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Pre-Commercial Procurement: Design, develop, and demonstrate wave energy converter systems (EuropeWave PCP).

Lead Procurer: Wave Energy Scotland Limited

This public procurement record has 2 releases in its history.

Award

22 Mar 2022 at 00:00

OJEU - F3 - Contract Award Notice
Tender

02 Jul 2021 at 01:00

OJEU - F2 - Contract Notice
Summary of the contracting process

The public procurement process involves a tender initiated by Wave Energy Scotland Limited for the project titled "Pre-Commercial Procurement: Design, develop, and demonstrate wave energy converter systems (EuropeWave PCP)." This procurement falls under the services category, focusing on technology research and development within the energy industry. The primary location for activities includes Scotland and the Basque Country, with significant milestones to note: the tender submission deadline occurred on 1 October 2021, while the contract was awarded on 21 March 2022, with an estimated total value of €16,333,333 for the pre-commercial procurement phases.

This project offers substantial opportunities for businesses involved in research and development within the renewable energy sector, specifically those specialising in wave energy technologies. Companies capable of innovative design, engineering, and deployment of energy systems, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises, may find it advantageous to engage. The framework agreement allows for a competitive environment as multiple contractors will be selected, enabling the successful bidders to retain intellectual property rights for solutions developed during the procurement process.

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Notice Information

Notice Title

Pre-Commercial Procurement: Design, develop, and demonstrate wave energy converter systems (EuropeWave PCP).

Notice Description

This contract award notice informs interested operators about the outcome of a tender. On 7 July 2021, a contract notice was published in TED as part of the EU project EuropeWave to purchase R&D services from a number of R&D providers in parallel (PCP procurement). The PCP procurement compared competing alternative solution approaches to address the following challenge: The EuropeWave PCP aims to accelerate the design, development, and demonstration of cost-effective wave energy converter (WEC) systems to produce clean electricity, advance promising designs for wave energy converter systems to a point from which they are ready to proceed to a first of a kind commercial-scale design and testing programme and commercial exploitation through other national/regional programmes and/or private sector investment. The main technical challenges to be addressed are: -Performance - obtain quantitative evidence of power capture and conversion capability and increase confidence in yield predictions from simulations. -Survivability - demonstrate effective survival strategies. -Availability - demonstrate levels of availability through reliable prototype operation. -Affordability - increase confidence in estimations of the technology costs (capital and operational) and the requirements to achieve a LCOE which is competitive in the target market. The culmination of the EuropeWave PCP programme (Phase 3) will see prototypes, at substantial scale and with fully representative subsystems, deployed at the open-water facilities of the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Scotland and the Biscay Marine Energy Platform (BiMEP) in the Basque Country and operated for a minimum period to demonstrate device performance, reliability and cost. Physical model testing in earlier phases is expected to take place in Instituto de Hidraulica Ambiental de Cantabria (IHC) and FloWave Ocean Energy Research Facility (FloWave). This joint procurement exercise is being undertaken by Wave Energy Scotland in its role of lead procurer acting in the name and on behalf of the procurers of the EuropeWave buyers group: -Wave Energy Scotland -Ente Vasco de la Energia

Lot Information

Lot 1

The procurement was announced in the form of a pre-commercial procurement (PCP) In a PCP, R&D service contracts are awarded to several R&D service providers in parallel to progressively develop solutions in a phased approach. This allows the procurers to compare several design solutions in a competitive environment. The EuropeWave PCP combines the phased approach of the PCP model, a stage-gated industrial development process, and an international evaluation and guidance framework for ocean energy technology. Each selected operator will be awarded a framework agreement that covers up to three R&D phases: Phase 1: Concept development Phase 2: Design/modelling Phase 3: Open-sea deployment & testing programme After each phase, intermediate evaluations will be carried out to progressively select the best of the competing solutions. The contractors with the best-value-for-money solutions will be offered a call-off contract for the next phase, under the framework agreement. Phase 1 started in January 2022. Phase 3 is expected to start in September 2023 and conclude in May 2026. The selected operators will retain ownership of the intellectual property rights (IPRs) that they generate during the PCP and will be able to use them to exploit the full market potential of the developed solutions. This procurement receives funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, under grant agreement No 883751. The EU is not participating as a contracting authority in the procurement. A total budget of 16 333 333 EUR was earmarked for awarding the contracts to a minimum of: - Minimum 5 / anticipated 7 contractors for phase 1 - Minimum 4 / anticipated 5 contractors for phase 2 and - Minimum 3 contractors for phase 3. The abstracts of the winning tenders are available on europewave.eu.

Options: Unused budget in Phase 1 and/or Phase 2 may be carried over to the subsequent phases.

Renewal: The Lead Procurer reserves the right to extend the duration of the framework agreement or any call-off contracts from it (time extensions only).

Notice Details

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-r6ebe6-0000650423
Publication Source
Public Contracts Scotland
Latest Notice
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=MAR444301
Current Stage
Award
All Stages
Tender, Award

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
OJEU - F3 - Contract Award Notice
Procurement Type
Framework
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Open
Procurement Method Details
Open procedure
Tender Suitability
Not specified
Awardee Scale
Large, SME

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

71 - Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services

73 - Research and development services and related consultancy services

76 - Services related to the oil and gas industry

CPV Codes

71300000 - Engineering services

73100000 - Research and experimental development services

73300000 - Design and execution of research and development

76000000 - Services related to the oil and gas industry

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
£16,333,333 £10M-£100M
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
£16,333,333 £10M-£100M

Notice Dates

Publication Date
22 Mar 20224 years ago
Submission Deadline
1 Oct 2021Expired
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
21 Mar 20224 years ago
Contract Period
Not specified - Not specified
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Complete
Lots Status
Complete
Awards Status
Not Specified
Contracts Status
Active

Buyer & Supplier

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
Lead Procurer: Wave Energy Scotland Limited
Additional Buyers

Ente Vasco de la Energía

Contact Name
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Contact Email
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Contact Phone
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Buyer Location

Locality
BILBAO
Postcode
IV2 5NA
Postcode Area
Inverness
Country
Scotland
Major Region (ITL 1)
TLM Scotland
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLM2 Highlands and Islands
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLM20 Highlands and Islands
Delivery Location
Not specified
Local Authority
Highland
Electoral Ward
Inverness South
Westminster Constituency
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
7
Supplier Names

AMOG Consulting Ltd

Arrecife Energy Systems

Bombora Wave Power Europe Ltd

CETO Wave Energy Ireland Limited

IDOM Consulting, Engineering, Architecture S.A.U.

Mocean Energy Ltd

Waveram Limited

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