District Heating Battery - Kokkola

Kokkolan Energia Oy ("The Contracting Entity") is implementing an electric boiler and district heating accumulator project ("Project"). The Project includes, according to the Contracting Entity's preliminary estimate: - procurement of two electrode steam boilers, - district heating battery (accumulator), - electrical connections, - main transformers, - boiler building, and - infrastructure which is necessary for the overall implementation of the Project (e.g. pipelines and heat exchangers). Each procurement is procured separately within the delivery limits, delivery scope, and time schedule determined by the Contracting Entity. The scope of this procurement is district heating battery (accumulator) construction/installation. The scope of the contract is described in the appendices of the Call for Tenders. District heating battery will be constructed/installed at the following address: Kokkolan Energia Oy, Voima-power plant, Voimalantie 17, 67900 Kokkola.

The Contracting Entity has the right to suspend the procurement procedure for a real and legitimate reason (Section 116 of the Procurement Act for Special Sectors).

COMPETITIVE TENDERING: The Tenderer's total score (price point + quality points) will be added together. The Contract will be awarded to the Tenderer who has submitted a tender in accordance with the terms and requirements of the Call for Tenders and whose tender is the most economically advantageous. The tender with the best price-quality ratio will be considered as the most economically advantageous tender. The winner of the competitive tendering is selected by comparing fixed price and tendered delivery time commitment. The maximum points the Tenderer can get from the total comparison is 100 points (price 88 points + delivery time 12 points). The Tenderer who gets the highest total comparison points will be awarded the Contract. TENDERS CONTAINING PRODUCTS FROM THIRD COUNTRIES: According to Section 97 of the Act on Procurements and Concession Contracts of Entities Operating in the Water and Energy Supply, Transport and Postal Services Sector (1398/2016) (“Act”), any tender submitted for the award of a supply contract may be rejected where the proportion of the products originating in third countries, as determined in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 October 2013 laying down the Union Customs Code), exceeds 50 % of the total value of the products constituting the tender. The above shall not apply to tenders containing products originating in third countries with which the European Union has concluded, whether multilaterally or bilaterally, an agreement ensuring comparable and effective access for Union undertakings to the markets of those third countries. For this procurement, the Contracting Entity will make use of the possibility of rejecting a tender in accordance with Section 97 of the Act if the tender includes products from the above-mentioned third countries (District Heating Accumulator and related machinery, equipment and other similar products, such as steel plate products) representing more than 50 % of the total value of the products included in the tender. The Tenderer shall indicate its tender price for all the products described in the Appendix “Unit Price Form” to the Call for Tenders, as well as the country of origin/place of manufacture of these products. The Contracting Entity will evaluate and decide on the proportion of the total value of the tender relating to products originating in third countries and related to the procurement. If necessary, the Contracting Entity may ask the Tenderer to provide additional information if, upon examination of the tenders, it is not possible to determine unambiguously which of the products covered by the contract originate from third countries. Third countries in this context are those countries outside the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA) which are not party to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) and with which the European Union (EU) has not concluded a bilateral agreement to open up public procurement. Examples of such third countries include mainland China and India. SITE VISITS: The Contracting Entity reserves all interested Tenderers the opportunity to visit the installation/construction site before submitting a tender. The time of the site visit will be agreed individually with each Tenderer. The site visits will take place in weeks 25-26 (2025). Each Tenderer will be reserved a two (2) hour slot for the site visit. In case of overlapping scheduling of the visits, the visits will be reserved in order of preference for the Tenderers, with priority given to the Tenderer who booked earlier. The Contracting Entity may decide to combine the site visits in such a way that two (2) or more Tenderers interested in the procurement participate in one visit at the same time. The Tenderer may propose the site visit via email by 25.6.2025 at the latest: hankinnat@kokkolanenergia.fi The site visit is not a prerequisite for submitting a tender. However, failure to attend the site visit shall in no way diminish the Tenderer's obligations and liabilities under the procurement procedure or Contract.