This notice relates to the publication of a:  CONTRACT NOTICE - UTILITIES 
Excerpt from the official text.


I.1. Name and addresses

Official name: Fluxys LNG
Postal address: Guimardstraat 4,BE-1040 Brussel
Contact person: Frédéric Tilmans
Phone: +32 22827858
E-mail: procurement@fluxys.com
Internet address(es): http://www.fluxys.com https://enot.publicprocurement.be/enot-war/preViewNotice.do?noticeId=402035



II.1. Scope of the procurement

II.1.1. Title
Production and Delivery of four (4) Plate Heat Exchangers (PHE) for the LNG Terminal in Zeebrugge (Belgium), and provision of services and spare parts for the commissioning and start-up, the 2 first years of Operation and Capital 
Reference number: Fluxys LNG-CEAPN2104-F05_0
II.1.2. Main CPV code: 42511100KA06
II.1.3. Type of contract: supplies
II.1.4. Short description
Contract with one supplier for the Production and Delivery of four (4) Plate Heat Exchangers (PHE) for the LNG Terminal in Zeebrugge (Belgium), and provision of services and spare parts for the commissioning and start-up, the 2 first years of Operation and Capital
II.1.6. Information about lots
Division per lots: NO


II.2. Description

II.2.3. Place of performance
NUTS code(s): BE2
Main place of performance: LNG Terminal Fluxys in Zeebrugge (Belgium)
II.2.4. Description
Production and Delivery of four (4) Plate Heat Exchangers (PHE) for the LNG Terminal in Zeebrugge (Belgium), and provision of services and spare parts for the commissioning and start-up, the 2 first years of Operation and Capital 
II.2.7. Duration
12 month(s)
Renewal possible: NO



III.1. Conditions for participation


III.1.2 Economic and financial standing
List and brief description of selection criteria:
The candidate must have the necessary economic and financial standing to perform the contract. 1) Proof of the candidate's economic and financial standing may be furnished by one or more of the following references:- the presentation of financial statements or extracts from the financial statements, where publication of financial statements is required under the law of the country in which the economic operator is established;- a statement of the economic operator's overall turnover of the last three financial years available, depending on the date on which the undertaking was set up or the economic operator started trading.2) The candidate must also provide evidence of relevant professional risk indemnity insurance.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required:
1) The candidate must have an minimum turnover of at least 1,4 M EUR in the last 3 years. This criterion applies to the candidate as a whole, i.e. through the combined capacity of all members of the group in case of a group of economic operators.
In addition, the ratio between assets and liabilities must be above 1.2. This criterion applies to each member of the group in case of a group of economic operators.
2) The relevant professional risk indemnity insurance must have a minimum coverage of 1.250 K EUR

III.1.3 Technical and professional ability
List and brief description of selection criteria:
The candidate must have the necessary technical and professional ability to perform the contract. Proof of the candidate's ability must be furnished by the following means :Criterion 1: a list of minimum 3 realised projects with plate heat exchangers for seawater and/or brackish water out over the past 5 years since the date of publication. The information is asked in a form of a table with the following columns:- Short project description,- Customer company name (+ contact data),- Project location,- Year of start-up of project,- Year of setting into service,- Type of water (seawater, brackish water),- Explanation about the customer satisfaction with the outcome of the project (Certificate of satisfactory execution and outcome of this customer is not requested).Only projects taken into account by the Owner in this criterion are those with a seawater or brackish water.Criterion 2: Information about Quality Assurance The economic operator must prove that he has a quality assurance management process in place. The document to be issued is as follows :- OR an ISO-9001 certificate from an accredited body;- OR any other certificate from an accredited body of a quality assurance system based on the Quality Standards;- OR any other evidence of Quality Assurance measures, in which case the burden of proof of the equivalence of these measures lies with the economic operator.

Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required:
Class: N/A, Category: N/A

III.2 Conditions related to the contract

III.2.2 Contract performance conditions:
See 'Invitation To Tender'




IV.1.4 Information about reduction of the number of solutions or tenders during negotiation or dialogue
Recourse to staged procedure to gradually reduce the number of solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiated: YES

IV.1.8 Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by GPA: NO

IV.2 ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
IV.2.2 Due date for receipt of expressions of interest 2021-04-11 23:59
IV.2.3 Estimated date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates
2021-04-14
IV.2.4 Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted:  EN




VI.3. Additional information
The request to participate and its annexes have to be uploaded by the candidate on the Fluxys Sourcing Invitation Platform (as specified under I.3) Communication).Each candidate will have to request via the contact person as per I access to the appropriate protected folder on this Sourcing Invitation Platform. New candidates to this platform will also receive their password and instructions for access.From receipt of the request to participate until execution of the contract Fluxys Belgium may ask tenderers and candidates at any moment during the procedure to submit all or part of the supporting documents as requested in this contract notice. In any event, prior to awarding the contract, Fluxys Belgium will require the bidder to which it has decided to award the contract to submit up-to-date supporting documents.The requests to participate shall clearly mention the candidate's full name, including the company number, VAT number, full address and legal form.Requests to participate must be structured as follows:1. Name of Bidder 2. Legal form of company 3. Date of registration 4. Country of registration 5. Registration number 6. VAT number 7. Registered address of company 8. Person(s) authorised to sign contracts (together or alone) on behalf of the company[Surname, forename, title (e.g. Dr, Mr, Ms), function (e.g. Manager.) ]9. Contact person for this Bid:[Surname, forename, title (e.g. Dr, Mr, Ms), function (e.g. Manager.) Telephone number, fax number, address, e-mail]10. European Standard Procurement Document (ESPD)11. Requested information about each abovementioned selection criterium.The candidates must fill in the European Single Procurement Document (ESPD) at the following address: https://dume.publicprocurement.be/The following parts and questions of the ESPD must be answered:- Part I (Information concerning the procurement procedure and the contracting entity);- Part II (Information concerning the economic operator);- Part III (Exclusion grounds);- Part IV (Selection criteria): economic operators will use Part IV, a, regarding the global indication for all selection criteria, whereby Fluxys shall verify, on the basis of the supporting documentation and information requested under section III, whether the economic operators meet the selection criteria as laid down under section III of this Contract Notice;- Part VI (Concluding statements).When filled in, the ESPD should be sent to Fluxys together with the request to participate.Where the economic operator relies on the capacities of other entities in order to prove its economic, financial, technical or professional capacity, it must also provide the ESPD in respect of such entities.Fluxys may ask tenderers and candidates at any moment during the procedure to submit all or part of the supporting documents. In any event, before awarding the contract, Fluxys will require the tenderer to which it has decided to award the contract to submit up-to-date supporting documents.The supporting documents that the tenderers and candidates must be able to provide upon request and without delay are the documents to be provided under section III of this contract notice.The European Commission's FAQ on the ESPD is available at the following address: https://ec.europa.eu/docsroom/documents/17242/attachments/1/translations/en/renditions/native.Note regarding SECTION II.2.7: we are obliged by the public procurement platform to define a duration of the contract, but the duration will be defined by each supplier in its bid according to the lead time of its equipment.

VI.4 Procedures for review

VI.4.1 Review body
President of the Court of First Instance Brussels
Rue des Quatre Bras 13, BE-1000 Brussels

VI.4.2 Body responsible for mediation procedures
President of the Court of First Instance Brussels
Rue des Quatre Bras 13, BE-1000 Brussels

VI.4.4 Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
President of the Court of First Instance Brussels
Rue des Quatre Bras 13, BE-1000 Brussels

VI.5 Date of dispatch of this notice
2021-03-10