Description of the contract
Celtic Sea Power are looking to appoint a specialist to provide technical input into the scope of work for a later Onshore Surveys ITT which will be for a full suite of onshore surveys as set out in the Scoping report and response from NRW found at the following link https://publicregister.naturalresources.wales/Search/Download?RecordId=139646
The surveys routes are currently dependent on the output of the Electricity System Operators, Holistic Network Design Follow Up Exercise, which is due to be announced in June 2023. However, for the purposes of this tender, bidders will be asked to provide a fixed fee for their proposals on the routes included in Figure 2 below (the shape files of these can be found in Appendix 2) and based on the assumptions listed below.
• Assumption 1 – Surveys will be carried out in a similar time window.
• Assumption 2 – CSP will secure landowner agreement to access land for survey purposes.
The output of this commission should be suite of documents that covers the full survey methodology for each survey undertaken, a completed Bill of Quantities with P80 budgets for each route and provision of all survey data in both raw and PDF Plan format.
Work Package A: Review Scoping Opinion comments from NRW.
The primary purpose of this work package is to review the Scoping Report and Scoping Opinion from NRW in relation to the onshore survey scope.
The output of this review is to ensure that all survey requirements contained within the Scoping Report and NRW's response is accounted for in the Service Specification.
The Successful bidder will be required to provide CSP with confirmation in writing that the outputs meet both the scoping report and the comments made in NRW’s response. All files are available on the NRW Website.
Work Package B: Service specification for the scope of work for all required Onshore Surveys ITT
Working with the Survey and Consents Manager, the supplier will be expected to finalize the full scope of a survey campaign including types of survey, seasonal considerations, meeting of technical requirements, methodologies to adhere to, equipment and calibrations to be used, appropriateness of organisational structure and capability, health and safety and how the data will need to be presented. The completed scope will therefore be required to characterise the environmental aspects of the onshore export cable corridor area of the Electric Cable Corridor for EIA purposes in line with the expectations of the Owner and the Licensing Authority. This forms the main technical input to a future ITT that will see to procure the surveys as set out in this ITT. Celtic Sea Power require the supplier to provide the following support.
a. Support the Survey and Consents Manager to identify suitable Onshore Survey contractors.
Work Package C: PDZ Onshore Surveys Bill of Quantities for each route.
To enable CSP’s evaluation a Bidders' future response to later ITT, CSP will require the bidder to supply Onshore Surveys Bill of Quantities for each route, to be populated with a budget to P80 level of confidence in the MS Excel format.
Work Package D: Schedule in MS Project format
A required output of this commission will be for the successful bidder to provide specialist support in forecasting milestones for delivery, the timings of the surveys with suggested budgets and payment schedules. Therefore, a schedule of works will be required for the complete surveys campaign to characterise the environmental aspects of the onshore export cable corridor area of the Electric Cable Corridor for EIA purposes in line with the expectations of the Owner and the Licensing Authority in Microsoft Projects format.
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