Official UK procurement notice
Shawfair Energy Centre & District Heating Network
Authority: Midlothian Energy Limited (MEL)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionMEL is seeking to procure a suitably experienced company to lead the successful design and construction of a heat network for the Shawfair area in Midlothian, Scotland. The heat network development will consist of a connection to a local Energy from Waste Plant, the construction of an Energy Centre complete with back-up boiler plant, District Heating Networks (DHN) and heat substations.
CPV: Civil engineering consultancy services · Construction work · Construction works for power plants and heating plants · Distance-heating pipes · District heating · District heating boiler · District-heating mains construction work · District-heating plant construction work · Electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy · Energy and related services · Energy meters · Heating engineering services for buildings · +1 more
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Shawfair is a new mix use residential and commercial development in Midlothian, ScotlandPublished value£20,000,000
Shawfair is a new mix use residential and commercial development in Midlothian, Scotland. A local Energy from Waste plant (EfW) has heat of up to 95°C available as a by-product of its operations for the development area.
This project aims to connect the EfW waste heat to the development and to create a sustainable District Heating Network for the wider Midlothian area.
The heat is to be transported from the EfW to an Energy Centre (EC), from where the heat disperses into a District Heating Network (DHN). The capacity of the DHN will be about 16.5MW. The DHN will connect to both residential units and mixed use space including office, retail and community space.
When heat from the EfW is not available, it must be created at the EC. The EC will be fitted with boilers, thermal stores and other general equipment required for DHN operation, such as pressure keeping, and water quality control. It will also house the control system of the entire network.
Steel based district heating pipes will form the primary network that feeds the warm water to Heat Substations, where the water is hydraulically separated from secondary networks. The Secondary Off Plot networks will be polymer based district heating networks that transport warm water to the boundary of development plots.
NOTE : All Secondary On Plot DHN Networks are for the plot developer to coordinate the connection to all dwellings including the interfaces with the dwellings. This does not form part of this scope.
The build programme for the works included in this contract notice will be approximately 24 months.
The project is new build.
It is anticipated that the contract scope shall include (but is not limited to) design and build of:
- Pipework and connections to EfW heat offtake system
- Energy Centre
- Electrical installation, instrumentation and controls
- Primary DHN Spine
- Initial Heat Sub Stations across wider plot development area
- Initial Off Plot Secondary district heating pipework
The contract will contain options for MEL to instruct the successful contractor to price and carry out the design and build of network extensions to new customers beyond the initial scope listed.
MEL reserves the right to benchmark the price of any additional works under a separate contract notice and potentially award those works to others.
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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).
- Economic & financial standing
Minimum Turnover
Dun & Bradstreet Ratios
Insurance
Minimum: Bidders will be required to have a yearly turnover of a minimum of 40m GBP for each of the last 3 years, and provide 3 year’s audited financial statements Where, for any valid reason, the bidder does not have 3 year’s audited financial statements available, MEL may accept other f…
- Legal form for consortia
- The company is willing to accept responses from single operators or operators acting in a consortium (whether or not the consortium form a special purpose vehicle). Where multiple operators are forming a consortium to submit a tender response, responses to the PQQ must: 1. include technical, professional and financial information for each member of any consortium; 2. explain the legal form any operators acting as a consortium intend to take; and 3. include for joint and several liability between the consortium members and demonstrate sufficient financial security in relation to the group’s response.
- Shortlisting
- Please see Qualification Questionnaire which is part of the tender documents available as noted at I.3.
- Successive reduction
- Candidates will be reduced successively across stages
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
- Works
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 29 Oct 2021, 09:04 BST
- Last source update
- 29 Oct 2021, 09:04 BST
- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-027142- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02ef30Find a Tender- Contract terms summary
To be confirmed at invitation to negotiate stage.
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
- Performance terms
To be confirmed in the contract documents to be issued at invitation to negotiate stage
Publisher note: All dates, timescales and values set out in this notice are estimates only and so subject to change during the tender process, if required. The date and time for tender submission will be confirmed in the invitation to negotiate. The tender evaluation methodology will be published as part of the invitation to negotiate. Under the terms of this contract the successful supplier(s) will be required to deliver community benefits in support of the MEL’s economic and social objectives. Accordingly, contract performance conditions may relate in particular to social and environmental considerations. The community benefits included in this contract will be detailed within the invitation to negotiate. NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=668671. A sub-contract clause has been included in this contract. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2363 Community benefits are included in this requirement. For more information see: https://www.gov.scot/policies/public-sector-procurement/community-benefits-in-procurement/ A summary of the expected community benefits has been provided as follows: Details of the community benefit requirements will be included in the procurement documents. (SC Ref:668671)
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 29 Nov 2021, 15:00 GMT
- Submission channel
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- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 360 days from the deadline
- Deposits and guarantees
As per question 6.4 in the Qualification Questionnaire. Guarantee values are to be confirmed at invitation to negotiate stage
Timeline
29 Oct 2021 → 25 Feb 2022 · 3 dates- Notice published29 Oct 2021, 09:04 BST
- Submission deadline29 Nov 2021, 15:00 GMT
- Invitations to tender expected25 Feb 2022
Notice history
1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender- Deadline moved to 29 Nov 2021, 15:00 GMT29 Oct 2021, 09:04 BST+7 days · was 22 Nov 2021, 15:00 GMT
Published amendments (1 · 1 deadline change)
| When | What | Before | After | Shift |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | DeadlineTime limit · IV.2.2 | 22 Nov 2021 | 29 Nov 2021 | +7 d |
Due to the clarifications to the contract notice
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Edinburgh Sheriff CourtReview body
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Technical selection criteria