SOLICITATION NOTICE
B -- Romania - Emissions Monitoring and Plant Performance Improvement Feasibility Study Project
- Notice Date
- 2/24/2006
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541690
— Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- United States Trade and Development Agency, USTDA, USTDA, 1000 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1600, C/O US TDA 1000 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1600, Arlington, VA, 22209-3901
- ZIP Code
- 22209-3901
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-0681011A
- Response Due
- 3/28/2006
- Archive Date
- 4/12/2006
- Description
- POC Evangela Kunene, USTDA, 1000 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1600, Arlington, VA 22209-3901, Tel: (703) 875-4357, Fax: (703) 875-4009. PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT CONTRACTS OFFICE. PROPOSAL SUBMISSION PLACE: Mr. Radu Ion, Technical Director, SC Termoelectrica SA, 103 Lacul Tei Blvd., Bucharest, 020371, Romania, Phone: 40-21-303-7503, Fax: 40-21-303-7503. Emissions Monitoring and Plant Performance Improvement Feasibility Study Project. The Grantee invites submission of qualifications and proposal data (collectively referred to as the "Proposal") from interested U.S. firms which are qualified on the basis of experience and capability to develop a feasibility study for to determine the preferred method for upgrading the controls and monitoring systems at 21 of SC Termoelectrica SA?s largest power plants. SC Termoelectrica SA is the largest power generation enterprise in Romania. It is a 100% state-owned joint stock company. The firm was founded in 2000, when the former vertically integrated National Electricity Company was split into four independent entities. This was part of a phased program to transfer ownership of the major components of the Romanian power sector from state control to private ownership. Termoelectrica currently owns and operates six power plants with a total capacity of 3705 MW. (Termoelectrica is also the sole shareholder of the independently managed Electorcentrale Bucuresti, the principal district heating supplier in Bucharest and operator of seven additional generating plants with a combined capacity of 2010 MW.) The six power plants that are directly controlled by Termoelectrica are located at sites around the country at distances varying from 60 to 200 miles away from Bucharest. The generating units at these plants vary from 60 to 300 MW in size. The oldest was commissioned in 1969 and the newest unit in 1984. Termoelectrica has been gradually upgrading and modernizing their power plants, replacing a legacy of aging and obsolete controls and monitoring equipment with modern computer-based distributed controls systems. The approaching deadline for the country?s accession into the European Union (EU) has created a situation that now requires Termoelectrica to act quickly in making major improvements in their stack emissions monitoring equipment and plant performance supervisory systems. As a condition of its admission to the EU, Romania has agreed to limit the levels of pollutants from its major industrial facilities to the standards that have been stipulated for all EU member countries. The EU has established a broad list of limits for air, water and other pollutants that result from power generation (e.g. sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOX), carbon dioxide (CO2)), along with strict requirements for measuring and reporting the levels of pollutants originating at each significant source. According to this directive, the operators of all large combustion plants have the obligation to continuously monitor emissions and report the levels to regulators in Bucharest and Brussels. A second condition of Romania?s agreement to join the EU involves the commitment to open the country?s electricity market to competition from power producers in all EU member states. This means that in 2007 Termoelectrica will have to compete with other European producers in the Romanian power market. It also means that to survive as a viable power producer, it must prepare to sell into the spot markets in the European grid, where prices vary on a daily basis. This will require Termoelectrica to monitor the thermal efficiency of its plants and other variables that affect the cost of power production on a real-time basis. This capability will be needed for them to effectively compete in the daily auction process that sets electricity pricing and power plant dispatching throughout the EU. Termoelectrica lacks the level of control and monitoring technology needed to meet these requirements. Therefore, to remedy these deficiencies, Termoelectrica is planning to acquire advanced continuous emissions monitoring systems, and plant performance and analysis systems in all of their plants. They are also planning to install a wide-area communications network that will link all of the plants with the headquarters office. This will enable plant dispatchers and financial managers to continuously observe and evaluate critical technical and economic information from all of the plants, and to make coordinated adjustments in day to day plant operations to minimize their power production costs. The proposed feasibility study would analyze and determine the best plan to upgrade and implement these new systems. The study would evaluate an array of specialized subsystems, incorporating both equipment and software that will be needed to implement the project. The objective of this Feasibility Study is to analyze and determine the best plan/methodology to upgrade the emissions monitoring and control systems at 21 of SC Termoelectrica SA?s largest power plants in Romania. This will be done through: data gathering, developing baseline data for the units, developing optimization methodology, assessing the compatibility of existing European Union standards and environmental impact, assessing developmental impact, defining the project scope packages, determining the least cost option, developing an implementation plan, developing a detailed cost estimate, and preparing performance-based engineer, and procure and construct (EPC) bidding documents. The U.S. firm selected will be paid in U.S. dollars from a $271,054 grant to the Grantee from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA). A detailed Request for Proposals (RFP), which includes requirements for the Proposal, the Terms of Reference, and a background definitional mission report are available from USTDA, at 1000 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1600, Arlington, VA 22209-3901. Requests for the RFP should be faxed to the IRC, USTDA at 703-875-4009. In the fax, please include your firm?s name, contact person, address, and telephone number. Some firms have found that RFP materials sent by U.S. mail do not reach them in time for preparation of an adequate response. Firms that want USTDA to use an overnight delivery service should include the name of the delivery service and your firm's account number in the request for the RFP. Firms that want to send a courier to USTDA to retrieve the RFP should allow one hour after faxing the request to USTDA before scheduling a pick-up. Please note that no telephone requests for the RFP will be honored. Please check your internal fax verification receipt. Because of the large number of RFP requests, USTDA cannot respond to requests for fax verification. Requests for RFPs received before 4:00 PM will be mailed the same day. Requests received after 4:00 PM will be mailed the following day. Please check with your courier and/or mail room before calling USTDA. Only U.S. firms and individuals may bid on this USTDA financed activity. Interested firms, their subcontractors and employees of all participants must qualify under USTDA's nationality requirements as of the due date for submission of qualifications and proposals and, if selected to carry out the USTDA-financed activity, must continue to meet such requirements throughout the duration of the USTDA-financed activity. All goods and services to be provided by the selected firm shall have their nationality, source and origin in the U.S. or host country. The U.S. firm may use subcontractors from the host country for up to 20 percent of the USTDA grant amount. Details of USTDA's nationality requirements and mandatory contract clauses are also included in the RFP. Interested U.S. firms should submit their Proposal in English directly to the Grantee by 4:00 PM, March 28, 2006 at the above address. Evaluation criteria for the Proposal are included in the RFP. Price will not be a factor in contractor selection, and therefore, cost proposals should NOT be submitted. The Grantee reserves the right to reject any and/or all Proposals. The Grantee also reserves the right to contract with the selected firm for subsequent work related to the project. The Grantee is not bound to pay for any costs associated with the preparation and submission of Proposals.
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