Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-01-23
Buyer: Femern A/S
Country: DK
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Competitive dialogue
CPV classification: 31625100 | 31682210 | 31682510 | 32000000 | 34993100
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: EU Fund

Technical requirements: The Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link Project is the final stage in the realisation of a straight traffic corridor between Scandinavia and continental Europe. This is intended to be an immersed tunnel containing 2 dual carriageways and a twin-track railway. It will traverse the 19 km distance across the Fehmarnbelt between Rødby on the island of Lolland in Denmark and Puttgarden on the island of Fehmarn in northern Germany.
Femern A/S requires design, procurement and building/installation of a mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, control and automation system for the tunnel that delivers a high level of reliability, availability, maintainability and safety. The objective of the tunnel MEICA System is to enable Femern A/S to efficiently manage the operation, maintenance, safety and security of the tunnel through an integrated set of electrical and mechanical systems.
Femern A/S has an ongoing procurement process for the tunnel electrical and mechanical contract. However, this procurement process has been awaiting the process regarding obtaining the final German plan approval. Femern A/S has carried out a market consultation (see 2019/S 176-427531). Following this Femern A/S has now concluded that continuing with the paused procurement is no longer viable. Femern A/S wishes to pursue the best overall value for the project and has determined this is best achieved by making a new call for competition. Femern A/S has accordingly decided to terminate the procurement process in order to make a new call for competition. Such a new call for competition will e.g. allow Femern A/S to make needed changes in the tender material without consideration to the original tender material (e.g. award criteria, etc.). Femern A/S expects to start a new procurement process during 2020.
The construction of the fixed link across the Fehmarn Belt receives EU funding from the CEF programme under project code 2014-EU-TM-0221-W
Pursuant to the Danish Act on the Complaints Board for Public Procurement the following deadlines apply to the lodging of complaints:
Complaints regarding decisions related to the tender must be submitted to the Danish Complaints Board for Public Procurement within 45 calendar days after the contracting authority has published a notice in the Official Journal of the European Union that the contracting authority has entered into a contract. The deadline is calculated from the day after publication of the notice, cf. Section 7(2) in the Act.
No later than at the time of lodging a complaint to the Danish Complaints Board for Public Procurement the complainant must notify the contracting authority in writing that a complaint has been lodged with the Danish Complaints Board for Public Procurement. The complainant must state whether the complaint was lodged within the standstill period. In cases where the complaint was not lodged within the standstill period, the complainant must furthermore state whether it is requested that the complaint is granted suspensory effect.
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