Official UK procurement notice
Corporate Power Purchase Agreement
Authority: THAMES WATER UTILITIES LIMITED
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionProvision of Electricity through Corporate Power Purchase Agreements
CPV: Electricity · Electricity supplies · Electricity supply installations · Electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy · Fuels · Generator units · Other sources of energy supplies and distribution · Wind farm · Wind turbines · Wind-power installation works · Windmills
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Thames Water Utilities Limited are looking to diversify its electricity portfolio…Published value£200,000,000
Thames Water Utilities Limited are looking to diversify its electricity portfolio through corporate Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs). The objective is to secure long-term price certainty while supporting decarbonisation targets through a competitive tender process.
Thames Water seeks to sign a long-term physical PPA with a wind or solar PV power generator. The primary target is to procure 100-150 GWh per annum of renewable energy through this tender, with the possibility of increasing the volume to 200 GWh per annum if commercially compelling offer(s) are received. Each contract should be a minimum of 20 GWh and a maximum of 150 GWh per annum. Thames Water is open to both newbuild and operational projects, provided that newbuild projects have, or will obtain, all necessary permits and consents. The company aims to start procuring volumes as soon as possible, preferring start dates within the next 18 months, but will consider projects with Commercial Operation Dates (CODs) before April 2026.
Thames Water seeks long-term price stability for its power supply and prefers a 5-year contract, although terms ranging 3 to 10 years will be considered.
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- Suitability
There are no requirements relating to professional activity
- Legal form for consortia
- Consortia may be required to form a legal entity prior to award
- Shortlisting
- As detailed in PQQ
- Successive reduction
- Candidates will be reduced successively across stages
- “Corporate Power Purchase Agreement” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0025 Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (Directive 2014/25/EU)
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 3 Jul 2024, 12:05 BST
- Last source update
- 3 Jul 2024, 12:05 BST
- Authority reference
TC2160- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-020253- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-047a1fFind a Tender- Contract terms summary
Specified in Invitation to Negotiate Document
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
- Review procedure
Thames Water Utilities Limited will incorporate a standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. The standstill period, which will be for a minimum of 10 calendar days, provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into.
The Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (SI 2016 No 274) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland).
Publisher note: All suppliers who wish to respond to this contract notice must request a pre-qualification questionnaire (PQQ) by using the web link in Section I.3 (www.thameswater.co.uk/procurement). From your response to the link in Section I.3 or above, Thames Water's Procurement Support Centre will send you an email providing login details for our eSourcing system (i.e. IASTA Smartsource). To complete the PQQ you will need to login to IASTA Smartsource. If the project requires it, you will receive an additional and separate survey to complete for Data Protection. Note - The client may be Thames Water Utilities Limited or another company within the Kemble Water group structure
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
- 18 Jul 2024, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
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- Accepted languages
- en
- Supplier levy on call-offs (max %)
- document
- Bid validity
- 180 days from the deadline
- Deposits and guarantees
- Bonds and/or parent company guarantees of performance and financial standing may be required
Timeline
3 Jul 2024 → 18 Jul 2024 · 2 dates- Notice published3 Jul 2024, 12:05 BST
- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown18 Jul 2024, 12:00 BST
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria