Sandbank TETRA Wind Turbine Tower Repeaters

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Engineer, supply, install, configure and commission one TETRA repeater system in each of the 72 wind turbine towers for the Sandbank offshore wind-farm. The scope of supply shall include 72 repeater units including external and internal antennas, necessary cabling and mounting hardware. In order to install the external antennas and cabling to the exterior of the towers a mounting system shall be engineered and supplied and installed for each repeater system.Each repeater system and related hardware as described above shall be installed in each of the wind turbine towers at the quayside in the Port of Esbjerg, Denmark. Ideally, the repeater systems should be completely configured and commissioned prior to installation in the wind turbine towers however this shall be completed no later than load-out of the wind turbine towers for offshore erection. Any remaining works that, due to timing or other reasons, cannot be completed before tower load-out shall be completed offshore once the wind turbine in question has been made available to the Contractor.Each repeater system shall repeat the incoming and outgoing TETRA radio signals (by Others) such that high quality voice calls are possible from any part of tower/turbine and foundation transition piece down to the level of the air-tight deck.The Contractor shall engineer and adapt any and all necessary interfaces to equipment by Others. The Contractor shall have full responsibility for defining, designing and ensuring compatibility and functionality of such interfaces. Specifically, the Contractor shall have full responsibility for the interface between the tower repeaters and the hand-held radios (by Others) and the TETRA Base Station (by Others) in its final location and configuration for Sandbank including any and all alignment with the Base Station supplier.The Employer reserves the right to require the Contractor to carry out a real-world mock-up test (to be agreed with Employer) in order to prove the compatibility of the Contractor's equipment with the TETRA Base Station and hand-held radios in a set-up similar to the final installation.In the event that offshore works are required, the Contractor shall ensure that it's personnel has the necessary training for transportation, access and working on/inside offshore wind turbines. Safety equipment not provided by the Employer shall be provided by the Contractor.

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The application and tender procedure is conducted in accordance with EU procurement regulations.

Pursuant to this regulation the following procedural guidelines have to be observed:

A. Formal.

1. The participation application and the corresponding confirmations/declarations/documentation must be made in writing in English language and additional electronic on a data carrier (CD) submission to the specified point of contact by the closing date. Submission by telefax or electronic form, e.g. by e-mail, is not sufficient.

2. All declarations and confirmations specified in the announcement must be submitted completely. The participation application, confirmations and declarations must be signed personally in original and as legally binding. Copies or Scans of signatures are not allowed.

3. The application documents must be structured according to No. III. 2) and have to contain the requested information in the respective category. Otherwise the awarding authority is not obliged to take such information into consideration. A reference to an earlier application is not sufficient.

4. The application must contain the applicant's consent to the fact that the awarding authority may be exchanged with another entity. It might be necessary to change the awarding authority to a separate legal entity within the group of the awarding authority in the course of the tender procedure.

5. Applicants who are not seated in Germany shall submit their registry copies, confirmations, certifications and qualifications in accordance with the legal requirements of the seating country.

6. Applicants shall state in their application details of any service(s) / work for execution of services, are to be awarded to third parties as subcontractors. In such case, an index of subcontractors with corresponding service(s) / work and the necessary information/declarations/confirmations must be attached to the application.

7. The obligation of the submission of certificates is not applicable, if a comparable register does not exist or if a registration is not necessary in the particular country. In this case applicant has to give sufficient evidence that a comparable register does not exist or if a registration is not necessary.

8. The required information, declarations and confirmations do not constitute minimum conditions. Essential information, i.e. information which absolutely must be submitted by the end of the application period, is designated as ‘minimum conditions’. Delay or failure to submit information designated as ‘minimum conditions’ will result in exclusion from the procedure. The awarding authority reserves the right to require further declarations and confirmations, but is not obliged to do so, neither are the applicants entitled to complete their documents.

9. The decision on the invitation to tender will take into account the principles of transparency, equal access, publicity and equal treatment.

10. Regarding to the technical capacity (point III.2.3) of this publication) and deviant to the additional information (point VI.3) of this publication) the bidder has to be able to create necessary documents for permissions in German.

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11. The awarding authority is not liable for any costs incurred by the applicants nor shall it reimburse any expenses or losses which applicants incur or suffer in connection with the application procedure, including in the event of a cancellation.

B. Selecting the operators who will be invited to tender.

The awarding authority will examine the participation applications in a 4-stage process:

1. Examination of the required confirmations and qualifications,

2. Examination of potential reasons for exclusion (‘minimum conditions’),

3. Examination of the suitability of the applicant in accordance with the published participation conditions which are not designated as minimum condition.

4. In case that, as a result of the examination more than 5 applicants will meet the required demands, the awarding authority reserves the right to send out the invitation to tender (ITT) to the most suitable applicants in consideration of the following qualification criteria:

— all required information, declarations and confirmation designated as ‘other information’ will be evaluated each with 1 point if submitted; otherwise with 0 points.

The evaluation will follow in accordance with the valuation rules for the particularly qualification criteria.

The selection of applicants will follow the ranking as a summary of the awarded scores. The Awarding Authority reserves the right in the case that more than 5 applicants fulfil the requirements to select the 5 best applicants based on the ranking list. The higher the rank, the better.

C. Conditions relating to the contract.

1. The contract award is subject to approval by the corporate bodies of the awarding authority (i.e. Board of Directors of Sandbank Offshore Wind GmbH) (organ reservation).

2. The contract award is subject to the confirmation by the awarding authority that the work described in this announcement will be carried out with commercial reasonableness.

3. The contract award is subject to the issuance of the necessary permits, approvals and regulatory licenses.

4. The awarding authority reserves the right to cancel the tender procedure in its entirety or in parts at any time.

5. The awarding authority is not liable for any costs incurred by the bidders nor shall it reimburse any expenses or losses which bidders incur or suffer in connection with the tender procedure, including in the event of a cancellation.

Beschreibung der Optionen

Offshore service/maintenance of each TETRA repeater system and related hardware described herein for a period to be defined. The Contractor shall ensure that it's personnel has the necessary training for transportation, access and working on/inside offshore wind turbines. Safety equipment not provided by the Employer shall be provided by the Contractor.

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2 or more applicants may also form a grouping in the form of an application consortium in order to obtain an ITT. No specific legal form is required but the individual members of such a consortium should be jointly and separately liable for performance of the contract. The application and later bidder consortium shall remain unchanged throughout the whole procedure until the works have been completed. If unforeseen circumstances require a change in the composition of such consortium, the awarding authority may allow such change at its sole discretion provided that the change does not distort competition amongst the applicants.