CONTRACT NOTICE – OFFICIAL JOURNAL

Section I: Contracting Authority

I.1)

Name, Address and Contact Point(s)

I.2)

Type of contracting Authority and Main Activity or Activities

Other (Please specify) Private Company

General public services Defence Public order and safety Environment Economic and financial affairs Health Housing and community amenities Social protection Recreation, culture and religion Education Other (Please specify) Renewable Energy

Section II: Object of the Contract

II.1)

Description

II.1.1)

Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority

II.1.2(a))

Type of works contract

II.1.2(b))

Type of supplies contract

Purchase		Rent		Lease
Hire-purchase		Combination of these

II.1.2(c))

Type of service contract

II.1.2)

Main site or location of works, place of delivery or performance

Pembrokeshire, South Wales

II.1.3)

This notice involves

A public contract
The setting up of a Dynamic Purchasing System
The establishment of a framework agreement

II.1.4)

Information on framework agreement (if applicable)

Framework agreement with a single operators
Framework agreement with several operators

Number of participants to the framework agreement envisaged

Duration of the framework agreement

Justification for a framework agreement the duration of which exceeds four years

Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the framework agreement

Frequency and value of the contracts to be awarded

II.1.5)

Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

Tidal Energy Limited (TEL) is a privately owned technology development company exclusively developing an innovative tidal stream generator, known as DeltaStream. TEL has identified a demonstration test site at Ramsey Sound, Pembrokeshire and has obtained all the necessary consent licences to install a DeltaStream device in 2013 for a 12 month test period. The project is financed by shareholders and a capital grant from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) administered by the Welsh Government. This funding has brought the project to a state of readiness wherein TEL wishes to award contracts for the construction, deployment and test of the DeltaStream device. TEL wishes to appoint a Contractor for the design, manufacture and delivery of the submarine cable connecting the DeltaStream unit to the shore.

An initial 400KW full scale single turbine unit will be installed as part of the first phase of development. Subsequent upgrades will be made to bring the DeltaStream up to full three turbine 1.2MW capacity as part of the DeltaStream development plan, however this scope of supply is purely to satisfy the requirements of the first prototype deployment..

The DeltaStream device shall have its own induction generator that will be connected to shore by a power cable. ‘Raw’ power from the generator at a nominal 450kVA, 3 phase, 6.6kv will be transmitted to the power conditioning plant located ashore at the point of connection to the local electrical distribution system.

No local power will be generated on the device to power auxiliary systems so all auxiliary power will also be supplied at 3 phase, 6.6kv within the submarine cable. The submarine cable will be laid directly on the seabed and will not be trenched. In addition to the power conductors, at least one cable shall carry fibre optic links for control and monitoring signals, and an auxiliary power cable required to supply power for auxiliary power supplies on the DeltaStream device.

This contract will require the supply of either a single cable that has 6 cores (for the two sets of 3 phase 6.6kV) or two cables each with 3 cores (3phase / 6.6kV), each to be terminated at the device and at a shore side termination box.

II.1.6)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

II.1.7)

Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

II.1.8)

Division into lots

II.1.9)

Will variants be accepted

II.2)

Quantity or Scope of the Contract

II.2.1)

Total quantity or scope

II.2.2)

Options

Provisional timetable for recourse to these options

Number of possible renewals

In the case of renewable supplies or service contracts, estimated time frame for subsequent contracts

II.3)

Duration of the contract or limit for completion

Section III: Legal, Economic, Financial and Technical Information

III.1)

Conditions Relating to the Contract

III.1.1)

Deposits and guarantees required

A parent company guarantee and/or performance bond(s) may be required, and a parent company guarantee shall be required if an applicant/economic operator is relying on the resources of financial standing of its parent company. Details and other details of deposits and/or guarantees required (if any) shall be included in the contract documents which will be issued at the invitation to tender stage.

III.1.2)

Main Terms of financing and payment and/or reference to the relevant provisions

Details to be included in the contract documents which will be issued at the invitation to tender stage.

III.1.3)

Legal form to be taken by the grouping of suppliers, contractors or service providers to whom the contract is to be awarded

Where a consortium of economic operators is applying, the contracting authority may require the consortium to form a legal entity before entering into or as a term of the contract or require that the members of the consortium under the terms of the contract become jointly and severally liable to the contracting authority for the performance of the contract.

III.1.4)

Other particular conditions to which the performance of the contract is subject

Details to be included in the contract documents which will be issued at the invitation to tender stage.

III.2)

Conditions for Participation

III.2.1)

Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers

(a) is bankrupt or is being wound up, whose affairs are being administered by the courts, who has entered into an arrangement with creditors or who is in any analogous situation arising from a similar procedure under national laws and regulations;

(b) is the subject of proceedings for a declaration of bankruptcy, for an order for compulsory winding-up or administration by the courts or for an arrangement with creditors or is the subject of any other similar proceeding under national laws or regulations;

(c) has been convicted of an offence concerning his professional conduct by a judgement which has the force of res judicata;

(d) has been guilty of grave professional misconduct proven by any means which the contracting authorities can justify;

(e) has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of social security contributions in accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which he is established or those of the country of the contracting authority;

(f) has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of taxes in accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which he is established or those of the country of the contracting authority;

(g) is guilty of serious misrepresentation in supplying the information required under the provisions of the Directive on the criteria for qualitative selection;

III.2.2)

Economic and financial capacity

III.2.3)

Technical capacity

III.2.4)

Reserved contracts

The contract is restricted to sheltered workshops
The execution of the contract is restricted to the framework of sheltered employment programmes

III.3)

Conditions Specific to Service Contracts

III.3.1)

Is provision of the service reserved to a specific profession?

III.3.2)

Will legal entities be required to state the names and professional qualifications of the personnel responsible for the execution of the service?

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)

Type of Procedure

Open		Restricted
Accelerated restricted		Negotiated
Accelerated negotiated		Competitive dialogue

Justification for the choice of accelerated procedure

IV.1.1)

Have candidates already been selected?

IV.1.2)

Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate

Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates

IV.1.3)

Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue

Recourse to staged procedure to gradually reduce the number of solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiated

IV.2)

Award Criteria

IV.2.2)

An electronic auction will be used

IV.3 Administrative Information

IV.3.1)

Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

CRW/OJEU/ITT/02 V2

IV.3.2)

Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

Prior Information Notice
Notice on a Buyer Profile

Other previous publications

IV.3.3)

Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents

IV.3.4)

Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

IV.3.5)

Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates

IV.3.6)

Language or languages in which tenders or requests to participate can be drawn up

IV.3.7)

Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender 

IV.3.8)

Conditions for opening tenders

Section VI: Other Information

VI.1)

Indicate whether this procurement is a recurrent one and the Estimated timing for further notices to be published

VI.2)

Does the contract relate to a Project/Programme financed by Community Funds?

The project is part financed by EU funds.

VI.3)

Additional Information

Economic operators should note that the contracting authority is not a “contracting authority” as defined under the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 as amended from time to time (the Regulations). The contracting authority is therefore not bound by the Regulations or obliged to comply with the Regulations, and this OJEU notice is non-mandatory. (Section VI.4.2 of this OJEU notice is therefore blank.)

The contracting authority is however publishing this OJEU notice in respect of the contract, and running the tender process in accordance with restricted procedure under the Regulations to comply with the requirements of the Wales European Funding Office (to whom the contracting authority is applying for ERDF Funding, as set out in Section VI.2 of this OJEU notice).

The contracting authority reserves the right not to award any or part of the contract which is the subject of this OJEU notice.

The contracting authority will not be liable for any costs incurred by those expressing an interest in tendering for this contract opportunity.

The contracting authority reserves the right to terminate the procurement process or part of it, to change the basis of and the procedures for the procurement process at any time or to procure the contract by alternative means.

VI.4)

Procedures for appeal

VI.4.1)

Body responsible for appeal procedures

Body responsible for mediation procedures

VI.4.2)

Lodging of appeals
Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals:

VI.4.3)

Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained

VI.5)

Dispatch date of this Notice