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

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/pre-commercial-procurement-design-develop-and-demonstrate-wave-energy-converter-systems-eu-ocds-h6vhtk-02c2fc). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Lead Procurer: Wave Energy Scotland Limited: "Pre-Commercial Procurement: Design, develop, and demonstrate wave energy converter systems (EuropeWave PCP).". Published status: active. Framework Ceiling: €16,333,333. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 1 Oct 2021, 12:00 BST. Published submission portal: www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Lead Procurer: Wave Energy Scotland Limited](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/lead-procurer-wave-energy-scotland-limited-GB-FTS-21360)
- **Framework Ceiling (notional):** €16,333,333 (EUR)
- **Submission Deadline:** 1 October 2021 at 12:00 BST
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Design and execution of research and development, Engineering services, Research and experimental development services, Services related to the oil and gas industry
- **Delivery Location:** 1A
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Official Documents:** 1 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/pre-commercial-procurement-design-develop-and-demonstrate-wave-energy-converter-systems-eu-ocds-h6vhtk-02c2fc#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-02c2fc`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/pre-commercial-procurement-design-develop-and-demonstrate-wave-energy-converter-systems-eu-ocds-h6vhtk-02c2fc#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk](/out?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/pre-commercial-procurement-design-develop-and-demonstrate-wave-energy-converter-systems-eu-ocds-h6vhtk-02c2fc#participate

## Description
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.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 71300000, 73300000, 76000000
- **Delivery regions:** 1A

- **Description:** 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 comp...

- **Renewal published:** yes
- **Options published:** yes

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F015241-2021)
- **Last Source Update:** 2021-07-02T14:45:02.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-22T15:04:58.763Z
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