Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2025-11-14
Buyer: Femern Bælt A/S
Country: DK
Region: DK011
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71300000 | 71324000: Quantity surveying services | 71541000: Construction project management services | 79411000 | 79419000
Estimated value: 30000000 EUR
Award criteria: quality, price
EU fund: eu-funds

Technical requirements: Femern A/S is the state-owned project company entrusted with the planning, procurement and delivery of the Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link. Femern A/S is a subsidiary of Sund & Bælt Holding A/S, which is fully owned by the Danish Ministry of Transport.

Femern A/S requires Quantity Surveying services in connection with the implementation the Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link – one of Europe’s largest and most technically ambitious infrastructure projects (hereinafter “the Project”).

The Project comprises the construction of an 18-kilometre immersed tunnel between Rødbyhavn (Denmark) and Puttgarden (Germany) under the Fehmarn Belt. The tunnel will accommodate a four-lane motorway and a double-track electrified railway, significantly reducing travel time and strengthening transport links between Scandinavia and continental Europe.

The works have been divided into a number of contract packages, including: 
1. tunnel dredging and reclamation (TDR Contract); 
2. cut-and-over parts, portal buildings, ramps and light attenuation structures and landside civil engineering (TPR Contract); 
3. the construction of the southern part of the immersed tunnel (TUS Contract); 
4. the construction of the northern part of the immersed tunnel (TUN Contract); and 
5. various packages of mechanical and electrical works; track installation; communications systems; tolling systems; lighting and power systems. (mainly TEM Contract, TPS Contract and TTC Contract).

The contractors engaged on the Project are large international contractors and joint ventures. A list of contractors and other counterparties is stated in Appendix 1 – Scope of Services, section 5. 
 
The contracts are based on FIDIC Silver Book 1999 with a number of amendments.

To support the continued execution and governance of the project, Femern A/S seeks assistance from a highly competent and independent Quantity Surveying (QS) company. The QS will be required to support Femern A/S in in the areas of:
• Professional assessment and negotiation of contractor claims, including delay, disruption and other cost claims
• Structured cost and quantity management 
• High-volume data analysis
• Verification and audit of contractor invoicing under lump sum, remeasured, and cost-plus / time-and-material contracts
• Preparation of Expert Reports for use in formal dispute resolution, including arbitration under ICC rules, and in accordance with IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration 
• Cross-examination regarding such Export Reports

Femern A/S has a strong internal project organisation and is supported by a number of Danish and international advisors within technical, legal, environmental, and financial areas. The QS must work in close collaboration with the internal team and external advisors, ensuring accurate cost control, well-founded assessments, and structured documentation.

Although the specific scope and volume of tasks cannot be fully defined in advance – as it depends on the evolving nature of the Project and ongoing dialogue with contractors – a significant need for QS services is expected for the remainder of the project and beyond. The QS provider must be able to mobilise highly qualified resources on short notice.

A non-exhaustive list of expected services is provided in the tender documents – see among others  Appendix 1 (Scope of Services).
Reference is made to Appendix A to the Tender Specifications
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 deadlines apply to the lodging of complaints: 

1) 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. 

2) 30 calendar days calculated from the day after the day when the contracting entity has notified the candidates concerned that a contract based on a framework agreement with reopening of competition or a dynamic purchasing system has been entered into if the notification has included an explanation of the relevant grounds for the decision.

3) 6 months after the contracting entity entered into a framework agreement calculated from the day after the day when the contracting entity notified the candidates and tenderers concerned, see section 2(2) of the Act and section 171(4) of the Danish Public Procurement Act. 

4) 20 calendar days calculated from the day after the contracting entity has submitted notification of its decision, see section 185(2) of the Danish Public Procurement Act. 

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 complaint was lodged during the standstill period, see section 6(4) of the Act. In cases where the complaint was not lodged within the standstill period, the complainant must furthermore indicate whether a suspensory effect of the complaint has been requested, see section 12(1) of the Act. 

The e-mail address of the Complaints Board for Public Procurement is nh@naevneneshus.dk. 

The Complaints Board’s own complaints procedure is available at https://naevneneshus.dk/start-din-klage/klagenaevnet-for-udbud/vejledning/.


Winner: Turner & Townsend ApS
Award value: 30000000
Number of bids: 4