Offshore Geotechnical 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.
Geotechnical survey across the main site and along the export cable routes at Codling Offshore Windfarm that will include geotechnical boreholes with samplings and in-situ testings, seabed CPTs, seismic seabed CPTs, grab sampling and vibrocores.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2020-10-15. The procurement was published on 2020-09-11.

Who? What? Where?
Procurement history
Date Document
2020-09-11 Contract notice
2020-09-16 Contract award notice
Contract notice (2020-09-11)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Geotechnical engineering 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 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. Geotechnical survey across the main site and along the export cable routes at Codling Offshore Windfarm that will include geotechnical boreholes with samplings and in-situ testings, seabed CPTs, seismic seabed CPTs, grab sampling and vibrocores.
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Notice metadata
Original language: English 🗣️
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Services
Regulation: European Union, with participation of GPA countries
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Geotechnical engineering services 📦
Additional CPV: Geotechnical engineering services 📦
Place of performance
NUTS region: Éire/Ireland 🏙️

Procedure
Procedure type: Negotiated procedure
Type of bid: Submission for all lots
Award criteria
The most economic tender

Contracting authority
Identity
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Awarding authority type: Utilities entity
Awarding authority name: Codling Wind Park Ltd
Postal address: c/o Cooney Carey Consulting Ltd, The Courtyard, Carmanhall Road, Sandyford
Postal code: D18 YD27
Postal town: Dublin
Contact
Internet address: https://codlingwindpark.ie/ 🌏
E-mail: yannick.uri@edf-re.fr 📧
Phone: +33 140902634 📞
URL for documents: https://pha.edf.com 🌏

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2020-09-11 📅
Submission deadline: 2020-10-15 📅
Publication date: 2020-09-16 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2020/S 180-435595
OJ-S issue: 180

Object
Scope of the procurement
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 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.
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The purpose of the scope is to perform an offshore.
Geotechnical survey across the main site and along the export cable routes at Codling Offshore Windfarm that will include geotechnical boreholes with samplings and in-situ testings, seabed CPTs, seismic seabed CPTs, grab sampling and vibrocores.
Maximum number of lots per tenderer: 2
Information about lots:
The contracting entity reserves the right to award…
… contracts for lots 1 and 2, with lot 3 being cancelled.
… a contract for lot 3, with lots 1 and 2 being cancelled.
Title of the lot: Offshore Geotechnical Survey across the Main Site
Lot number: 1
Short description:
Lot 1: Offshore geotechnical boreholes across the main site geotechnical boreholes with samplings, CPT testing, HPD and downhole geophysical logging approximate boreholes number: 15
target depth between 40 to 80 m below seabed.
Duration: 12 months
Title of the lot: Offshore Geotechnical Investigation by Seabed Means on Main Site and Along Export Cable Routes
Lot number: 2
Short description:
Lot 2: Offshore geotechnical investigation by seabed means survey on main site and along cable export cable routes.
Offshore geotechnical investigation by seabed means will include approximately: 20 seabed CPT (from 3 up to 35 m target penetration), 6 Seabed SCPT (seismic CPT), 15 vibrocores and grab sampling
— option 1: additional seabed CPTs;
— option 2: seismic imaging survey for boulder detection.
Description of options:
— option 1: additional seabed CPTs
10 additional seabed CPTs could be requested.
— option 2: Seismic imaging survey for boulder detection.
Detection by geophysical mean of potential sub-soil boulder in foundation interest area. Trial with contractor proposed solution on approximately 6 locations with borehole (BH done in firm scope).
As a variant, alternate geophysical solution can be proposed.
Title of the lot: Offshore Geotechnical Survey across the Main Site and Along the Export Cable Routes (Lot 1 and 2)
Lot number: 3
Short description:
— lot 1: Offshore geotechnical boreholes across the main site.
Geotechnical boreholes with samplings, CPT testing, HPD and downhole geophysical logging.
Approximate boreholes number: 15
Target depth between 40 to 80 m below seabed and
— lot 2: Offshore geotechnical investigation by seabed means survey on main site and along cable export cable routes.
Offshore geotechnical investigation by seabed means will include approximately: 20 seabed CPT (from 3 up to 35 m target penetration), 6 seabed SCPT (seismic CPT), 15 vibrocores and grab sampling.
Option 1: additional seabed CPTs;
Option 2: Seismic imaging survey for boulder detection.
Description of options:
— option 1: additional seabed CPTs.
— option 2: seismic imaging survey for boulder detection
Place of performance
Main site or place of performance: East coast of Ireland between Greystones and Wicklow.

Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
Suitability to pursue the professional activity:
Mandatory and discretionary grounds for exclusion apply. See selection questionnaire (SQ) documents for further details available onto EDF Global Procurement Portal (searching RFx_090567).
Economic and financial standing:
The criteria for assessing economic and financial standing are stated in the selection documents (SQ) documents available onto EDF Global Procurement Portal (searching RFx_090567).
Minimum level(s) of standards:
Minimum requirements in relation to turnover, financial rating, availability of parent company guarantees/performance bonds and insurance are also specified in SQ documents.
Technical and professional ability:
The criteria for assessing technical and professional ability are stated in the selection documents (SQ) documents.
The required documents shall be in English have to be provided by each candidate individually, or of applicable, by each member of the consortium or the declared subcontractors.
Minimum level(s) of standards:
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 from Ivalua of which link is indicated in section I.3).
In order to participate to this ‘RFI’ on Ivalua portal, you have to sin in as ‘supplier’ creating your account:
— go to: https://pha.edf.com;
— click on: ‘New Supplier‘ and follow instructions;
— indicate to the contact person of this contract notice your registration on the portal (commercial and technical);
— when entering the portal, select RFx_090567 OFF - CWP - Offshore Geotechnical survey across the main site and along the export cable routes.
From there, you are ready to participate, answering the questions.
Contract execution
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 Group member, where Candidate is a Group) and any third party whose resources will be relied upon, has a parent company, the availability of parent company guarantee (PCG).:
— a Performance Guarantee provided by a bank or an insurance company.
A performance bond to cover 10 % of the contract value during the term of the contract reducing to 5 % during the defects liability period set out in the contract.
— an Advance payment bond Guarantee up to 20 % of contract value.
Explanations also available in SQ documents onto EDF Global Procurement Portal.
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 entering into a contract with the contracting entity to the extent that this is necessary for the satisfactory performance of the contract. The contracting Entity reserves the right, amongst other solutions, to require that the contract be entered into with each member of the group on the basis of joint and several liability or to contract with one member of the group as prime contractor to whom the other members will be sub-contractors.
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Procedure
Legal basis: 32014L0025
Minimum number of candidates: 3
Maximum number of candidates: 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_090567).
Time of receipt of tenders: 12:00
Date of dispatch of invitations: 2020-11-12 📅
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Tender validity period: 12 months

Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: 358470
Contact
Contact point: Yannick URI
Address of the buyer profile: https://pha.edf.com/ 🌏
Documents URL: https://pha.edf.com 🌏

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 📠
Information about review deadlines:
Interested parties are referred to Statutory Instrument 131 of 2010, European Communities (Award of Contracts by Utility Undertaking) (Review Procedures) Regulations 2010, and in particular Regulation 7 and 10(2).
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:
According to Utility Remedies Regulation 2010 of the Irish State, any economic operator can take legal action through:
— pre-contractual proceedings: until the contract signature;
— contractual proceedings: until 1 month after the contract award notice is published or 6 months after the conclusion of the relevant contract.
Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Postal address: Four Courts Ground Floor (East Wing) Inns Quay Dublin
Source: OJS 2020/S 180-435595 (2020-09-11)
Contract award notice (2020-09-16)
Object
Scope of the procurement
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 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 geotechnical survey across the main site and along the export cable routes at Codling Offshore Windfarm that will include geotechnical boreholes with samplings and in-situ testings, seabed CPTs, seismic seabed CPTs, grab sampling and vibrocores.
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Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice

Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable
Award criteria
Lowest price

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2020-09-16 📅
Publication date: 2020-09-21 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2020/S 183-442976
Refers to notice: 2020/S 180-435595
OJ-S issue: 183
Additional information
This notice is cancelled to add an additional day to send applications. Another contract notice (with the right submission date) has been published for the same project.

Object
Scope of the procurement
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 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.
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The purpose of the scope is to perform an offshore geotechnical survey across the main site and along the export cable routes at Codling Offshore Windfarm that will include geotechnical boreholes with samplings and in-situ testings, seabed CPTs, seismic seabed CPTs, grab sampling and vibrocores.
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Title of the lot: Offshore Geotechnical Survey Across the Main Site
Short description:
Lot 1: Offshore geotechnical boreholes across the main site
Geotechnical boreholes with samplings, CPT testing, HPD and downhole geophysical logging
Target depth between 40 to 80 m below seabed.
Lot 2: Offshore geotechnical investigation by seabed means survey on main site and along cable export cable routes
— Option 1: additional seabed CPTs;
— Option 2: Seismic imaging survey for boulder detection.
Description of options:
— Option 1: additional seabed CPTs.
— Option 2: Seismic imaging survey for boulder detection.
Detection by geophysical mean of potential sub-soil boulder in foundation interest area. Trial with contractor proposed solution on approximately six locations with borehole (BH done in firm scope).
Title of the lot: Offshore Geotechnical Survey Across the Main Site AND along the Export Cable Routes (Lot 1 and 2)
Short description:
— Lot 1: Offshore geotechnical boreholes across the main site
Target depth between 40 to 80 m below seabed
And
— Lot 2: Offshore geotechnical investigation by seabed means survey on main site and along cable export cable routes
Description of options:
— Option 1: additional seabed CPTs
— Option 2: Seismic imaging survey for boulder detection
Detection by geophysical mean of potential subsoil boulder in foundation interest area. Trial with contractor proposed solution on approximately six locations with borehole (BH done in firm scope).

Reference
Additional information
This notice is cancelled to add an additional day to send applications.
Another contract notice (with the right submission date) has been published for the same project.

Complementary information
Review body
Postal address: Four Courts Ground Floor (East Wing), Inns Quay
Information about review deadlines:
Interested parties are referred to Statutory Instrument 131 of 2010, European Communities (Award of Contracts by Utility Undertaking) (Review Procedures) Regulations 2010 and in particular Regulation 7 and 10(2).
Source: OJS 2020/S 183-442976 (2020-09-16)
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