Offshore Geophysical Survey across the Main Site and along the Export Cable Routes

Codling Wind Park Ltd

The Codling Wind Park (CWP) is located off Codling Bank, 13 km from the east coast of Ireland between Greystones and Wicklow, in water depths between 7 and 30 meters LAT. The development is planned to incorporate an offshore substation(s), transmission infrastructure and individual wind turbine foundations and structures, and enables grid connection cables to the Irish coastline.
The purpose of the scope is to perform an offshore geophysical survey across the main site and along the export cable routes at Codling Offshore Windfarm that will include multibeam bathymetry, sonar imaging and seismic profiling.

Deadline
The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2020-11-03. The procurement was published on 2020-10-01.

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Procurement history
Date Document
2020-10-01 Contract notice
2021-01-05 Contract award notice
Contract notice (2020-10-01)
Contracting authority
Name and addresses
Name: Codling Wind Park Ltd
National registration number: 358470
Postal address: c/o Cooney Carey Consulting Ltd, The Courtyard, Carmanhall Road, Sandyford
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: D18 YD27
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Contact person: Yannick URI
Phone: +33 140902634 📞
E-mail: yannick.uri@edf-re.fr 📧
Region: Dublin 🏙️
URL: https://codlingwindpark.ie/ 🌏
Address of the buyer profile: https://pha.edf.com/ 🌏
Communication
Access to the procurement documents is restricted
Documents URL: https://pha.edf.com 🌏

Object
Scope of the procurement
Title:
“Offshore Geophysical Survey across the Main Site and along the Export Cable Routes”
Products/services: Geophysical consultancy services 📦
Short description:
“The Codling Wind Park (CWP) is located off Codling Bank, 13 km from the east coast of Ireland between Greystones and Wicklow, in water depths between 7 and...”    Show more
Information about lots
Tenders may be submitted for all lots
Maximum number of lots that may be awarded to one tenderer: 2
Scope of the procurement
The contracting authority reserves the right to award contracts combining the following lots or groups of lots:
“The contracting entity reserves the right to award contracts for Lots 1 and 2, with Lot 3 being cancelled. The contracting entity reserves the right to...”    Show more

1️⃣
Scope of the procurement
Title: Offshore Geophysical Survey across the Main Site
Title
Lot Identification Number: 1
Description
Additional products/services: Geophysical prospecting services 📦
Place of performance: Éire/Ireland 🏙️
Main site or place of performance: East coast of Ireland between Greystones and Wicklow.
Description of the procurement:
“Lot 1: Offshore geophysical survey across the main site Full geophysical survey, including multibeam bathymetry, side scan sonar, sub-bottom profiler and...”    Show more
Award criteria
Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
The time frame below is expressed in number of months.
Description
Duration: 12
Information about the limits on the number of candidates to be invited
Envisaged minimum number: 3
Maximum number: 6
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates:
“Please refer to the Selection Questionnaire documents available onto the EDF Global Procurement Portal (searching RFx_091217).”
Information about variants
Variants will be accepted
Information about options
Options
Description of options:
“Option 1: 3D UHR multichannel seismic survey for 1 area of size 3 km x 3 km Option 2: 3D UHR multichannel seismic survey for 2 areas of size 2 km x 2 km each.”

2️⃣
Scope of the procurement
Title: Offshore Geophysical Survey along Export Cable Routes
Title
Lot Identification Number: 2
Description
Description of the procurement:
“Lot 2: Offshore geophysical survey along export cable routes down to 6 m LAT. The smallest export cable corridor shows an approximative length of 15...”    Show more
Information about options
Description of options:
“Above mentioned Lot 2 route length is the minimum scope we would have to perform along the export cable corridor and the other routes are put as options of...”    Show more

3️⃣
Scope of the procurement
Title:
“Offshore Geophysical Survey across the Main Site and along Export Cable Routes (Lot 1 and Lot 2)”
Title
Lot Identification Number: 3
Description
Additional products/services: Geotechnical engineering services 📦
Description of the procurement:
“Lot 1: Offshore geophysical survey across the main site Full geophysical survey, including multibeam bathymetry, side scan sonar, sub-bottom profiler and...”    Show more
Information about options
Description of options:
“For Lot 1: Option 1: 3D UHR multichannel seismic survey for 1 area of size 3 km x 3 km Option 2: 3D UHR multichannel seismic survey for 2 areas of size 2 km...”    Show more

Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
List and brief description of conditions:
“Mandatory and discretionary grounds for exclusion apply. See Selection Questionnaire (SQ) documents for further details available onto EDF Global...”    Show more
Economic and financial standing
List and brief description of selection criteria:
“The criteria for assessing economic and financial standing are stated in the Selection Documents (SQ) documents available onto EDF Global Procurement Portal...”    Show more
Conditions for participation

“Minimum requirements in relation to turnover, financial rating, availability of parent company guarantees/performance bonds and insurance are also specified...”    Show more
Technical and professional ability
List and brief description of selection criteria:
“The criteria for assessing technical and professional ability are stated in the Selection Documents (SQ) documents onto EDF Global Procurement Portal...”    Show more
Conditions for participation
Conditions for participation (technical and professional ability):
“Minimum requirements in relation to experience, technical requirements, health and safety, quality and environmental management are specified therein.”
List and brief description of rules and criteria:
“The proposal must be submitted in the general information, Instructions and Qualification and Technical envelops through the EDF Global Procurement Portal...”    Show more
Deposits and guarantees required:
“Will be stated in tender documents however, the Contracting Entity reserves the right to demand: — a parent company guarantee Where the candidate (and any...”    Show more
Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
“A group of economic operators is not required to convert into a specific legal form in order to make a SQ Response, but it may be required to do so prior to...”    Show more
Conditions related to the contract
Contract performance conditions: Contractual conditions will be provided to selected applicants at tender stage.

Procedure
Type of procedure
Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
Information about reduction of the number of solutions or tenders during negotiation or dialogue
Recourse to staged procedure to gradually reduce the number of solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiated
Administrative information
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 2020-11-03 12:00 📅
Estimated date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates: 2020-12-01 📅
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
The time frame below is expressed in number of months.
Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender: 12

Complementary information
Review body
Name: Tribunal Central Office of the High Court
Postal address: Four Courts Ground Floor (East Wing) Inns Quay
Postal town: Dublin 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 18886000/6863/6504 📞
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie 📧
Fax: +353 18886125 📠
Review procedure
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:
“Interested parties are referred to Statutory Instrument 131 of 2010, European Communities (Award of Contracts by Utility Undertaking) (Review Procedures)...”    Show more
Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Name: Tribunal Central Office of the High Court
Postal address: Four Courts Ground Floor (East Wing) Inns Quay
Postal town: Dublin 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 18886000/6863/6504 📞
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie 📧
Fax: +353 18886125 📠
Source: OJS 2020/S 194-470300 (2020-10-01)
Contract award notice (2021-01-05)
Contracting authority
Name and addresses
Postal address: c/o Cooney Carey Consulting Ltd, the Courtyard, Carmanhall Road, Sandyford

Object
Scope of the procurement
Title:
“Offshore Geophysical Survey Across the Main Site and Along the Export Cable Routes”
Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots
Description
Description of the procurement:
“Lot 1: Offshore geophysical survey across the main site Full geophysical survey, including multibeam bathymetry, side scan sonar, sub-bottom profiler and...”    Show more
Information about options
Description of options:
“Option 1: 3D UHR multichannel seismic survey for 1 area of size 3 km x 3 km. Option 2: 3D UHR multichannel seismic survey for 2 areas of size 2 km x 2 km each.”
Scope of the procurement
Title: Offshore Geophysical Survey Along Export Cable Routes
Description
Description of the procurement:
“Lot 2: Offshore geophysical survey along export cable routes down to 6 m LAT. The smallest export cable corridor shows an approximative length of 15...”    Show more
Information about options
Description of options:
“Above-mentioned lot 2 route length is the minimum scope we would have to perform along the export cable corridor and the other routes are put as options of...”    Show more
Scope of the procurement
Title:
“Offshore Geophysical Survey Across the Main Site AND Along Export Cable Routes (Lot 1 and Lot 2)”
Description
Description of the procurement:
“Lot 1: Offshore geophysical survey across the main site Full geophysical survey, including multibeam bathymetry, side scan sonar, sub-bottom profiler and...”    Show more
Information about options
Description of options:
“For lot 1: Option 1: 3D UHR multichannel seismic survey for 1 area of size 3 km x 3 km; Option 2: 3D UHR multichannel seismic survey for 2 areas of size 2km...”    Show more

Procedure
Award of a contract without prior publication of a call for competition in the Official Journal of the European Union in the cases listed below
The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
Type of procedure
Award of a contract without prior publication of a call for competition in the Official Journal of the European Union (explanation):
“Codling Wind Park is not caught by the European Union (Award of Contracts by Utility Undertakings) Regulations 2016 (‘the Regulations’) and it intends to...”    Show more
Administrative information
Previous publication concerning this procedure: 2020/S 194-470300
Information about termination of call for competition in the form of a prior information notice
The contracting authority will not award any further contracts based on the above prior information notice

Award of contract

1️⃣
Contract Number: 1
Lot Identification Number: 1
Title: Offshore Geophysical Survey Across the Main Site
Information on non-award
Other reasons (discontinuation of procedure)

2️⃣
Contract Number: 2
Lot Identification Number: 2
Title: Offshore Geophysical Survey Along Export Cable Routes

3️⃣
Contract Number: 3
Lot Identification Number: 3
Title:
“Offshore Geophysical Survey across the Main Site and Along Export Cable Routes (Lot 1 and Lot 2)”

Complementary information
Review procedure
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:
“Interested parties are referred to Statutory Instrument 131 of 2010, European Communities (Award of Contracts by Utility Undertaking) (Review Procedures)...”    Show more
Source: OJS 2021/S 005-008371 (2021-01-05)