Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-11-11
Buyer: Energinet Eltransmission A/S
Country: DK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 71313000: Environmental engineering consultancy services | 71313400
Estimated value: 647945 EUR
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and Environmental Investigations for Hesselø Off-shore Wind Farm
In June 2020 the Danish Parliament decided to commence the development of the future offshore wind farm (OWF) project, Hesselø. The OWF site is located in the inner Danish sea, Kattegat, and has been subject to screening studies. Following the political decision, the Danish Energy Agency has instructed the Energinet to initiate site investigations, environmental and metocean studies and analysis for grid connection for the area of investigation. The current tender concerns consultancy services for preparing environmental assessments, planning consents and marine environmental baseline investigations for offshore wind projects in Denmark. For further details concerning the purchase, reference is made to the scope of services.
The Hesselø windfarm area – which is located more than 30 km north of Zealand – and at Energinets and Consultants offices.
In June 2020 the Danish Parliament decided to commence the development of the future offshore wind farm (OWF) project, Hesselø. The OWF site is located in the inner Danish sea, Kattegat, and has been subject to screening studies. Following the political decision, the Danish Energy Agency has instructed the Energinet to initiate site investigations, environmental and metocean studies and analysis for grid connection for the area of investigation. The current tender concerns consultancy services for preparing environmental assessments, planning consents and marine environmental baseline investigations for offshore wind projects in Denmark.
Please note that this is a negotiated procedure. With the exception of mandatory parts, the tender documents may as a result undergo changes as part of the negotiation process.
Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and Environmental Investigations for Hesselø Off-shore Wind Farm
The applicant must submit a completed ESPD to apply for pre-qualification for this tender procedure. The ESPD for this tender can be found via EU-supply. The ESPD must be completed in EU-Supply and submitted via ‘My Response’.
— An applicant participating on its own, but relying on the capacities of one or more other entities (e.g. a parent or sister company or a subcontractor), must ensure that the application includes the applicants own ESPD together with a separate ESPD from each of the entities it relies on with a completed part II: ‘Information concerning the economic operator’ and part III: ‘Exclusion grounds’ of the ESPD as well as the relevant information regarding part IV: ‘Selection criteria’ and part V: ‘Reduction of the number of qualified candidates’. The ESPD from each of the entities should be duly filled and signed by the entities concerned.
Further where an applicant wants to rely on the capacities of other entities, it shall prove to the contracting authority that it will have at its disposal the resources necessary, for example, by producing a commitment by those entities to that effect, which must be submitted as part of the final documentation.
— Where groups of economic operators, including temporary associations, participate together in the procurement procedure, a complete separate ESPD for each of the participating economic operators must be submitted.
Further the final documentation must include a signed declaration by all parties of the group of economic operators (joint venture, consortium or other) stating that all economic operators assume joint and several liabilities towards the contracting authority for the performance of the contract as a whole.
Complaints regarding a candidate not being pre-qualified must be filed with The Complaints Board for Public Procurement within 20 calendar days starting the day after the contracting authority has sent notification to the candidates involved, provided that the notification includes a short account of the relevant reasons for the decision.
1) 45 calendar days after the contracting authority has published a contract award notice in the Official Journal of the European Union (with effect from the day following the publication date);
2) 30 calendar days starting the day after the contracting authority has informed the tenderers in question, that the contracting authority has entered into a contract based on a framework agreement through reopening of competition or a Dynamic Purchasing System, provided that the notification includes a short account of the relevant reasons for the decision;
3) 6 months starting the day after the contracting authority has sent notification to the candidates/tenderers involved that the contracting authority has entered into the framework agreement, provided that the notification included a short account of the relevant reasons for the decision.


Winner: NIRAS
Award value: 647945