Published date: 30 November 2020

Last edited date: 24 February 2021

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: 5 February 2021, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Electricity distribution and related services - 65300000

Location of contract

East of England, Scotland

Value of contract

£1,325,000,000

Procurement reference

tender_257529/905977

Published date

30 November 2020

Closing date

5 February 2021

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

6 April 2022

Contract end date

5 April 2047

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 two offshore transmission licences to successful bidders to connect three offshore wind farms to the GB onshore grid.
TR7 consists of Triton Knoll Offshore Wind Farm and Moray East 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
  • Tender notice
  • If you are interested in participating in TR7 please register your interest at the following link (after creating a user account you will be able to access the tender documentation):

Additional text

TR7 consists of Triton Knoll Offshore Wind Farm and Moray East 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 two offshore transmission licences to successful bidders for the purpose of connecting two wind farms to the GB onshore grid.
TR7 consists of two projects. A transmission licence is expected to be granted for each project. High level details about the projects are as follows:

Project: Triton Knoll Offshore Wind Farm; Developer: RWE Renewables, J-Power and Kansai; Limited Capacity (MW): 857; Location: Within the Greater Wash, approximately 20 miles off the coast of Lincolnshire and 28 miles from the coast of north Norfolk

Project: Moray East Offshore Wind Farm; Developer: Diamond Green Limited, Moray Offshore Renewable Power Limited, Delphis Holdings Limited and China Three Gorges Limited; Limited Capacity (MW): 900; Location: Approximately 22km off the Caithness coastline in Northern Scotland

Requests to participate/EPQ submissions must be made electronically by 12:00 (local time), 05/02/2021 See the above links for how to do this.

Please note that the information contained in the fields 'contract start date', 'Contract end date' and '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