Klim wind farm

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The scope of work of this tender includes the design, engineering, manufacturing, fabrication, installation, installation equipment, transportation, commissioning and maintenance of twenty one wind turbines. The tender process will conclude in two Contracts; one turbine supply agreement and one service agreement. The two Contracts will be made with the same supplier. The estimated time between signing Contracts and delivery of wind turbines at site is 7-12 month.The total height of the wind turbines shall be between 140m and 150m and rotor diameter hub height ratio shall be between 1:1,1 and 1:1,35.

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Method of submitting the Respondents Application:

The Respondent's Application shall contain as a minimum the information listed in the "Mandatory information to be supplied as part of your Application", stated below. Provided information shall follow the order and format as described. The following shall be submitted by post to the adress of the Point of Contact:

1. A duly signed letter, summarizing the Respondent's Application.

2. An USB-stick containing digital copies of all requested information, which follow the order and format as described in section 9 and if necessary supported by non-critical Appendices.

Any correspondence shall be marked: “Klim wind farm” and shall be sent to the point of contact stated in section I. Replies submitted (the actual Respondents Application) by fax or e-mail will not be accepted. Informal correspondence may be done by e-mail. Vattenfall reserves the right to refuse any documents that have been delivered after the Application due date.

Mandatory information to be supplied as part of your Application:

The Respondents Application shall contain all information as listed below. The structure of the information shall follow the numbers of sections and paragraphs of this request and shall include all listed information including scans of original signed documents and declarations. The Respondents Application and all annexed documents shall be written in English.

1.Respondents Name, including legal form and full address of incorporation. In case Respondent is a Joint Venture or consortium, please include interest and role of each of the partners in the Joint Venture.

2. Detailed contact information of the person responsible for the communication on behalf of the Respondent.

3. Respondents organizational structure, including shareholder and grouping structure and parent/holding company structure if applicable (please include comprehensive organization charts including legal entity names and relations). In case Respondent is a Joint Venture or consortium, please include this information for each participant.

4. General company information, including history and current business outline. In case of a Joint Venture, please include this information for each participant, but in particular for the Joint Venture itself.

5. All information listed in the minimum requirement section III.2) above to be supplied as part of your Application. Please make clear references to each minimum requirement the information is related to. If a Respondent is a consortium or a Joint Venture, section III.2.1) and section III.2.2 are applicable to each member individually. In case of III.2.1) g, this guaranteeing entity is to complete the ‘company requirements' and ‘economic and financial requirements' as listed in the Sections III.2.1) and III.2.2).

6. In case Respondent is a Joint Venture or consortium, please include full legal name of the partner nominated to act as manager of the Joint Venture and who, in such capacity, is authorized or shall be authorized to incur liabilities and enter into contractual relationships with third parties, including settlement of any disputes hereunder, to receive and act upon instruction from Vattenfall, to make and receive payments, all on behalf of the Joint Venture

7. In case Respondent is a Joint Venture or consortium, please include a statement to evidence that the Joint Venture partners are jointly & severally liable.

8. In case Respondent is a Joint Venture or consortium, please include a statement of consent of the parent of each Joint Venture partners that the respective subsidiary has entered into the Joint Venture for the purpose of this Contract.

Additional requirements - Joint Ventures

If the Respondent is a Joint Venture of two or more legal entities (herein referred to as “Joint Venture” or “JV') whether incorporated or unincorporated - the following additional requirements apply:

1. The obligations, risks and liabilities imposed on the Respondent by the tender process and / or by any agreement as a result of this tendering process, if awarded, shall be guaranteed by the partners in that Joint Venture jointly and severally. The Respondents Application and any resulting tender and/or agreement shall be signed for each of those parties by the person or persons authorized to make legally valid commitments;

2. At Conditional Contract Award, the Respondent shall submit proof that the agreement amongst the Joint Venture partners provides that:

a. if a Joint Venture partner goes into liquidation or has a receiving order issued against it, such partner will consent to, and the other partner(s) shall procure that all construction equipment, including without limitation tools, computer programs, and software furnished by the partner in question, and all subcontracts entered into by it, shall continue to be available, or, as the case may be, shall be assigned to the other partner(s), and

b. the structure and membership of the Joint Venture shall be maintained throughout the validity period of the tender and/or agreement;

c. Statement to evidence that the Joint Venture is registered in the register of companies.

3. The Joint Venture shall remain unchanged throughout the whole procedure for the settlement of Contract. If unforeseen circumstances require a change in the composition of such consortium, the awarding entity may allow such change at its sole discretion provided that the change does not distort competition amongst the Tenderers.

Other additional requirements and information:

1. In case Respondents belong to the same group company and/or consortium of service providers and are affiliated to each other by way of consolidated annual accounts or in any other financial-administrative sense, only one of the parties shall be allowed to respond to this Announcement.

2. Under no circumstance shall Vattenfall be liable for any costs or expenses, incurred by the responding party in connection with the Respondents Application or any resulting tendering procedure.

3. Vattenfall reserves the right to suspend or terminate this tendering process either entirely or parts thereof, either temporarily or definitively. In addition, Vattenfall has no obligation to enter into any agreement. Specifically, Vattenfall reserves the right to exclude transport and installation from the wind turbine supply agreement.

4. By participating in this tender, the Respondent declares that he unconditionally agrees with the content of this PQQ.

5. Confidentiality to be observed by the Respondent

By participating in the tender, the Respondent undertakes to keep all information that he receives from the Contracting Entity – insofar as such is not available in the public domain – and all information they either submit to the Contracting Entity or otherwise produce in the context of the tender, as confidential and not to disclose such information to third parties.

Respondent may provide his employees or contractors who are involved in the tender with such information provided the confidentiality clause is imposed upon them. This obligation does not apply if the contrary expressly appears from this PQQ or Invitation to Tender or other official communication from the Contracting Entity.

6. Confidentiality to be observed by the Contracting Entity:

The Contracting Entity shall not reveal the confidential information supplied by a Respondent at his own initiative to other Respondents without the express consent of the respondent in question. By participating in the tender, possible intellectual property rights to which the Respondent is entitled do not pass to the Contracting Entity, unless otherwise agreed.

7. The Contracting Entity is authorized to verify the references given, including by requesting Respondents that declarations made by employers of the quoted reference projects will be sent directly to the Contracting Entity, or by asking for audited statements. The Contracting Entity may also require the Respondents to supplement or clarify the certificates and documents submitted.

8. The Respondent is invited to ask questions regarding the Application before the application due date.

The Contracting Entity reserves the rights to terminate the tender process at any time or to adjust the above tendering process and timing schedule at any time during the tender process if circumstances so dictate.

The contract award shall be conditional upon approval by the Board of Directors of Vattenfall AB and is subject to existing permits under public law and to economically viable implementation of the services to be determined by the contracting entity

Please ask for an additional document that clarifies this Prequalification Questionnaire.