Three Compressor Units for Compressor Station Wittenburg, Germany

Eignungskriterien

• Wirtschaftliche und finanzielle Leistungsfähigkeit

  • •WL1: Self-Declaration of the consolidated total revenue of the company for the last 3 (three) financial years. If a company has not been operating in the market for that long, it shall provide a business plan for the missing years, indicating the expected annual revenues.
  • •Minimum Requirement (Failure to meet will result in exclusion):
  • •The average annual revenue must be at least EUR 90 million (net) for each of the last 3 (three) completed financial years.
  • •WL2: Proof of Existing Professional or Business Liability Insurance or a comparable Market Standard Insurance
  • •- Proof of a currently existing professional or business liability insurance or a comparable market-standard insurance for personal, property and financial damages.
  • •- Proof of a currently existing product liability insurance or a comparable market-standard insurance for personal, property and financial damages.
  • •- Proof of a currently existing environmental liability insurance or a comparable market-standard insurance for personal, property and financial damages.
  • •The proofs may be submitted in photocopy/scan (PDF) but must be clearly legible. The proof must not be older than 6 months at the time of the expiry of the deadline for submitting the participation applications. One or more of the insurances may also be part of another of the mentioned insurances. The minimum liability coverage stated below must, in any case, apply to each of the aforementioned insurances.
  • •If any of the insurances (professional or business liability insurance, product liability insurance, environmental liability insurance) with these coverage amounts is not currently in place, it is sufficient for each of the aforementioned insurances to provide:
  • •1. A self-declaration from the applicant stating that they are willing to take issue the corresponding insurance at the first request of the contracting authority in the event of a contract award
  • •and
  • •2. The declaration of an insurance (in non-verified copy) stating that they are willing to conclude the corresponding insurance.
  • •Minimum Requirements (Failure to meet this will result in Exclusion):
  • •The liability coverage amounts for each of the aforementioned insurances (professional or business liability insurance, product liability insurance, environmental liability insurance) must be at least EUR 20,000,000.00 per insured event for personal, property, and financial damages.

• Sonstiges

  • •Self-declaration Knowledge of German Directives:
  • •The contractor must be familiar with safety, electrical and mechanical directives in the German market to ensure acceptance by German authorized body. Those directives are:
  • •- DIN EN 12583 Gas-Compressor Stations,
  • •- DVGW guidelines especially G 260, G 442, G 495, G 497
  • •- EC Machinery guidelines 2006/42/EG und EU 2023/1230,
  • •- EC Pressure Equipment Directive 2014/68/EC (PED),
  • •- Technical regulations for pressure vessels, TRB, AD gazettes,
  • •- Norms for functional safety of electrical/electronic/ programmable electronic safety-related systems, determination SIL level, for example (but not limited to) IEC DIN EN 61508, IEC DIN EN 61511.
  • •- EC Explosion protection guidelines 2014/34/EC, ATEX,
  • •- Norms for electrical equipment, for example (but not limited to) DIN EN 60034, DIN EN 50014-34, DIN EN 60079,
  • •- Electrical equipment and apparatuses are to be tested and certified by the manufacturer according to the Accident Prevention Regulations (DGUV V3) for Electrical Systems and Equipment.
  • •- VDE regulations especially
  • •- DIN VDE 0100, all parts as far as applicable
  • •- VDE AR-N 4110
  • •- VDI applicable guidelines and gazettes
  • •Self-Declaration Code of Conduct:
  • •Tenderer shall ensure that Tenderer and its personnel do not pay any commission or fee or grant any loan or rebate to any of Company"s personnel, nor provide such Company"s personnel with gifts or entertainment of significant cost or value, not enter into any business arrangements with such Company"s personnel either as individuals or as representatives of anyone other than Company.
  • •A breach of this condition can lead to disqualification of the Tenderer.
  • •Company conducts its business in accordance with the principles of sustainable development and complies with internationally recognized fundamental environmental, labour and social standards. Company has described and set forth its understanding and implementation of these standards in it"s "Code of Conduct" (https://www.nel-gastransport.de/fileadmin/Dokumente/Lieferanten/GASCADE_Verhaltenskodex_Lieferanten.pdf)
  • •Company expects likewise that Tenderers and Contractors will comply with environmental, labour, social and corporate governance standards ("ESG Standards").
  • •Should Company discover that Tenderer or Contractor is in breach of these ESG Standards, Company reserves the right to reject such Tenderer's Tender or terminate the contract with such Contractor, as the case maybe, - without notice, if necessary - on account of national circumstances. Furthermore, Contractor shall be obliged to ensure that all its subcontractors of any tier shall also observe these standards likewise.
  • •By submission of its Tender Tenderer warrants that:
  • •­The prices in the Tender have been arrived at independently, without consultation, communication, agreement or understanding for the purpose of restricting competition, as to any matter relating to such prices, with any other Tenderer or with any competitor.
  • •­Unless otherwise required by law, the prices which have been quoted in the Tender have not knowingly been disclosed by the Tenderer, directly or indirectly, to any other Tenderer or competitor, nor will they be so disclosed.
  • •­No attempt has been made or will be made by the Tenderer to induce any other person or firm to submit or not to submit a Tender for the purpose of restricting competition.
  • •The Tenderer confirms compliance with all requirements mentioned in this section by a self-declaration, which must be attached to the application to participate.

• Eignung zur Berufsausübung

  • •PL1: A proof of registration in the trade or commercial register must be attached in accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which the tenderer is based (in unverified copy), provided that the tenderer is registered in the trade or commercial register.
  • •In case of non-registration
  • •The submission of a business registration (for foreign tenderers: or equivalent).
  • •The proof may be submitted in (non-certified) photocopy/scan (PDF) but must be clearly legible and formulated in German or English (if necessary, translated). The proof must not be older than 6 months at the time of the publication of this announcement.
  • •PL2: Declaration of the absence of Exclusion Grounds according to §§ 123, 124 GWB. The proof of self-cleaning measures according to § 125 GWB is possible.
  • •PL3: Self-Declaration Regarding Regulation (EU) 2022/576 (Sanctions against Russia).

• Technische und berufliche Leistungsfähigkeit

  • •TL1: Information on the execution of relevant and comparable services (references) in the last maximum fifteen (15) years since the publication of the notice.
  • •Comparability requires that the listed references are comparable both in terms of performance and subject matter to the required service package. A reference is considered comparable, in particular, when it involves services that allow conclusions about the applicant's suitability based on size and complexity. It should be noted that a reference project, for the purposes of this self-declaration, is comparable if the following services were performed in the reference project:
  • •Design, construction, project management, installation, and commissioning of hermetically sealed, electrically driven compressor units, consisting of a compressor/motor unit with electrical equipment such as magnetic bearings, transformer, variable frequency drive (VFD) with associated cooler, and dedicated control system constructed in accordance with DVGW, SVGW, or OVGW standards.
  • •The reference must include at least the following information to demonstrate comparability:
  • •1. Reference Title
  • •2. Contracting Authority
  • •3. Contract Person including contact data
  • •4. Description of services provided
  • •5. Value in EUR (net)
  • •6. Period of execution
  • •Minimum Requirement (Failure to meet will result in exclusion):
  • •At least three particularly relevant (comparable) references must be submitted.
  • •TL2: Proof of Certification according to DIN ISO/IEC 27001
  • •A proof of certification according to ISO DIN ISO/IEC 27001 (or equivalent) must be attached. The proof can be submitted as a photocopy/copy (PDF) but must be clearly legible. The contractor will receive remote access to the contracting authority's IT system to query the status data of the machines and to provide support services online. The contracting authority, as an operator of critical infrastructure, is subject to the requirements of the BSI Critical Infrastructure Ordinance.