It is intended that the scope of work will cover two lots:
- The engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of the PRT; and
- The EPC of an approximately 8 km long, 36 inch diameter high-pressure pipeline, running from the first dry weld at the landfall in Italy to the scraper trap located in the PRT.
The PRT will receive natural gas from the pipeline offshore section and host the supervisory and control centre of TAP. The PRT will be integrated into the surrounding landscape and have limited visual impact on the area. The facility will connect to the Snam Rete Gas network.
Specific details of the contract notice can be found in the Supplement of Official Journal of the EU – Tenders Electronic Daily.
The deadline for companies to request the pre-qualification questionnaire is 7 April 2015. Following the selection stage, TAP aims to issue the related invitations to tender for onshore construction in Italy by 22 April 2015.
TAP Procurement Director Knut Steinar Kvindesland said “With the launch of this pre-qualification notice, TAP is now in the market to secure EPC services for building the pipeline all the way from Kipoi, Greece, through to southern Italy. Our selection process remains transparent, rigorous and with particular an emphasis on meeting health, safety and environment standards as well as a proven commitment to TAP’s zero harm policy.”
Further information on TAP’s procurement process and the contracts that it plans to award is available to companies. If you are a subcontractor and are interested in working for one of the companies that TAP selects for its contracts, please register your details, which will be passed on to companies invited to tender in TAP’s procurement process.
TAP will transport natural gas from the giant Shah Deniz II field in Azerbaijan to Europe. The approximately 870 km long pipeline will connect with the Trans Anatolian Pipeline at the Turkish-Greek border at Kipoi, cross Greece and Albania and the Adriatic Sea, before coming ashore in Southern Italy.