services 
(b)	the similarity of the reference projects to the anticipated projects of the Contracting Entity in terms of:
(i) industry (i.e. a reference project will be evaluated more favourably if and to the extent that it was carried out in the energy sector and/or in the renewable energy sector); and
(ii) technology (i.e. it will be evaluated more favourably if and to the extent that a reference project was carried out in respect of the technology or technologies that are the subject of the lot, e.g. onshore wind, solar, battery energy storage system);
(c)	size of the reference projects (i.e. a reference project will be evaluated more favourably (A) if and to the extent that it is at least 20MW (for onshore wind), 10MWp (for solar) and 20MWh (for BESS) and (B) the larger the reference project is); and
(d)	the extent to which the applicable information requested is provided by the Applicant in respect of reference projects (i.e. a reference project will be evaluated more favourably if and to the extent that the Applicant provides the information requested).
The Contracting Entity reserves the right to demand a performance security to secure the proper performance of any call-off agreement under a Framework Agreement. The performance security shall be issued by an entity with a credit rating specified in the tender material.
If the Applicant is a subsidiary, the Contracting Entity also reserves the right to demand a parent company guarantee executed by a direct or indirect parent company of the Applicant.
Without limitation the following applies to the framework agreement:
1.1	Tax Clearance
1.1.1	The successful Shortlisted Applicants must secure tax clearance as a pre-condition to award of the Framework Agreements.
1.2	Joint and Several Liability
1.2.1	If the Applicant is a Consortium:
(a)	the members of the Consortium shall be jointly and severally liable to the Contracting Entity for the performance of the Consortium’s obligations under a Framework Agreement; and
(b)	neither the members nor (if known) the scope and parts of a Framework Agreement to be carried out by each member nor the legal status of the Consortium shall be altered without the prior consent of the Contracting Entity.
Continued in Tendering Process "Additional Information"
Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents.