Public procurement notice: Periodic Indicative Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2019-06-18
Buyer: EDF Renewables
Country: FR
Contract type: Supplies
CPV classification: 09331200: Solar photovoltaic modules

Technical requirements: This notice aims to inform the photovoltaic economic operators that EDF Renewables is launching a sourcing action to identify suppliers able to supply low reflection photovoltaic modules satisfying the French CRE tender requirements, which can be installed in airport vicinity, and which can comply to the French DGAC safety and security standards in the air transport sector.
EDF Renewables has a qualification system for the supply of thin film and crystalline (poly and mono) modules which details are published under the reference 2017/S 056-104941 at the Official Journal of the EU.
EDF Renouvelables (EDF Renewables in France) is looking for new areas to develop solar projects in France in order to be part of the EDF Solar Plan objective that aim to build 30GW of solar power in France from 2020 to 2035.
The vicinity of airports offers large surfaces available to install solar power plants. A pipeline of solar projects is already identified in those areas.
Some of those projects would take part in auctions organized by French government (French tenders ‘AO PVCRE’ launched by the CRE (Commission de Régulation de l’Energie) taking place every 6 months for a total capacity of 500MWp or more.
In France, the French Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC) maintains high safety and security standards in the air transport sector. Therefore, in order to prevent air transport workers (pilots and air traffic controllers) from being dazzled by the reflection of PV modules, DGAC defined a standard for the installation of solar projects in the vicinity of airports.
In order to develop those specific projects in France and eventually overseas, EDF Renewables foresees to contract with one or several PV module manufacturing companies for the ‘Supply of Low Reflection PV modules’, some of them needing to have a carbon footprint certificate.
A sourcing is initiated by EDF Renewables in order to identify and select one or several PV module manufacturing companies for such supply, in order to engage a technical and commercial dialogue, with the aim to issue at a later stage an invitation to tender for identified projects.
Within 2019 EDF renewables intend to clarify all the technical topics around low reflection modules, and tenderer shall be able to supply the following information:
— clarification on the impact of specific glass on the module performance compared to a standard module,
— information on the O&M for such modules (dedicated Installation and operation manual if any), including the soiling/cleaning aspect,
— lead-time for the module supply (minimum time between contract signature and required delivery date),
— information on the proposed bill of material and supply chain (poly-si, wafers, cells, glass, module).
Following initial evaluation of tenderer replies, EDF Renewables may enter further discussions for the supply of module or invite the respondent to take part in a full RFQ exercise.
For the eventual later procurement phase, a competitive procurement process is being used, using the qualification system ref.2017/S 056-104941 and managed through EDF Renewables procurement portal: https://pha.edf.com