Tennet "General Liability Offshore"
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Forsikringstjenester
General description: TenneT has an insurance program (“Offshore Liability Policy”) in place covering third party liabilities of TenneT Offshore GmbH & TenneT TSO B.V. and its subsidiaries against personal injury, property damage and financial loss. TenneT intends to procure insurance cover personal injury, property damage and financial loss with a new Offshore Liability Policy (policy inception date 1st July 2025). The GL Offshore Program (General Liability Offshore) includes: - Offshore third party liability insurance for all current (in operation phase) and future German and Dutch offshore grid connection systems as currently insured in the Offshore Liability policy - Liability from operating NorNed, Cobra, NordLink and possible future interconnectors are insured under the Onshore liability insurance. The insurance program shall cover a capacity of EUR 250m and will be structured in a Primary policy (40 Mio. EUR per loss and 80 Mio. EUR in the annual aggregate) and an 1. additional Excess layer (30 Mio. EUR) and an 2. additional Excess layer (40 Mio. EUR). In addition there is one extra layer to cover the property risk (insured limit up to EUR 100m per claim and in the annual aggregate) according to § 17g EnWG. Accordingly the tender will be set up in 2 lots, which will follow each other: Lot 1: Primary lead insurer + Property Lead insurer (Mercell tender T109513) Lot 2: Primary to-follow insurer + Property to-follow insurer + 1. Excess lead insurer + 2. Excess lead insurer + 1. Excess to-follow insurer + 2.Excess to-follow insurer (Mercell tender T109515) Access to tender / NDA In order to protect the confidentiality of the information provided by the client in the tender documents, it is mandatory to conclude a confidentiality Agreement as per "NDA" document provided for download via Mercell. Please send the signed and stamped copy to: Claudius.witte@tennet.eu After sending the NDA and a plausibility check by the Client, the Client will grant the interested parties access to the tender by Email. After registering for the tender at Mercell Source-to-Contract, you will find all tender documents for the call for competition phase as well as the offer phase under "Questionnaires", section "Call for Competition", question 1.1. "General information - tender documents - lots". The bidder can not deduce eligibility for participation only from signing and submitting the NDA. TenneT will only accept tenderers who successfully qualify during the call for competition phase to participate in the offer phase. The application for the call for competition must be submitted in due time and no later than by 29.11.2024 at 12:00 CET via the e-Award platform Mercell Source-to-Contract. Individual extensions of time will not be granted. Please start your upload process early enough. Submission of the request to participate (applications) by Email, mail or fax are not permitted. A violation of this requirement will lead to disqualification of the applicant and exclusion from the tender process. Please make sure to familiarize yourself with the Schedule, Questionnaires, Messages section and the Q&A section early enough and thoroughly read through all relevant documents. The Questionnaire for the call for competition phase itself can only be conducted after providing the NDA and registering for this tender. The Questionnaire for the offer phase becomes accessible only after successful completion of the call for competition phase. In case of technical problems, please contact us and the Mercell helpdesk: Mercell-Support Technical questions regarding the use of Mercell can be sent directly to the Mercell-ServiceDesk: ServiceDesk Mercell - support-nl@mercell.com Phone number +31 (0)85-001 4593 opening hours 09.00 - 17.00 (CET) Documents NDA Procedual Guidelines
About the bid
- Contact name
- Claudius Witte
- Contact phone
- +495132891198
- Contact email
- claudius.witte@tennet.eu
- Address
- Bernecker Straße 70, 95448 Bayreuth
General description: TenneT has an insurance program (“Offshore Liability Policy”) in place covering third party liabilities of TenneT Offshore GmbH & TenneT TSO B.V. and its subsidiaries against personal injury, property damage and financial loss. TenneT intends to procure insurance cover personal injury, property damage and financial loss with a new Offshore Liability Policy (policy inception date 1st July 2025). The GL Offshore Program (General Liability Offshore) includes: - Offshore third party liability insurance for all current (in operation phase) and future German and Dutch offshore grid connection systems as currently insured in the Offshore Liability policy - Liability from operating NorNed, Cobra, NordLink and possible future interconnectors are insured under the Onshore liability insurance. The insurance program shall cover a capacity of EUR 250m and will be structured in a Primary policy (40 Mio. EUR per loss and 80 Mio. EUR in the annual aggregate) and an 1. additional Excess layer (30 Mio. EUR) and an 2. additional Excess layer (40 Mio. EUR). In addition there is one extra layer to cover the property risk (insured limit up to EUR 100m per claim and in the annual aggregate) according to § 17g EnWG. Accordingly the tender will be set up in 2 lots, which will follow each other: Lot 1: Primary lead insurer + Property Lead insurer (Mercell tender T109513) Lot 2: Primary to-follow insurer + Property to-follow insurer + 1. Excess lead insurer + 2. Excess lead insurer + 1. Excess to-follow insurer + 2.Excess to-follow insurer (Mercell tender T109515) Access to tender / NDA In order to protect the confidentiality of the information provided by the client in the tender documents, it is mandatory to conclude a confidentiality Agreement as per "NDA" document provided for download via Mercell. Please send the signed and stamped copy to: Claudius.witte@tennet.eu After sending the NDA and a plausibility check by the Client, the Client will grant the interested parties access to the tender by Email. After registering for the tender at Mercell Source-to-Contract, you will find all tender documents for the call for competition phase as well as the offer phase under "Questionnaires", section "Call for Competition", question 1.1. "General information - tender documents - lots". The bidder can not deduce eligibility for participation only from signing and submitting the NDA. TenneT will only accept tenderers who successfully qualify during the call for competition phase to participate in the offer phase. The application for the call for competition must be submitted in due time and no later than by 29.11.2024 at 12:00 CET via the e-Award platform Mercell Source-to-Contract. Individual extensions of time will not be granted. Please start your upload process early enough. Submission of the request to participate (applications) by Email, mail or fax are not permitted. A violation of this requirement will lead to disqualification of the applicant and exclusion from the tender process. Please make sure to familiarize yourself with the Schedule, Questionnaires, Messages section and the Q&A section early enough and thoroughly read through all relevant documents. The Questionnaire for the call for competition phase itself can only be conducted after providing the NDA and registering for this tender. The Questionnaire for the offer phase becomes accessible only after successful completion of the call for competition phase. In case of technical problems, please contact us and the Mercell helpdesk: Mercell-Support Technical questions regarding the use of Mercell can be sent directly to the Mercell-ServiceDesk: ServiceDesk Mercell - support-nl@mercell.com Phone number +31 (0)85-001 4593 opening hours 09.00 - 17.00 (CET) Documents NDA Procedual GuidelinesMain features of the procedureGeneral description can be found in the openly accessible document "Procedure Guidelines.pdf", which can be downloaded from the tender page. Additionally, following specific tender procedure to tender an insurance policy will be applied: Tender procedure (Call for Competition procedure) TenneT is a “contracting entity” subject to the Public Procurement Act 2012. The notice for this Call for Competition will be published via tender platform Mercell Source-to-Contract to the Official Journal of the European Union available at http://ted.europa.eu. The Call for Competition will be based on the negotiated procedure with prior publication, which means that initially an interested market party may apply as a Candidate. The tender will be tendered in 2 lots and candidates may apply for all 2 lots separately or for all 2 lots together. Lot 1: Primary lead insurer + Property Lead insurer (T109513) Lot 2: Primary to-follow insurer + Property to-follow insurer + 1. Excess lead insurer + 2. Excess lead insurer + 1. Excess to-follow insurer + 2. Excess to-follow insurer (T109515) The tender itself is characterized by seven phases. In the selection phase (phase 1), suppliers are selected for lot 1and/or lot 2. In phase 2 selected suppliers for lot 1 are invited to submit an initial offer. After assessing the initial tenders, all parties for lot 1, who handed in an initial offer, are allowed to proceed to the negotiation phase (phase 3) according the BIPAR principle. No further selection will take place during the negotiations. After completion of the negotiations, all parties are invited to bring out a best and final offer (BAFO) for lot 1 (phase 4). While awarding lot 1 all parties for lot 2 are invited to submit an initial offer (phase 5). After assessing the initial tenders, all parties for lot 2, who handed in an initial offer, are allowed to proceed to the negotiation phase (phase 6). No further selection will take place during the negotiations. After completion of the negotiations, all parties are invited to bring out a best and final offer (BAFO) for lot 2 (phase 7). Methodology of offer/BAFO-evaluation The tenders/bids will be evaluated and on the basis of the award criteria provided under section 5.1.9. of the EU announcement. The awarding criterion used in the Initial Offer Phase and the BAFO Phase is Lowest Price. The BAFO must be based on the final policy wording. The tenderer must substantiate its initial tender based on the tender documentation including the draft policy wording by means of: ■ premium net of commission or brokerage ■ maximum share which Tenderer is able and willing to accept within her own treaty capacity (the minimum share for lot 1 must be 25%). The lowest price award criterion is used because the Offshore Liability insurance which is the subject of this tender can be seen a market standard product. Based on the knowledge of the contracting entity of the insurance market the contracting entity concluded that only a limited number of insurers is capable of underwriting an Offshore Liability insurance of this size. The tenderd will be proceeded according the BIPAR principle*. Since the wording will be customised during the negotiation phase of this tender and all insurers will use the defined wording during the BAFO phase there are very little differentiators between the qualified insurers left therefore only the premium (lowest price) will be used as award criterium. * BIPAR: (Bureau International des Producteurs d'Assurance et de Réassurance, the European Federation of Insurance Brokers), which requires that the Leading Insurer determines the price and/or the terms. Deviations above or below by Following Insurers apply only to their respective shares. A Following Insurer determines neither the premium nor the terms for the other insurers involved.
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Award Criteria
Description
The awarding criterion used in the Initial Offer Phase and the BAFO Phase is Lowest Price. The BAFO must be based on the final policy wording. The lowest price award criterion is used because the Offshore Liability insurance which is the subject of this tender can be seen as a market standard product. Based on the knowledge of the contracting entity of the insurance market the contracting entity concluded that only a limited number of insurers is capable of underwriting an Offshore liability insurance of this size. Since the wording will be customised during the negotiation phase of this tender and all insurers will use the defined wording during the BAFO phase there are very little differentiators between the qualified insurers left therefore only the premium (lowest price) will be used as award criterium. TenneT holds the right to share the terms & conditions (share & premium) of the awarded leading insurer for the primary (Lot 1) with all participants of the following lots (Lot 2) but is not obliged to do so. * BIPAR: (Bureau International des Producteurs d'Assurance et de Réassurance, the European Federation of Insurance Brokers), which requires that the Leading Insurer determines the price and/or the terms. Deviations above or below by Following Insurers apply only to their respective shares. A Following Insurer determines neither the premium nor the terms for the other insurers involved.
Qualification requirements
Description
The candidate must be in sound financial health to assure the continuity of service provisioning throughout the term of the contract or (framework) agreement. In order to demonstrate sufficient economic performance, the applicants needs to prove a Standard & Poor's, Fitch and/or Moody's rating which shall have no single long term credit rating lower than BBB+ and Baa1 (BBB+ from either Standard & Poor's or Fitch and/or Baa1 from Moody's).
Documentation Requirement
The applicant confirms its acceptance of these provisions and that it complies with the respective rating as stated above. Furthermore the applicant agrees that TenneT's broker is allowed to check/verify applicant's confirmation. As soon as the documentary evidence is requested, the applicant must send the documentary evidence by E-Mail within five days.
Description
In particular and in order to guarantee a proper claims settlement, a minimum annual turnover for lead insurer of at least Mio. EUR 300 must be existent for the past three financial years. The turnover must originate from services that are comparable to the services to be provided, e.g. underwriting activities. In the case of a bidder consortium the aforementioned sales are based on the cumulative turnover of the consortium partners. For each individual bidder or consortium partner, the total turnover of the group is deemed to be 100% owned by the group parent company.
Documentation Requirement
The applicant confirms its acceptance of these provisions. Furthermore the applicant agrees that TenneT's broker is allowed to check/verify applicant's confirmation. As soon as the documentary evidence is requested, the applicant must send the documentary evidence by E-Mail within five days.
Description
In particular and in order to guarantee a proper claims settlement, a minimum annual turnover for insurer of at least Mio. EUR 100 must be existent for the past three financial years. The turnover must originate from services that are comparable to the services to be provided, e.g. underwriting activities. In the case of a bidder consortium the aforementioned sales are based on the cumulative turnover of the consortium partners. For each individual bidder or consortium partner, the total turnover of the group is deemed to be 100% owned by the group parent company.
Documentation Requirement
The applicant confirms its acceptance of these provisions. Furthermore the applicant agrees that TenneT's broker is allowed to check/verify applicant's confirmation. As soon as the documentary evidence is requested, the applicant must send the documentary evidence by E-Mail within five days.
Description
Is the applicant or bidding consortium making use of the capacities of another economic operator (3rd party) in order to meet the economic and financial minimum criteria according to section III.1.9? The 3rd party will be jointly and severally liable with the applicant in the event of a contract award in accordance with the scope of the suitability borrowing (form A3a). The 3rd party must fulfil the corresponding minimum criteria of this section III.1.9.
Documentation Requirement
The 3rd party must provide the extract from the commercial register and the form or a self-declaration on grounds for exclusion pursuant to Sections 123, 124 GWB (form A7). The forms provided in Mercell for the suitability borrowing as well as the corresponding forms for the fulfilment of the further minimum criteria have to be used.
Description
The applicant has to complete, sign and upload the attached Form A1. The application as a bidding consortium is admitted. A bidding consortium is treated like an individual applicant (Section 50 para. 2 SektVO). If applicants are addressed in the tender documents, this also refers to the joint form of participation of a bidding consortium. In this respect, regulations which specifically are related to bidding consortia, exclusively use the term "Bidding Consortium." The bidding consortium shall nominate an authorized representative for the conclusion and implementation of the contract and who signs form A1. The authorized representative shall be available to the contracting entity as the contact person of the bidding consortium in this tendering procedure. Members of the bidding consortium shall jointly complete the form "Statement of Bidding Consortium" (Form A2), which also names the authorized representative.
Documentation Requirement
If applicable, please complete, sign and upload the attached Form A2.
Description
Please provide a proof of Registration in a commercial register of the relevant authority of the country in which the company is established (e. g. Kamer van Koophandel (NL), Handelsregister (DE), Companies house (UK), erhvervsstyrelsen (DK), Companies registration office (IE)).
Documentation Requirement
The proof may not be older than three months at the date of the submission of the application.
Description
Please confirm that no grounds for exclusion under §§ 123, 124 GWB exist. For bidding consortia this statement must be valid for all members of the bidding consortium.
Documentation Requirement
The applicant confirms its acceptance of these provisions. Furthermore the applicant agrees that TenneT's broker is allowed to check/verify applicant's confirmation. As soon as the documentary evidence is requested, the applicant must send the documentary evidence by E-Mail within five days. Please find an English version of this law under the following link: http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_gwb/englisch_gwb.html#p1314
Description
The applicant must be able to evidence the relevant authorization in accordance with legislation and regulation of insurance companies in the countries where the tenderer is established, e. g. FSA (UK), BaFin (GE) or WFT (NL).
Documentation Requirement
The candidate confirms its acceptance of these provisions. Furthermore the applicant agrees that TenneT's broker is allowed to check/verify applicant's confirmation. As soon as the documentary evidence is requested, the applicant must send the documentary evidence by E-Mail within five days.
Description
The applicant for Lot 1 leading insurer is required to perform the contract as stated in the tender documentation. To demonstrate that the applicant is capable of ensuring several similar Offshore liability businesses and the applicant has these capabilities, the applicant must submit 1 reference for (parts of) comparable contracts performed by the applicant in the three 3 years preceding the application date, which is not prior to January 1, 2022. Applicant for Lot 1 leading insurer should have proven experience in underwriting offshore liability insurances as leader and/ or Co-leader with the following specifics: Policy description, Company name, Start and end date of contract, Policy limit should be as minimum 40 Mio. EUR, Written lead and/or Co-lead share should be in excess of 25%.
Documentation Requirement
The applicant confirms its acceptance of these provisions. Furthermore the applicant agrees that TenneT's broker is allowed to check/verify applicant's confirmation. As soon as the documentary evidence is requested, the applicant must send the documentary evidence by E-Mail within five days.
Description
The candidate must have qualified employed staff which means that requested employed staff is in the possession of relevant qualification as required by the local authorities (e. g. FSA in the UK and BaFin in Germany, AFM in the Netherland). Applicants for lead insurer confirms to have employed staff of: at least 1 qualified underwriters with at least 3 years of experience in underwriting of offshore liability business insurances of large infrastructural projects. at least 1 qualified claims handlers with at least 3 years of experience in claims handling of offshore liability business insurances of large infrastructural projects. applicant must have those positions filled during the duration of this policy.
Documentation Requirement
The applicant confirms its acceptance of these provisions. Furthermore the applicant agrees that TenneT's broker is allowed to check/verify applicant's confirmation. As soon as the documentary evidence is requested, the applicant must send the documentary evidence by E-Mail within five days.
Description
The candidate must have qualified employed staff which means that requested employed staff is in the possession of relevant qualification as required by the local authorities (e. g. FSA in the UK and BaFin in Germany, AFM in the Netherland). Applicants for lead insurer confirms to have employed staff of: at least 1 qualified employee with at least 3 years of experience in underwriting of offshore liability business insurances of large infrastructural projects. applicant must have those positions filled during the duration of this policy.
Documentation Requirement
The applicant confirms its acceptance of these provisions. Furthermore the applicant agrees that TenneT's broker is allowed to check/verify applicant's confirmation. As soon as the documentary evidence is requested, the applicant must send the documentary evidence by E-Mail within five days.
Description
Is the applicant or bidding consortium referring to the suitability of another economic operator (3rd party) in order to meet the technical minimum criteria according to section III.1.9?
Documentation Requirement
The 3rd party has to submit a confirmation that he will make his technical capability available in the event of a contract award (form A3b). Furthermore, detailed information on the 3rd party must be provided (form A1). In addition, the respective 3rd party must submit a self-declaration that there are no grounds for exclusion pursuant to Sections 123 and 124 of the GWB (form A7). The technical borrowing qualification can be provided by several potential 3rd parties for the fulfilment of the selection criteria.
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- Contracting authority
- TenneT Offshore GmbH
- Title
- Tennet "General Liability Offshore"
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- Estimated value
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