Advanced Energy Recovery from Sludge
Thames Water is looking for new methods to recover larger amounts of renewable energy from sewage sludge to meet regulatory, economic and environmental targets. Recent developments and success in advanced thermal recovery technology has prompted this OJEU.
UK-Reading: Construction works for sewage treatment plants, purification plants and refuse incineration plants
2013/S 019-028835
Contract notice – utilities
Services
Directive 2004/17/EC
Section I: Contracting entity
Thames Water Utilities Limited
Procurement Support Centre – 3rd Floor East, c/o Mail Room, Rose Kiln Court
RG2 0BY Reading
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail: procurement.support.centre@thameswater.co.uk
Further information can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: The above mentioned contact point(s)
Section II: Object of the contract
Service category No 16: Sewage and refuse disposal services; sanitation and similar services
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: Whole of Thames Water region.
NUTS code
maximum number of participants to the framework agreement envisaged: 3
Duration of the framework agreement
Duration in months: 84
Conventional anaerobic digestion typically recovers 30 % of energy value contained within sludge with the bulk of the energy potential being lost as sludge is applied to agricultural land.
Thames Water is looking for new methods to recover larger amounts of renewable energy from sewage sludge to meet regulatory, economic and environmental targets. Recent developments and success in advanced thermal recovery technology has prompted this OJEU.
Thames Water is seeking as a minimum a third party technology provider to work with us to develop a full scale (10-40 dry-tonnes/day) demonstration plant to recover renewable energy in the form of electricity, biogas and/or heat. The source being dewatered sewage sludge cake or dried sludge with a dry solids content of 17-30 % and 80-95 % respectively and an energy content of 12-16 MJ/kg dry solids. The technology could either be plasma gasification, gasification, pyrolysis, supercritical water oxidation or others.
These technologies could either be market ready or under development. We are seeking market ready technologies to meet immediate requirements. However, we may also be interested in developing technologies with potential to meet our requirements.
Allotment:
Lot 1: Technology that is already proven in the water utilities sector.
Lot 2: Technology that is proven in industries other than water.
Lot 3: Technology that is at the developmental stage and unproven.
Suppliers can apply for more than one lot if they can offer more than one technological process. Please note that awards may not be made for any or all lots.
Agreements will be awarded for a minimum of at least 3 years up to a maximum of 7 years.
45252000, 45252300, 71323000
Tenders may be submitted for one or more lots
Description of these options: Any agreement awarded would be for an initial duration of 3 years, with options to extend annually up to a maximum overall term of 7 years.
Provisional timetable for recourse to these options:
in months: 84 (from the award of the contract)
Information about lots
Lot No: 1 Lot title: Technology that is proven in the water utilities sector
45252000, 45252300
45252000, 45252300
71323000
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Section IV: Procedure
Some candidates have already been selected (if appropriate under certain types of negotiated procedures): no
Section VI: Complementary information
Estimated timing for further notices to be published: 84 months
All suppliers who wish to respond to this OJEU notice to indicate their interest in the tender, must request a ‘pre-qualification questionnaire’ (PQQ) document. The PQQ will be available from 18.2.2013 and should be requested via email from (procurement.support.centre@thameswater.co.uk) no later than 15.2.2013.
Further instructions for bidders are within the PQQ.
Variants will be accepted, if submitted in addition to a compliant bid.
Weighted selection criteria will be used to evaluate the responses to the PQQ, as set out in the PQQ:
Contracts will be under English law.
General
Thames Water Utilities Limited reserves the right to require further information or clarification from an applicant before considering its response.
Thames Water Utilities Limited reserves the right to exclude an applicant from the procurement process if it is subsequently determined that any information supplied was inaccurate, incomplete or untrue and was relied on for selection purposes.
Thames Water Utilities Limited reserves the right to make no award as a result of this procurement process. Except for the framework agreements, if any, concluded with the successful tenderers, nothing in the procurement process shall create a contract, whether express or implied, between Thames Water Utilities Limited and any applicant.
Thames Water Utilities Limited (including its employees and advisers) does not make any representations, warranties or other commitments, whether express or implied, in relation to the accuracy, adequacy or completeness of the information provided to applicants in this Contact Notice or otherwise in connection with this tender, except as may be specifically agreed in any contract concluded at the end of this tender process.
Thames Water Utilities Limited may disclose any information if required to do so by any applicable laws or regulations (including but not limited to, the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 and the Freedom of Information Act 2000, to the extent that these may now or in the future apply to Thames Water Utilities Limited), any requirements or guidelines of any competent regulatory body, and any order of any court of competent jurisdiction.
The Utilities Contracts Regulations (SI 2006 No 6) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland).
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:24.1.2013