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Pre-Commercial Procurement: Design, develop, and demonstrate wave energy converter systems (EuropeWave PCP).

Design and execution of research and development
Engineering services
Research and experimental development services
+1 more
1A
Published value
€16,333,333
Submission deadline 1 Oct 2021, 12:00 BST
Lots published1
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Tenderline Synopsis: Lead Procurer: Wave Energy Scotland Limited: "Pre-Commercial Procurement: Design, develop, and demonstrate wave energy converter systems (EuropeWave PCP).". Published status: active. Published value: €16,333,333. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 1 Oct 2021, 12:00 BST. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityLead Procurer: Wave Energy Scotland LimitedScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
Closed
1 Oct 2021, 12:00 BST
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)€16,333,333
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Published history for Lead Procurer: Wave Energy Scotland Limited. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
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Coverage: 0 active published awards; 0 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityLead Procurer: Wave Energy Scotland Limited
Procedure methodNot published
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Statusactive
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Published2 Jul 2021, 15:45 BST
Last source update2 Jul 2021, 15:45 BST
Recurring procurementNo
ClassificationDesign and execution of research and development, Engineering services, Research and experimental development services, Services related to the oil and gas industry
Delivery area
1A
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-02c2fc
What is being bought
This contract notice invites interested operators to submit tenders for the EuropeWave pre-commercial procurement (PCP). The EuropeWave PCP aims to accelerate the design, development, and demonstration of cost-effective wave energy converter (WEC) systems to produce clean electricity, advance promising designs for wave energy converter systems to a point from which they are ready to proceed to a first of a kind commercial-scale design and testing programme and commercial exploitation through other national/regional programmes and/or private sector investment. The main technical challenges to be addressed may be expressed in terms of: - Performance – obtain quantitative evidence of power capture and conversion capability and increase confidence in yield predictions from simulations. - Survivability – demonstrate effective survival strategies. - Availability – demonstrate levels of availability through reliable prototype operation. - Affordability – increase confidence in estimations of the technology costs (capital and operational) and the requirements to achieve a LCOE which is competitive in the target market. The culmination of the EuropeWave PCP programme (Phase 3) will see prototypes, at substantial scale and with fully representative subsystems, deployed at the open-water facilities of the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Scotland and the Biscay Marine Energy Platform (BiMEP) in the Basque Country and operated for a minimum period to demonstrate device performance, reliability and cost. Physical model testing in earlier phases is expected to take place in Instituto de Hidráulica Ambiental de Cantabria (IHC) and FloWave Ocean Energy Research Facility (FloWave). This joint procurement exercise is being undertaken by Wave Energy Scotland in its role of lead procurer acting in the name and on behalf of the procurers of the EuropeWave buyers group: - Wave Energy Scotland, An Lochran, 10 Inverness Campus, Inverness, IV2 5NA, Scotland, UK (Company number SC493764); - Ente Vasco de la Energía, Alameda de Urquijo 36, 1, Bilbao 48011, Basque Country, Spain (Company number Q5150001E), NUTS code: ES2, https://www.eve.eus.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Published value updated to €16,333,333
    2 Jul 2021, 15:45 BST
  2. Status changed to active
    2 Jul 2021, 15:45 BST
  3. Official notice release published
    2 Jul 2021, 15:45 BST
  4. Submission deadline changed to 1 Oct 2021, 12:00 BST
    2 Jul 2021, 15:45 BST
  5. Buyer information updated
    2 Jul 2021, 15:45 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
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  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    active
    Published valueNot published
    This procurement takes the form of a pre-commercial procurement (PCP). In a PCP, R&D service contracts are awarded to several R&D service providers in parallel to progressively develop solutions in a phased approach. This allows the procurers to compare several design solutions in a competitive environment. The EuropeWave PCP combines the phased approach of the PCP model, a stage-gated industrial development process, and an international evaluation and guidance framework for ocean energy technology. Each selected operator will be awarded a framework agreement that covers up to three R&D phases: Phase 1: Concept development Phase 2: Design/modelling Phase 3: Open-sea deployment & testing programme After each phase, intermediate evaluations will be carried out to progressively select the best of the competing solutions. The contractors with the best-value-for-money solutions will be offered a call-off contract for the next phase, under the framework agreement. Phase 1 is expected to start in January 2022. Phase 3 is expected to start in September 2023 and conclude in May 2026. The selected operators will retain ownership of the intellectual property rights (IPRs) that they generate during the PCP and will be able to use them to exploit the full market potential of the developed solutions. This procurement receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, under grant agreement No 883751. The EU is not participating as a contracting authority in the procurement.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    2 Jul 2021, 15:45 BST
  2. Submission deadline
    1 Oct 2021, 12:00 BST
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Lead Procurer: Wave Energy Scotland Limited

Contracting authority GB-FTS-21360
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