The Employer, who operates the Port of Rønne, wishes to undertake an expansion of the port in order to secure that the port's capacity satisfies the anticipated needs of future traffic, commercial and cruise vessels. The expansion will also cover the laying of new and bigger land areas. The expansion is expected to cover the port's needs at least 30 years into the future.

This contract concerns the expansion of the Port of Rønne — Phase 1.

The contract is valued at approx. 500 000 000 DKK.

The procurement material is freely accessible through www.roennehavn.dk (direct link https://ftp.niras.net andftp://FRK-01:4bn2wkn4@ftp.niras.net). Applicants must click on the link to the FTP-server and use the following information to be taken to the procurement material:

User: FRK-01

Password: 4bn2wkn4.

The tender is carried out as a negotiated procedure.

The Employer expects to pre-qualify 5 tenderers but reserves the right to pre-qualify fewer.

After receiving initial tenders, with the deadline for submission being 7 August 2017, the Employer can choose to proceed in 2 ways:

1. The Employer evaluates the compliant tenders based on the award criterions (section 9) to identify the most economically advantageous tender.

or

2. The Employer will invite tenderers (that have submitted a compliant tender) to a negotiation round, cf. below.

To the extent that the Employer chooses to conduct negotiations, the Employer expects the negotiation procedure to be conducted as follows:

1. Submission of initial/negotiation tender by the tenderers;

2. Individual meetings with the tenderers;

3. Submission of:

a. BAFO, or, if necessary,

b. A revised tender.

4. Evaluation and contract award.

The Employer reserves the right to award the contract to a tenderer based solely on the first tender and any subsequent tenders without conducting (further) negotiations.

All tenders are binding.

Reference is made to the procurement material, including the Tender Conditions.