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VALUE="ELECTRICITY"/></CONTRACTING_BODY><OBJECT_CONTRACT><TITLE><P>Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation of the HVDC Cable System for the EuroAsia Interconnector</P></TITLE><CPV_MAIN><CPV_CODE CODE="31321300"/></CPV_MAIN><TYPE_CONTRACT CTYPE="WORKS"/><SHORT_DESCR><P>EuroAsia Interconnector is a multi-terminal VSC-HVDC scheme which will connect Israel, Cyprus and Greece (Crete), and will comprise 3 converter stations with sea electrodes, interconnected by cables. Stage 1 of the project will allow the transfer of 1 000 MW between converter stations and the voltage level will be ±500 kV.</P><P>The scheme will be developed under 4 main tender procedures:</P><P>— Procurement of the VSC HVDC Converter Stations,</P><P>— Procurement of the HVDC Cable System,</P><P>— Procurement of the Sea-electrodes and MVDC Cables,</P><P>— Procurement of the Civil Works for Land Cable System.</P><P>This process concerns the second of the above tender processes and encompasses the engineering, procurement, construction and installation of the HVDC cable system.</P></SHORT_DESCR><VAL_ESTIMATED_TOTAL CURRENCY="EUR">1682000000.00</VAL_ESTIMATED_TOTAL><LOT_DIVISION><LOT_ALL/><LOT_COMBINING_CONTRACT_RIGHT><P>Detailed information is available in the ‘Invitation to Participate in Negotiated Process with prior Call for Competition’ for the contract with title ‘Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation of the HVDC Cable System for the EuroAsia Interconnector’ that can be found at www.euroasia-interconnector.com/procurement.</P></LOT_COMBINING_CONTRACT_RIGHT></LOT_DIVISION><OBJECT_DESCR ITEM="1"><TITLE><P>Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation of the HVDC Cable System for Pole 1 of Link 1 — Israel-Cyprus</P></TITLE><LOT_NO>1</LOT_NO><CPV_ADDITIONAL><CPV_CODE CODE="31321500"/></CPV_ADDITIONAL><n2016:NUTS CODE="CY0"/><n2016:NUTS CODE="00"/><MAIN_SITE><P>Israel, Cyprus and the Mediterranean basin between them.</P></MAIN_SITE><SHORT_DESCR><P>Engineering, procurement, construction and installation of the submarine HVDC cable system including all required joints for Pole 1 of Link 1. The distance between the sea/land transition bays in Israel and Cyprus is approximately 310 km and the submarine cable will be laid at a maximum water depth of 2 200 m.</P></SHORT_DESCR><AC><AC_PROCUREMENT_DOC/></AC><VAL_OBJECT CURRENCY="EUR">224000000.00</VAL_OBJECT><DURATION TYPE="MONTH">48</DURATION><NO_RENEWAL/><NB_ENVISAGED_CANDIDATE>1</NB_ENVISAGED_CANDIDATE><CRITERIA_CANDIDATE><P>The number of tenderers will not be limited to a maximum.</P><P>All qualified candidates satisfying the objective criteria will be invited to participate in the award stage of this negotiated procedure.</P><P>To qualify for participation in the award stage, objective criteria/requirements for the personal situation, the economic and financial standing and the technical and professional ability of the candidates must be satisfied. Details for the qualification requirements are provided in the ‘Invitation to Participate in Negotiated Process with prior Call for Competition’ for the contract with title ‘Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation of the HVDC Cable System for the EuroAsia Interconnector’ that can be found at www.euroasia-interconnector.com/procurement.</P><P>Economic operators must request access to the Ariba platform used for this pre-qualification phase via email in order to submit a ‘Request to Participate’ in the process. Detailed information is available in the ‘Invitation to Participate in Negotiated Process with prior Call for Competition’ for the Contract with title ‘Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation of the HVDC Cable System for the EuroAsia Interconnector’ that can be found at www.euroasia-interconnector.com/procurement.</P></CRITERIA_CANDIDATE><NO_ACCEPTED_VARIANTS/><OPTIONS/><OPTIONS_DESCR><P>Details regarding options will be provided to qualified candidates in the tender documents.</P></OPTIONS_DESCR><EU_PROGR_RELATED><P>PCI 3.10</P></EU_PROGR_RELATED><INFO_ADD><P>EuroAsia Interconnector is a cluster Project of Common Interest (PCI 3.10) of the EU consisting of two PCIs:</P><P>— PCI 3.10.1: Israel-Cyprus,</P><P>— PCI 3.10.2: Cyprus-Greece (Crete).</P><P>The project has been approved for grants by CEF in 2 occasions (Action 3.10.1-0028-CY-S-M-14 and Action 3.10.1-0004-CYEL-S-M-16).</P></INFO_ADD></OBJECT_DESCR><OBJECT_DESCR ITEM="2"><TITLE><P>Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation of the HVDC Cable System for Pole 2 of Link 1 — Israel-Cyprus</P></TITLE><LOT_NO>2</LOT_NO><CPV_ADDITIONAL><CPV_CODE CODE="31321500"/></CPV_ADDITIONAL><n2016:NUTS CODE="CY0"/><n2016:NUTS CODE="00"/><MAIN_SITE><P>Israel, Cyprus and the Mediterranean basin between them.</P></MAIN_SITE><SHORT_DESCR><P>Engineering, procurement, construction and installation of the submarine HVDC cable system including all required joints for Pole 2 of Link 1. 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Details for the qualification requirements are provided in the ‘Invitation to Participate in Negotiated Process with prior Call for Competition’ for the Contract with title ‘Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation of the HVDC Cable System for the EuroAsia Interconnector’ that can be found at www.euroasia-interconnector.com/procurement.</P><P>Economic operators must request access to the Ariba platform used for this pre-qualification phase via email in order to submit a ‘Request to Participate’ in the process. Detailed information is available in the ‘Invitation to Participate in Negotiated Process with prior Call for Competition’ for the contract with title ‘Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation of the HVDC Cable System for the EuroAsia Interconnector’ that can be found at www.euroasia-interconnector.com/procurement.</P></CRITERIA_CANDIDATE><NO_ACCEPTED_VARIANTS/><OPTIONS/><OPTIONS_DESCR><P>Details regarding options will be provided to qualified candidates in the tender documents.</P></OPTIONS_DESCR><EU_PROGR_RELATED><P>PCI 3.10</P></EU_PROGR_RELATED><INFO_ADD><P>EuroAsia Interconnector is a cluster Project of Common Interest (PCI 3.10) of the EU consisting of 2 PCIs:</P><P>— PCI 3.10.1: Israel-Cyprus,</P><P>— PCI 3.10.2: Cyprus-Greece (Crete).</P><P>The project has been approved for grants by CEF in 2 occasions (Action 3.10.1-0028-CY-S-M-14 and Action3.10.1-0004-CYEL-S-M-16).</P></INFO_ADD></OBJECT_DESCR><OBJECT_DESCR ITEM="3"><TITLE><P>Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation of the HVDC Cable System for Pole 1 of Link 2 — Cyprus-Greece (Crete)</P></TITLE><LOT_NO>3</LOT_NO><CPV_ADDITIONAL><CPV_CODE CODE="31321500"/></CPV_ADDITIONAL><n2016:NUTS CODE="CY0"/><n2016:NUTS CODE="EL"/><n2016:NUTS CODE="EL43"/><MAIN_SITE><P>Cyprus, Greece (Crete) and the Mediterranean basin between them.</P></MAIN_SITE><SHORT_DESCR><P>Engineering, procurement, construction and installation of the HVDC Cable System including all required joints for Pole 1 of Link 2. The distance between the sea/land transition bays in Cyprus and Greece (Crete) is approximately 895 km and the submarine cable will be laid at a maximum water depth of 3 000 m.</P></SHORT_DESCR><AC><AC_PROCUREMENT_DOC/></AC><VAL_OBJECT CURRENCY="EUR">617000000.00</VAL_OBJECT><DURATION TYPE="MONTH">48</DURATION><NO_RENEWAL/><NB_ENVISAGED_CANDIDATE>1</NB_ENVISAGED_CANDIDATE><CRITERIA_CANDIDATE><P>The number of tenderers will not be limited to a maximum.</P><P>All qualified candidates satisfying the objective criteria will be invited to participate in the award stage of this negotiated procedure.</P><P>To qualify for participation in the award stage, objective criteria/requirements for the personal situation, the economic and financial standing and the technical and professional ability of the candidates must be satisfied. Details for the qualification requirements are provided in the ‘Invitation to Participate in Negotiated Process with prior Call for Competition’ for the contract with title ‘Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation of the HVDC Cable System for the EuroAsia Interconnector’ that can be found at www.euroasia-interconnector.com/procurement.</P><P>Economic operators must request access to the Ariba platform used for this pre-qualification phase via email in order to submit a ‘Request to Participate’ in the process. Detailed information is available in the ‘Invitation to Participate in Negotiated Process with prior Call for Competition for the Contract’ with title ‘Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation of the HVDC Cable System for the EuroAsia Interconnector’ that can be found at www.euroasia-interconnector.com/procurement.</P></CRITERIA_CANDIDATE><NO_ACCEPTED_VARIANTS/><OPTIONS/><OPTIONS_DESCR><P>Details regarding options will be provided to qualified candidates in the tender documents.</P></OPTIONS_DESCR><EU_PROGR_RELATED><P>PCI 3.10</P></EU_PROGR_RELATED><INFO_ADD><P>EuroAsia Interconnector is a cluster Project of Common Interest (PCI 3.10) of the EU consisting of 2 PCIs:</P><P>— PCI 3.10.1: Israel-Cyprus,</P><P>— PCI 3.10.2: Cyprus-Greece (Crete).</P><P>The project has been approved for grants by CEF in 2 occasions (Action 3.10.1-0028-CY-S-M-14 and Action3.10.1-0004-CYEL-S-M-16).</P></INFO_ADD></OBJECT_DESCR><OBJECT_DESCR ITEM="4"><TITLE><P>Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation of the HVDC Cable System for Pole 2 of Link 2 — Cyprus-Greece (Crete)</P></TITLE><LOT_NO>4</LOT_NO><CPV_ADDITIONAL><CPV_CODE CODE="31321500"/></CPV_ADDITIONAL><n2016:NUTS CODE="CY0"/><n2016:NUTS CODE="EL"/><n2016:NUTS CODE="EL43"/><MAIN_SITE><P>Cyprus, Greece (Crete) and the Mediterranean basin between them.</P></MAIN_SITE><SHORT_DESCR><P>Engineering, procurement, construction and installation of the HVDC submarine cable system including all required joints for Pole 2 of Link 2. The distance between the sea/land transition bays in Cyprus and Greece (Crete) is approximately 895 km and the submarine cable will be laid at a maximum water depth of 3 000 m.</P></SHORT_DESCR><AC><AC_PROCUREMENT_DOC/></AC><VAL_OBJECT CURRENCY="EUR">617000000.00</VAL_OBJECT><DURATION TYPE="MONTH">48</DURATION><NO_RENEWAL/><NB_ENVISAGED_CANDIDATE>1</NB_ENVISAGED_CANDIDATE><CRITERIA_CANDIDATE><P>The number of tenderers will not be limited to a maximum.</P><P>All qualified candidates satisfying the objective criteria will be invited to participate in the award stage of this negotiated procedure.</P><P>To qualify for participation in the award stage, objective criteria/requirements for the personal situation, the economic and financial standing and the technical and professional ability of the candidates must be satisfied. Details for the qualification requirements are provided in the ‘Invitation to Participate in Negotiated Process with prior Call for Competition’ for the Contract with title ‘Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation of the HVDC Cable System for the EuroAsia Interconnector’ that can be found at www.euroasia-interconnector.com/procurement.</P><P>Economic operators must request access to the Ariba platform used for this pre-qualification phase via email in order to submit a ‘Request to Participate’ in the process. Detailed information is available in the ‘Invitation to Participate in Negotiated Process with prior Call for Competition’ for the contract with title ‘Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation of the HVDC Cable System for the EuroAsia Interconnector’ that can be found at www.euroasia-interconnector.com/procurement.</P></CRITERIA_CANDIDATE><NO_ACCEPTED_VARIANTS/><OPTIONS/><OPTIONS_DESCR><P>Details regarding options will be provided to qualified candidates in the tender documents.</P></OPTIONS_DESCR><EU_PROGR_RELATED><P>PCI 3.10</P></EU_PROGR_RELATED><INFO_ADD><P>EuroAsia Interconnector is a cluster Project of Common Interest (PCI 3.10) of the EU consisting of 2 PCIs:</P><P>— PCI 3.10.1: Israel-Cyprus,</P><P>— PCI 3.10.2: Cyprus-Greece (Crete).</P><P>The project has been approved for grants by CEF in 2 occasions (Action 3.10.1-0028-CY-S-M-14 and Action 3.10.1-0004-CYEL-S-M-16).</P></INFO_ADD></OBJECT_DESCR></OBJECT_CONTRACT><LEFTI><SUITABILITY><P>Criteria as stated in the ‘Invitation to Participate in Negotiated Process with prior Call for Competition’ for the contract with title ‘Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation of the HVDC Cable System for the EuroAsia Interconnector’ that can be found at www.euroasia-interconnector.com/procurement.</P></SUITABILITY><ECONOMIC_CRITERIA_DOC/><TECHNICAL_CRITERIA_DOC/><RULES_CRITERIA><P>The objective rules and criteria for participation are described in the ‘Invitation to Participate in Negotiated Process with prior Call for Competition’ for the contract with title ‘Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation of the HVDC Cable System for the EuroAsia Interconnector’ that can be found at www.euroasia-interconnector.com/procurement.</P><P>It is noted that the contracting entity does not intend to limit the number of participants/tenderers to a maximum number and all qualified candidates will be invited to the award stage of the process.</P><P>The contracting entity reserves the right to perform inspections of a candidate's premises and/or work sites in order to verify the information given under this pre-qualification stage.</P></RULES_CRITERIA><DEPOSIT_GUARANTEE_REQUIRED><P>Submission of deposits and/or guarantees is not required during the pre-qualification stage. The participation guarantee required during the award stage as well as any other guarantees/deposits that will be required during the tender process and/or from the awarded tenderer/contractor will be defined in the tender documents that will be provided to qualified candidates.</P></DEPOSIT_GUARANTEE_REQUIRED><MAIN_FINANCING_CONDITION><P>Details will be provided in the tender documents that will be provided to qualified candidates.</P></MAIN_FINANCING_CONDITION><LEGAL_FORM><P>Consortia are not obliged to take a specific legal form in order to participate in the tender procedure. However, if applicable, the awarded consortium may be requested to take a specific legal form before the signing of the contract.</P><P>Interested economic operators should note that the awarded tenderer of any lot may be required to enter into an Interface Agreement with the awarded tenderers of the other lots and/or the awarded tenderers/contractors of the other procurement procedures related with the implementation of the EuroAsia Interconnector such as, but not limited to, those defined in Section II.1.4).</P></LEGAL_FORM></LEFTI><PROCEDURE><PT_NEGOTIATED_WITH_PRIOR_CALL/><REDUCTION_RECOURSE/><NO_CONTRACT_COVERED_GPA/><DATE_RECEIPT_TENDERS>2019-12-27</DATE_RECEIPT_TENDERS><TIME_RECEIPT_TENDERS>14:00</TIME_RECEIPT_TENDERS><DATE_DISPATCH_INVITATIONS>2020-01-10</DATE_DISPATCH_INVITATIONS><LANGUAGES><LANGUAGE VALUE="EN"/></LANGUAGES></PROCEDURE><COMPLEMENTARY_INFO><NO_RECURRENT_PROCUREMENT/><ADDRESS_REVIEW_BODY><OFFICIALNAME>Appeals Committee</OFFICIALNAME><ADDRESS>Quantum House: 25 Philippou Str., Agios Dometios</ADDRESS><TOWN>Nicosia</TOWN><POSTAL_CODE>2363</POSTAL_CODE><COUNTRY VALUE="CY"/><PHONE>+357 22792200</PHONE><E_MAIL>appeals@euroasia-interconnector.com</E_MAIL><FAX>+357 22776799</FAX></ADDRESS_REVIEW_BODY><REVIEW_PROCEDURE><P>Every economic operator being interested in the conclusion of a contract with the contracting entity shall be entitled to contest, by lodging an appeal, any enforceable act of the contracting entity related to the tender procedure which they consider as affecting their interests in an unlawful manner.</P><P>Every appeal, in accordance with the aforementioned, shall be lodged in writing against EuroAsia Interconnector Limited, and should be received within 15 calendar days from the next day of the notification of the appealed decision at the address mentioned in Section VI.4.1), and examined by the responsible Appeals Committee assigned by the contracting entity, who after examining the appeal, shall, as soon as possible, issue a justified decision that will be provided in writing to the party lodging the appeal.</P><P>If such time limit elapses inactive, it shall be inferred that the appeal has been dismissed.</P></REVIEW_PROCEDURE><DATE_DISPATCH_NOTICE>2019-11-22</DATE_DISPATCH_NOTICE></COMPLEMENTARY_INFO></F05_2014></FORM_SECTION></TED_EXPORT>