Transport and installation of an Offshore Substation for Borkum Riffgrund 02, offshore wind farm

Yderligere oplysninger

Additional information to section I.1).

The Contract will be signed with DONG Energy Borkum Riffgrund II GmbH (Amtsgericht Hamburg Reg. no. HRB 121580) or DONG Energy Wind Power A/S (CVR no. 31849292) or a company wholly owned or controlled by DONG Energy Wind Power Holding A/S (CVR no. 18936673) or another entity directly or indirectly owned or controlled by DONG Energy Wind Power Holding A/S or jointly controlled by DONG Energy Wind Power Holding A/S or DONG Energy Wind Power A/S A/S or other entities directly or indirectly owned or controlled by a DONG Energy entity and a third party as the Contracting Entity.

Transfer.

The Contracting Entity shall be entitled to assign at any time the Contract (including all rights and obligations thereunder) in whole or in part to:

I. a person or persons developing, building, constructing, owning; or planning to develop, construct and operate, or own wind farm(s) in the Danish North Sea, the Danish Baltic Sea or the German Bight;

II. a person or persons which are to provide services in connection with the development, construction and operation of wind farm(s) in the Danish North Sea, the Danish Baltic Sea or the German Bight including without limitation development and construction services; or;

III. a person or persons which are to provide services in connection with the operation of wind farms in the Danish North Sea, the Baltic Sea or the German Bight including without limitation operation and maintenance services.

References to a “person” or “persons” above shall be construed so as to include any individual, firm or company or any joint venture, association or partnership (whether or not having separate legal personality).

Any such person or persons mentioned under (I) — (III) will be wholly owned or controlled by DONG Energy Wind Power Holding A/S or DONG Energy Wind Power A/S or other entities directly or indirectly owned or controlled by DONG Energy A/S or jointly controlled by DONG Energy Wind Power Holding A/S or DONG Energy Wind Power A/S or other entities directly or indirectly owned or controlled by DONG Energy A/S and a third party/third parties.

Additional information to section II.1.5):

Transport and installation:

The Work involves all activities required to complete the transport and installation of the Offshore Substation at the Borkum Riffgrund 2 Offshore Wind Farm, incl. one (1) jacket substructure, four (4) tubular piles (LOT 1) and one (1) topside (LOT2) — (the "Installation Items").

The transport and installation operations should be carried out without accidents or incidents while executed on time and within budget.

The Installation Items shall be delivered by the Contracting Entity at a barge hand-over location (normally the quayside of the yard where the Installation Items have been fabricated) on board of a suitable transport barge (which will be a part of the contractor who fabricates the Installation Items' supply).

Transport commencement for the Offshore Substation:

Transport of the transport barge loaded with the Installation Items from the handover location of the barge to the offshore site will commence upon issuing of a certificate of approval for sail-away by the marine warranty surveyor hired by the Contracting Entity.

The transport will also include the redelivery of the transport barge once the installation activities have been completed.

The installation window will be presented in a programme in the tender documents and is the period that includes the earliest start and latest completion for the transport and installation of the Installation Items.

Other services required:

All management, coordination, engineering, supply and operation of equipment, marine vessels (ref transportation above) and all personnel necessary to carry out the transport and installation of the Installation Items.

The estimated dimensions of the Installation Items are as follows:

Jacket (incl. cellar deck):

— Expected weight: 2 000 tonnes;

— Length: 37 metres (Footprint center piles);

— Width: 37 metres (Footprint center piles);

— Height: 54 metres.

Piles:

— Expected weight: 800 tonnes total;

— No of piles: 4 piles;

— Length: 60 metres;

— Diameter: 96".

Topside (including helideck):

— Expected weight: 2 250 tonnes;

— Length: 62 metres;

— Width: 31 metres;

— Height: 21 metres.

Water depth:

— The water depth at the offshore installation site is approximately 27 meters.

The above-mentioned dimensions and weights of the Installation Items are all estimates. Further details will be provided in the tender documents.

The contract for transport and installation of the offshore substation will be subject to a final investment decision (FID) which is anticipated in July 2016.

The anticipated and overall time schedule of the Work is:

Expected contract signing February 2016.

Transportation and installation of Jacket (jacket and piles) on the Offshore Substation — Lot 1 1.7.2017 — 1.10.2017.

Transportation and installation of the Topside on the Offshore Substation — Lot 2 15.3.2018 — 1.5.2018

Expected windows to be narrowed down at contract award.

Please note that the time schedule for Lot 1 and Lot 2 is the present base case and may be changed during the tender process including by requiring the transport and installation of both the Jacket and Topside in one campaign in 2018.

The Contracting Entity reserves the right to change the above expected schedule before Contract Award.

Addition information to section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information:

If the Applicant relies on the capacity of other entities:

The Applicant shall prove that the necessary resources will be available to it by way of an undertaking from these entities according to the Directive 2004/17/EC, article 54, sub-section 6.

Documentation for availability of other entities can be a copy of a signed agreement stating that if the Applicant is awarded with the Contract, this entity will provide for the specific necessary resources needed.

The information requested above must be forwarded in relation to such other entity to the extent this is relevant taking into account the expected responsibilities of such entity in the delivery of the Works.

If the Applicant wishes to improve its economic and financial assessment by submitting a Letter of Support, an authorized signatory from the supporting legal entity will have to sign the attached Letter of Support (Annex B). If a Letter of Support is submitted the assessment of the economic and financial standing of the Applicant will be based on the information about both entities. In such case the annual accounts of the supporting legal entity for the previous 2 years should be submitted.

If the Applicant is part of a profit sharing agreement with another legal entity, cf. for example Germany's Ergebnisabführungsvertrag or the Dutch Civil Code article 2:403 (a “403 statement”) or equivalent legal arrangement, the evaluation of the Applicant's financial standing will be based on the financial information from the financially strongest entity participating in the arrangement. If the Applicant is part of a profit sharing agreement the annual accounts of the other legal entity in the profit sharing agreement for the previous 2 years should be submitted. The Applicant is encouraged to explicitly mention the profit sharing agreement in its application.

If a consortium applies for prequalification, the information above must be submitted for each member of the consortium.

If a joint venture applies for prequalification, the information above must be submitted for the joint venture as such. If this is not possible, the information above must be submitted for each participant in the joint venture together with a statement from each joint venture participant that the financial and economic capacity of the participant is made available in a binding manner to the joint venture.

The contractor who is awarded the Contract and it's parent company, if any, may be requested to deliver updated accounts during the duration of the Contract.

Additional information to section IV: Procedure.

Five (5) Applicants are expected to be pre-qualified for the tender procedure.

If the number of Applicants applying for prequalification exceeds five (5), and these five (5) Applicants fullfill all minimum requirements, the Contracting Entity will perform the selection on basis of an assessment of each Applicants respective economic and financial standing as well as technical ability including HSE and AQ/QC performance.

The assessment regarding the Applicants technical ability, including HSE and QA/QC performance, will be based on the information entailed in the documentation requested:

Section III.2.3) — subsection 2: In general the more redundant capacity in the performance of the Works by the Applicant the better.

Section III.2.3) — sub-section 3: In general the less limitations the better. The more detailed and the clearer the description the better.

Section III.2.3) — sub-section 5: The more references and similarity to section 1.2 and 1.3 (Notice for Prequalification — Additional information to section II.1.5) will be considered positive.

Section III.2.3) — sub-section 6: The more appropriate the Health and Safety Policy as described in sub-section the better.

The assessment regarding the Applicants economic and financial standing will be based on the information entailed in the documentation requested under Section III.2.2) especially the solvency ratio, the order amount-to-equity ratio and the EBIT margin.

Other Additional Information:

The Contracting Entity, or those entities to which the Contract may be transferred, shall be entitled to make use of any design related to the tender and the Contract.

The Applicant:

Please note that only a pre-qualified Applicant can submit a tender for the Contract.

It is not possible to submit a tender by example a sister company or another company within the pre-qualified Applicant's group. Further, it is not possible to change the members of a consortium with companies that were not prequalified.

If the Contract is awarded to a consortium, the members of the consortium shall accept joint and several liability and appoint a common authorised representative.

The Applicant is advised that the tender documents will include provisions relating to the execution of the Contract by the Contracting Entity and will be conditional upon:

a) The Contracting Entity having obtained a positive final investment decision.

b) The Contracting Entity having received any and all necessary approvals and licences for construction of the Borkum Rifgrund 2 Offshore Wind Farm (BKR02).

Request to participate:

Request to participate and the requested documentation as set out in this Notice must be forwarded in one (1) hard copy including an electronic copy on a USB-storage unit, memory-stick or similar to:

DONG Energy Wind Power A/S.

Nesa Allé 1.

2920 Gentofte.

Denmark.

Att.: Ulrik Bang-Olsen (XULBO).

All documentation must be received by the Contracting Entity no later than 26.5.2015, 14:00 (GMT +1).

The Contracting Entity requires the Applicant to sign a non-disclosure agreement and submit it together with the request for prequalification. The Contracting Entity will subsequently counter sign it if the Applicant is prequalified as tenderer.

Please note that the Tender Documents will only be made available if the Contracting Entity has received a signed Non-disclosure Agreement from the Applicant. Further, the time between notification about prequalification and the date by which the tender documents are made available to the tenderers is expected to be very short.

All communication regarding this tender procedure will be in English and in writing.

The Contracting Entity reserves the right — subject to principles of equal treatment and transparency - to request a Applicant to submit missing or insufficient information according to section III.2.1), III.2.2) and III 2.3) or, if applicable, to use information already in the Contracting Entity's possession; or to obtain such information provided it is publicly available. However, the Contracting Entity is not obliged to do so.

Notice for prequalification, incl. annexes/forms issued by the Contracting Entity, may be requested by the Contact Point, cf. section I.1).

By requesting the Notice for prequalification, incl. annexes/forms, the Contracting Entity will forward any questions asked regarding this Notice to you. In case there are any questions to this Notice, the Applicant can write to the Contact Point, cf. I.1), and the Contracting Entity will in an anonymised way forward all questions and answers to all Applicants that have shown interest. The Contracting Entity will answer all questions submitted earlier than six days prior to the deadline.

The Contracting Entity will not reimburse or provide any compensation to the Applicants for any costs incurred during the participation in this prequalification procedure and/or the following tender procedure.

The laws of Denmark govern this tender procedure including the prequalification notice and any schedules, annexes and appendices to this document, unless stated otherwise in the documents, and any legal dispute arising out of or relating to the tender procedure.

Any dispute arising out of or in connection with the tender procedure and/or prequalification notice including schedules, annexes and appendices shall be decided by the City Court of Lyngby should the Complaints Board for Public Procurements not have jurisdiction to treat the matter.

Egnethed til at udøve det erhverv

In order to be prequalified to participate in this tender, the Applicant shall submit a solemn declaration that confirms the Applicant is not in one of the situations mentioned in article 54(4) of Directive 2004/17/EC. Form is available in annex to Notice for prequalification, which is to be requested by the Contact Point, cf. section I.1.

Den juridiske form, som den sammenslutning af økonomiske aktører, der skal have kontrakten, skal have

There is no requirements as to the legal form of the group of economic operators, but if more economic operators are submitting am joint application for prequalification, and in case of invitation to tender, a joint tender (e.g. as a consortium), a responsible economic operator representing all the economic operators must be appointed. Furthermore all economic operators must be jointly and severally liable for the fulfilment of the contract.