Short description
The purpose of this market dialogue (EU prior information notice) is for Helen Ltd. to activate the dialogue regarding the project alliance for Sea Water Heat Recovery System and scan the willingness of the suppliers to participate in the EU procurement of the project. In addition, Helen Ltd. will develop the project and it's implementation format together with the potential suppliers, and seeks for feedback regarding the implementation model of the procurement procedure, especially on the amount of the potential tenderer consortia.
Market dialogue as a method is recommended by the Public Procurement Act to map solutions on the market for specifying and developing the procurement.
This market dialogue (EU prior information notice) is neither actual EU procurement notification nor request for quotation. This market dialogue will be executed to serve as a preparation phase of the actual procurement.
The market dialogue (EU prior information notice) and given responses are not binding to either of the parties (client & supplier). By executing this market dialogue, Helen Ltd. will not commit to execute the actual procurement.
PROJECT
Helen Ltd. as the Contracting Authority has been conducting a preliminary feasibility study during 2020-2021 on different alternatives for sea water heat recovery. Drivers for the project are Helen's carbon neutrality goals and decision to mainly replace fossil-based production with non-combustion-based energy sources, such as various waste and environmental heat sources.
The Sea Water Heat Recovery Project concept aims for year-round district heating production with industrial-sized heat pump plant, a long sea water intake tunnel and a shorter sea water discharge tunnel. Starting point for the design is 300-500 MW district heating output. Location for heat pump equipment is planned to be in Helen Ltd.’s Salmisaari power plant area in Helsinki, Finland.
17 kilometres of intake tunnel construction is conceived to be carried out with TBM (tunnel boring machine) technology. Other tunnel construction works such as maximum of 9 kilometres of a discharge tunnel are likely to be performed using drilling & exploding method.
The project comprises of two parts: 1. Sea Water Heat Recovery System and 2. Salmisaari Heat Pump Plant. This EU prior information notice focuses on the Sea Water Heat Recovery System.
Preliminary commissioning of the Sea Water Heat Recovery System is the year 2029.
PROJECT ALLIANCING
Project Alliancing is considered as a project delivery method for Sea Water Heat Recovery System due to the complexity and cooperation requirements of the project.
Helen Ltd.'s main target in this procurement is to find a first-class project alliance group covering all needed sectors to execute the Sea Water Heat Recovery System part of the project. The second part (Salmisaari Heat Pump Plant) is preliminary planned to form an option of this procurement.
Helen Ltd. has done preparations for the procurement to be performed as a consortium where project alliance partners would consist of Helen Ltd., construction partner, TBM partner and engineering consultant partner. Project alliance would then cover all following sectors:
- Sea water system process design and optimization
- Engineering, procurement, and construction works regarding blasting and
construction
- Project management
- Coordination
- Planning and execution of the necessary equipment
Helen Ltd. aims to find and indent the critical partners to the project alliance without a delay.
Helen Ltd. will develop the project and its delivery method together with the potential suppliers, and seeks for feedback regarding the procurement procedure, especially the amount of the potential tenderer consortia.
COMPETITIVE DIALOGUE PROCEDURE
In actual procurement phase after the market dialogue, Competitive Dialogue (CD) is chosen as the procurement procedure.