Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
Sellafield Ltd
01002607
Calder Bridge
Seascale
CA20 1PG
UK
Contact person: Sandra Norman
E-mail: sandra.norman@sellafieldsites.com
NUTS: UKD11
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/sellafield-ltd
Address of the buyer profile: https://sharedsystems.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/3510
I.2) Joint procurement
The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
I.5) Main activity
Other: Nuclear Decommissioning
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
Contract Award Notice for Fellside CHP Plant
II.1.2) Main CPV code
65410000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
Award of continuation of Operations, Maintenance and Management Agreement for Fellside CHP Plant.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
44 265 000.00
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
09322000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKD11
UK
Main site or place of performance:
Sellafield Ltd, Cumbria, CA20 1PG.
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
Operations, Maintenance and Management of the Fellside CHP Plant.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion: Technical
/ Weighting: 100
Price
/ Weighting:
0
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
No
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Award of a contract without prior publication of a call for competition
Justification for selected award procedure:
The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the Directive
Explanation
The Combined Heat and Power Plant (CHP) situated at Fellside focusses on the safety critical function of providing steam to Sellafield site. CHP is an ageing fragile facility near the end of its design life. Sellafield undertook a review of current and future site steam requirements, the Sellafield Site Steam Strategy, concluding that future steam delivery for site operations will be via two Steam Generation Plants (SGP) currently due to be fully operational by 2021. CHP operations will be required until replacement by these new facilities following which CHP will be wound down in preparation for decommissioning and demolition. The strategy from CHP to boiler only operations necessitates an extension of the contractual arrangements with the current CHP ops and maintenance provider until March 2021. Extension of the current arrangements have taken place by way of a new contract with the existing provider PX Limited to safely ensure continued operations of CHP which, given the age of the facility requires ongoing significant care, repair and maintenance. This will include undertaking key activities for plant upgrades to comply with Industrial Emissions Directive (2010/75/EU), and provision of care and maintenance of aged and obsolete equipment. The first SGP is due to be commissioned in spring 2018 with PX heavily involved in key transitional activities leading to full operations. It was determined that in the circumstances competition to deliver the services was absent for technical reasons and that, pursuant to Article 32(2)(b)(II) of Directive 2014/24/EU and Regulation 32(2)(b)(II) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, Sellafield may award a contract to PX using the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice in the Official Journal. In particular, based upon our assessment of the market and feedback, Sellafield considered that there was no practical alternative to continuing to engage PX to deliver steam and provide care, repair and maintenance services. Given, in particular, that PX is the only organisation with detailed understanding of CHP and Sellafield’s specific technical and operational requirements necessary to ensure safe and effective provision of services. Engaging a substitute provider would have carried very significant operational risks for Sellafield. Once the 2 new SGP’s are commissioned and in operation, Sellafield intends to bring to the market the opportunity to operate and maintain the two new SGP’s.
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
Yes
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure
Notice number in the OJ S:
2018/S 040-088200
Section V: Award of contract
Contract No: 1
Title: Contract Award Notice for Fellside CHP Plant
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
28/03/2018
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 1
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
PX Limited
4373756
PX House, Westpoint Road
Stockton-on-Tees
TS17 6BF
UK
NUTS: UKC11
The contractor is an SME:
No
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Initial estimated total value of the contract/lot:
Total value of the contract/lot:
: 44 265 000.00
GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
Sellafield Ltd
Banna Court, Westlakes Science and technology Park
Moor Row
CA24 3HW
UK
E-mail: sandra.norman@sellafieldsites.com
Internet address(es)
URL: www.sellafieldsites.com
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
25/04/2018