Rock Placement Germany

The application documents must be submitted in digital form (in a standardized data format, e.g. PDF and MS Office format) exclusively via the Mercell platform.
Pre-submission of application documents by email, fax or mail is not permitted and will lead to disqualification of the applicant and exclusion from the tender process.

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Requests to participate must be submitted in full by above deadline exclusively via Mercell in the sections provided for this purpose. Please use all forms provided on the Mercell online platform, which must be submitted with the tender application. Tender applications that are submitted late cannot be considered. Incomplete documents may lead to exclusion from the tender.

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The contracting entity reserves the right to invite a maximum of five (5) candidates to participate in negotiations following the initial evaluation of tenders. The selection of candidates to be invited will be based on the award criteria specified in Section 5.1.10. This limitation serves to ensure an efficient negotiation process while maintaining fair competition among qualified bidders.
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In accordance with § 57 SektVO, the contracting authority is authorised to discontinue the award procedure at any time.

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The total estimated maximum value of the framework agreement is EUR 24,000,000.
This amount represents the overall ceiling, including all call-offs, options and potential extensions.
It does not constitute a commitment or guarantee by the contracting entity to award or call off the stated volume, nor does it create any obligation to place call-offs if no needs arise during the contract term.
The total value of all call-offs shall not exceed the maximum amount indicated above.
The stated amount is provided for transparency purposes only and may not be used as a commercial guideline or expectation for offer pricing.

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The award of the contract is subject to changes in the legal and/or regulatory framework, rules and regulations in force at the time of publication of this announcement.

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The exercise of any call-offs under this framework agreement is subject to the proviso that the necessary approvals for the realization of the projects have been obtained or the corresponding projects in the network development plan have been finally confirmed.

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Companies affiliated with the contracting authority within the meaning of §§ 15 ff. AktG (even if they are only founded after conclusion of the framework agreement).
Call-offs under this agreement are made in particular by the contracting authority (TenneT Offshore GmbH) and/or one of its affiliated companies, this is further described in the tender documentation.

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The Principal is authorised to transfer the rights and obligations of the subject matter of the contract as a whole to a project company (Special Purpose Vehicle/NewCo), irrespective of whether third parties have already participated as shareholders in this project company or will only participate in such a company after any transfer of this Framework Agreement.

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Technical questions regarding the use of Mercell can be addressed directly to the Mercell ServiceDesk:
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Methodology for the general evaluation of offers and BAFO offers
For each criterion - except for the evaluation criterion "price", which will be dealt with separately - a comparative evaluation will be carried out and the bidders will be ranked according to their performance within this criterion.
The ranking is then multiplied by the weighting of the respective criterion. The weighted rankings of all criteria are added together.
The bidder with the best overall ranking is deemed to be the most economically favourable bidder and will be awarded with the first place.

Price:
The price criterion is based on the following evaluation of the bids/offers: The bid with the lowest bid price will be ranked at 1.00.
Any bid that exceeds 2 times the lowest bid price will be awarded the last rank, which always corresponds to the number of bids submitted and evaluated.
The evaluation of the bid prices which lie in between is carried out by means of linear interpolation with up to two decimal digits.
This applies to both, the selection of candidates to conduct the negotiations with (evaluation based on the initial offer documents) as well as the later awarding of the contract to the winning candidate (evaluation based on BAFO documents).

Contractual conditions: The negotiation results within the framework of the award procedure are evaluated with regard to the final distribution of contractual risks to the disadvantage of the TenneT in comparison to TenneT's draft.
If there are no specifications from TenneT, the results of the negotiations are assessed comparatively.

Technical Ability & Availability: The results of the negotiations within the framework of the award procedure are evaluated with regard to the final concept submitted by the bidders in terms of the overall service design in all areas required by TenneT.
The results of the negotiations are evaluated comparatively.

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Any applicant or tenderer who considers its rights infringed by non-compliance with public procurement law may lodge a complaint in accordance with Section 160 (3) of the German Act against Restraints of Competition (GWB).
Complaints must be raised within the statutory deadlines; in particular, alleged violations must be notified to the contracting entity within 10 days of becoming known and at the latest before the expiry of the tender deadline.
After the contracting entity has rejected a complaint, a review application must be filed within 15 days.