Official UK procurement notice
Celtic Sea Floating Offshore Wind Leasing Round 5 (“Round 5")
Authority: The Crown Estate (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis is a services concession contract.
The contracts which The Crown Estate expects to enter into as a result of the Celtic Sea Floating Offshore Wind Leasing Round 5 (“Round 5") will grant new seabed rights to developers for the development of new floating wind farms within three project development areas, each of which has a maximum potential energy generation capacity of 1.5GW (meaning a combined maximum potential energy generation capacity of 4.5GW across all 3 project development areas).
These rights will be governed by three separate ‘agreements for lease’, which The Crown Estate intends to award to three different successful suppliers through a competitive tender process – one for each of the three project development areas. Holders of the agreements for lease will acquire the rights necessary to develop floating offshore wind farms in the relevant project development areas and will have the option to enter into leases with The Crown Estate for the construction and operation of these wind farms for the purposes of the generation, transmission and sale of electricity (or other forms of energy, where permitted), subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions detailed in the agreements for lease.
CPV: Construction-related services · Electricity · Electricity supply installations · Offshore mooring work · Offshore-module fabrication work · Subsea drilling work · Turbine works · Wind farm · Wind turbines · Wind-power installation works · Works for complete or part construction and civil engineering work
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The Crown Estate, as managers of the seabed around England, Wales and Northern…
The Crown Estate, as managers of the seabed around England, Wales and Northern Ireland, wishes to award seabed rights to prospective suppliers and developers, which will allow such suppliers and developers to develop, build and operate floating offshore wind farms in the Celtic Sea for the purposes of generating, transmitting and selling electricity (or other forms of energy, where permitted), as part of Round 5.
The contracts which The Crown Estate expects to enter into as a result of Round 5 will grant new seabed rights to developers for the development of new floating wind farms within three project development areas, each of which has a maximum potential energy generation capacity of 1.5GW (meaning a combined maximum potential energy generation capacity of 4.5GW across all 3 project development areas).
These rights will be governed by three separate ‘agreements for lease’, which The Crown Estate intends to award to three different successful suppliers through a competitive tender process – one for each of the three project development areas. Holders of the agreements for lease will acquire the rights necessary to develop floating offshore wind farms in the relevant project development areas and will have the option to enter into leases with The Crown Estate for the construction and operation of these wind farms for the purposes of the generation, transmission and sale of electricity (or other forms of energy, where permitted), subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions detailed in the agreements for lease.
Further information is included in the information memorandum that was published by The Crown Estate in relation to Round 5 in December 2023, a copy of which can be found at:
www.thecrownestate.co.uk/our-business/marine/… ↗.
The Crown Estate also published a prior Information Notice on 7 December 2023, (Notice reference 2023/S000-036033) and held a Bidders Day for Round 5 at the Swansea Arena, Wales on 31st January 2024. A recording of the event and the slides used, can be found at:
www.thecrownestate.co.uk/our-business/marine/… ↗
The procurement process for Round 5 will comprise of a pre-qualification questionnaire stage, followed by an invitation to tender stage 1 and an invitation to tender stage 2.
A copy of the pre-qualification questionnaire is available to suppliers that have registered on The Crown Estate’s e tendering portal, via such portal, which is available at:
etendering.thecrownestate.co.uk ↗
via the Links “Round 5 Registration and PQQ User Guide”.
The pre-qualification questionnaire includes a summary of the key requirements that will apply during the invitation to tender stage 1 and invitation to tender stage 2 stages.
What it takes to wini
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).
- Suitability
Suppliers are referred to the procurement documents for further information on The Crown Estate’s requirements on participation.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0023 Concession Contracts Regulations 2016 (Directive 2014/23/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- 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
- 28 Feb 2024, 16:44 GMT
- Last source update
- 28 Feb 2024, 16:44 GMT
- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-006434- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-044416Find a Tender
- Performance terms
Full details of the performance conditions and other requirements to be satisfied by suppliers will be summarised in the pre-qualification questionnaire and the other procurement documents provided with the pre-qualification questionnaire.
- Review procedure
The Crown Estate will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period when the reasons for its contract award decisions are communicated to potential suppliers. Proceedings must be lodged in the High Court in accordance with the procedures set out in the Concession Contracts Regulations 2016 (as amended).
Publisher note: As stated above, this is a services concession contract. Suppliers wishing to participate in the Round 5 procurement process must complete and submit a pre-qualification questionnaire response in accordance with the requirements set out in the pre-qualification questionnaire. To obtain the pre-qualification questionnaire and other relevant documents, suppliers must first register on The Crown Estate’s e tendering portal, which is available at: https://etendering.thecrownestate.co.uk via the Links “Round 5 Registration and PQQ User Guide”. Other relevant material which relates to Round 5 (including the information memorandum published by The Crown Estate in December 2023 and other information made available by The Crown Estate during a ‘Bidders Day held in Swansea in January 2023) is available at: https://www.thecrownestate.co.uk/our-business/marine/round-5-document-library The pre-qualification questionnaire includes a more detailed description of the procurement process intended to be followed (including estimated timelines) and the award criteria according to which the three successful suppliers will be identified. The pre-qualification questionnaire also includes details on how suppliers can submit pre-qualification questionnaire responses, the deadline for submitting pre-qualification questionnaire responses, how clarification questions can be submitted to The Crown Estate via The Crown Estate’s e tendering portal and the deadline for submitting such clarification questions. The Crown Estate reserves the right not to award the opportunity, or to award only part (or a different arrangement) of the opportunity, described in this concession notice. Further information on this procurement process and indicative timings for the invitation to tender stages are set out in the pre-qualification questionnaire. Potential suppliers will be invited via The Crown Estate’s e tendering portal to provide an early indication of whether or not they intend to submit a pre-qualification questionnaire response in advance of the deadline for providing a pre-qualification questionnaire response. Such early indications are intended to be for information purposes only and are not intended to be binding on those suppliers that provide them. The provision or non-provision of such indications will not be taken into account in the evaluation of the supplier’s pre-qualification questionnaire response.
How it was run
Official noticeTender documents are also served through a separate tool: https://etendering.thecrownestate.co.uk ↗
- Submission deadline
- 18 Apr 2024, 23:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission","written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Participation fee
- document
Timeline
28 Feb 2024 → 18 Apr 2024 · 2 dates- Notice published28 Feb 2024, 16:44 GMT
- Submission deadline18 Apr 2024, 23:00 BST
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- High CourtReview body
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Technical selection criteria
- Economic and financial selection criteria