Hankinnan kuvaus
General
Fingrid Oyj, the Finnish national transmission system operator, is initiating this procurement consisting of heavy shop inspection, repair and engine testing services for one (1) Pratt and Whitney JT4 engine.
Fingrid owns and operates ten (10) reserve power plants for electricity transmission grid protection application. Two (2) of these power plants are based in total on six (6) Pratt and Whitney JT4 gas generators.
With this invitation to participate Fingrid is looking for capable and interested candidates to the service described below.
Preliminary schedule of the procurement
Fingrid will use the negotiated procedure for this procurement consisting of heavy shop inspection, repair and engine testing services for one (1) Pratt and Whitney JT4 engine.
The negotiated procedure will tentatively go as follows. Fingrid, however, reserve all rights to revise and edit the schedule during the process.
Invitation to participate
This invitation to participate has been launched launched in January 2021. Interested parties are invited to send an application to participate: deadline to provide Application see IV.2.2).
Applications and their evaluation
All candidates, who have submitted the application within the set deadline and who meet the minimum requirements set for the candidate’s eligibility will be selected to the negotiated procedure.
Invitation to negotiate
The candidates selected as tenderers shall be in receipt of an invitation to negotiate and preliminary schedule of negotiations. Fingrid aims to send the invitations to negotiate in February-March 2021. A preliminary Request to tender will also be enclosed to the Invitation to negotiate sent to the tenderers.
Negotiations
The preliminary time schedule of negotiations is during March 2021. Fingrid shall conduct negotiations separately and equally with each party. Fingrid shall not open confidential information of the negotiating party without permission from the party in question.
Suggested plans and Request to tender with its annexes are elaborated during negotiations. The purpose of the negotiations is to finalize the Request to tender.
Negotiations may cover all the solutions and conditions concerning the services to be provided.
Fingrid shall inform the negotiating parties about termination of negotiations.
Negotiations will most probably, due to the ongoing Covid-19 situation, be held through teams-application or similar conference call program.
Call for tender
After the negotiation stage Fingrid shall send, to the tenderers, in writing, Final Request to tender. Estimated time of sending such a request to the tenderers is in March-April 2021, and deadline of submission of tenders by the tenderers, approximately in April 2021.
Evaluation of final tenders and contract award
Fingrid aim to finalize the procurement process during April-May 2021. Before evaluation of the submitted tenders, Fingrid shall verify that the tenders and the services tendered fulfill the requirements of the Request to tender. Tenders contrary to Request to tender shall be excluded from the comparison. Comparison of eligible tenders that fulfill the requirements of the Request to tender shall be conducted in accordance with the selection criterion for the contract stipulated in the request to tender. The tenders shall be awarded with points and the evaluation shall be justified, approximately in May 2021. The intention is to sign the agreement during May-June 2021.