Published date: 26 January 2023

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 11 April 2023, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Operation of electrical installations - 65320000

Location of contract

Yorkshire and the Humber, Scotland

Value of contract

£2,000,000,000

Procurement reference

tender_345724/1163395

Published date

26 January 2023

Closing date

11 April 2023

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

11 July 2024

Contract end date

21 September 2049

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Competitive procedure with negotiation (above threshold)

Anyone may ask to participate, but only those who are pre-selected will be invited to submit initial tenders and to negotiate.

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

This concerns the proposed grant of three offshore transmission licences to successful bidders to connect three offshore wind farms to the GB onshore grid.

TR10 consists of Dogger Bank Offshore Wind Farm Phase 1, Moray West Offshore Wind Farm and Neart na Gaoithe Offshore Wind Farm (the Projects).

The tender process will consist of two stages for each Project: an Enhanced Pre-Qualification (EPQ) stage and an Invitation to Tender (ITT) stage, resulting in selection of preferred bidders.

Any bidder wishing to participate in the EPQ stage for any Project must express their interest as per the requirements in the EPQ documentation.

More information

Links

  • https://ofgem.bravosolution.co.uk/
  • If you are interested in participating in TR10 please register your interest at the following link (after creating a user account you will be able to access the tender documentation):

Additional text

TR10 consists of Dogger Bank A Wind Farm Phase 1, Moray West Offshore Wind Farm and Neart na Gaoithe Offshore Wind Farm (the Projects).

The tender process will consist of two stages for each of the Projects: an Enhanced Pre-Qualification (EPQ) stage followed by an Invitation to Tender (ITT) stage which will result in the selection of a preferred bidder.

Any bidder wishing to participate in the EPQ stage for any or all of the Projects must express interest in doing so in accordance with the requirements in the EPQ documentation.

The type of procedure to be adopted is a competitive procedure with negotiation. The subject matter of this notice is the proposed grant of three offshore transmission licences to successful bidders for the purpose of connecting three offshore wind farms to the GB onshore grid.

TR10 consists of three projects. A transmission licence is expected to be granted for each project. High level details about the projects are as follows:

Project: Dogger Bank A Offshore Wind Farm Phase 1;
Developer: SSE Renewables, Equinor and Vårgrønn;
Limited Capacity (MW): 1200;
Location: 131km from the North East coast of England.

Project: Neart na Gaoithe Offshore Wind Farm;
Developer: EDF Renewables UK and ESB;
Limited Capacity (MW): 450;
Location: 15.5km off the Fife coast of Scotland.

Project: Moray West Offshore Wind Farm;
Developer: Ocean Winds (a joint-venture between EDP Renewables and ENGIE) and Ignitis;
Limited Capacity (MW): 860;
Location: 65km north off the Aberdeenshire coast of Scotland.


Requests to participate/EPQ submissions must be made electronically by 12:00 (local time), 11/04/2023 See the above links for how to do this.

Please note that the information contained in the fields 'contract start date'; 'Contract end date', 'Lowest/actual value (£)' in section 1 of this notice are indicative only. Please consult the tender documentation for further details.

About the buyer

Address

10 South Colonnade
London
E14 4PU
England

Email

tendercoordinator@ofgem.gov.uk