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France: Tenders/RTE Réseau de Transport d'Electricité/Curative maintenance of submarine HV cable links (Marine Operations)

  1. Competition notice published

    Nov 6, 8:25 AMNovember 6, 2026 8:25 AM

  2. Qualification deadline

    Dec 8, 10:00 AMDecember 8, 2026 10:00 AM

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Brief

Curative maintenance of submarine HV cable links (Marine Operations)

Qualification deadline
Dec 8,25 days left
Procedure
With negotiationTwo stages
Agreement
Framework agreementover 7 years

Brief

RTE Réseau de Transport d’Électricité is seeking a framework agreement for seven years for marine operations supporting curative maintenance of high-voltage submarine cable links across the English Channel/North Sea, Atlantic and Mediterranean. The services cover repair preparedness, engineering and offshore operations, including the provision of vessels, personnel, equipment and tools for interconnectors and offshore wind farm export cables, and must address HVAC and HVDC cable configurations, including dynamic and seabed-laid links. Cable jointing is excluded. This notice is a prequalification stage: selected applicants will be invited to a subsequent competitive tender, where RTE may shortlist tenderers for later rounds; award criteria will be specified in the tender documents.

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From the notice

  • RTE, the French electricity transmission system operator (TSO), is responsible for developing, building and operating high-voltage (HV) submarine cable links for interconnecting with neighboring countries, and for connecting offshore wind farms to its onshore transmission grid. RTE currently operates a wide range of submarine cable links on the Channel, Atlantic and Mediterranean facades. In the future, the number of submarine cable links shall further increase with the development of HVDC long distance submarine cable links to offshore wind farms. These submarine cable links can be dynamic (hanging from a platform) or static (laid on the sea floor). In this context, RTE is preparing for curative maintenance of several submarine cable links of its current and future networks on the Channel, Atlantic and Mediterranean facades. Curative maintenance of RTE grid is to be planned for HVAC (including floating technology) tripolar cable, bundled HVDC (Two power cables and one fiber optic cable, connected with strapping systems) submarine cable links, unipolar HVDC (two cable in the same trench). By issuing the present Contract notice, RTE aims to identify and short-list potential candidates to perform marine operations activities related to a curative maintenance program of submarines HV cables. This marine operations activities shall encompass the means and personnel necessary to perform Offshore cable repair preparedness, engineering and operations, including provision of vessels, personnel and equipment/tools, for offshore wind farm export cables and interconnections in the English Channel / North Sea, in the Atlantic Ocean and in the Mediterranean Sea. The jointing operation is excluded from the scope of works/services. RTE is thus launching the present Contract notice to call for the application of economic operators with the technical expertise and resources necessary to carry out such services/works. The economic operators aiming to apply shall review and fulfill the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) available on RTE procurement portal BuyRTE (https://fournisseurs.buyrte.cloud-rte-france.com/portal/web/portal,login,mvc,MVCPortalLogin.vm). The applications of the present Contract notice will be evaluated and scored accordingly to the criteria defined in the PQQ. Only the Applicants selected, as a result of the assessment of the applications, will be invited to participate in the further competitive Tender to be published by RTE.Main features of the procedureDuring the further Tender, RTE shall be entitled to eliminate, at any time, any Tenderer(s) for non-compliance with the rules of the Tender and shall reserve the right to short-list the Tenderers to be invited to participate to any next Round of Submission.

  • Contact

    Nadim DHIFALLAHnadim.dhifallah@rte-france.com
  • Type
    Competition · Framework agreement · Prequalification
  • Main code
    Repair and maintenance services
    50000000
  • 31321500Submarine cable45314310Installation of cable laying50240000Repair, maintenance and associated services related to marine and other equipment60630000Cable-laying ship services76520000Offshore services76521000Offshore installation services76522000Offshore supply-vessel services98360000Marine services

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