United Kingdom-Sheffield: Chemical industry machinery

Type of document: Pre-information procedures
Country: United Kingdom
OJEU Ref: (15/S 218-397256/EN)
Nature of contract: Supply contract
Procedure: Not applicable
Regulation of procurement: EU – with participation by GPA countries
Award criteria: Not applicable
Type of bid required: Not applicable

Prior information notice without call for competition
Supplies
Directive 2004/18/EC
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1) Name addresses and contact point(s):
University of Sheffield
Procurement Office, Arts Tower, Western Bank
Sheffield
Postal code: S10 2TN
United Kingdom
For the attention of: Ms Y. Everitt
Phone: +44 1142222173
Email: y.everitt@sheffield.ac.uk
Internet Address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: www.in-tendhost.com/sheffield
Address of the buyer profile: www.sheffield.ac.uk/procurement
Further information can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)
I.2) Type of the contracting authority:
Body governed by public law
I.3) Main activity: Education
I.4) Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities/entities:
The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: No
Section II.B: Object of the contract (Supplies or services):
II.1) Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority/entity:
208/YE Pilot Plant PIN.
II.2) Type of contract and place of delivery or of performance:
Supplies
University of Sheffield.
Nuts code: UKE32
II.3) Information on framework agreement:
II.4) Short description of nature and quantity or value of suppliers or services:
The University of Sheffield is undertaking a Market Sounding Exercise to provide advance information and seek supply chain information prior to tendering for a new Chemical Engineering Pilot Plant. The Pilot Plant is to be housed in the University’s flagship Diamond building and is anticipated to be installed and commissioned in September 2016.
It is envisaged, but not finalised, that the following learning objectives will form the basis of the forthcoming tender:
— students will have experience of operating real, large scale chemical engineering equipment,
— students will understand health and safety issues in an operating environment typical of a chemical plant,
— students will be able to apply fundamental chemical engineering principles to working equipment, including:
Lot 1- Power to X pilot plant to convert renewable energy to environmentally friendly diesel fuel.
Lot 2 — High value manufacturing — continuous manufacture of pharmaceutical solid oral dosage forms.
Lot 3 — Industrial Control room.
This is not a call for tenders or a pre-qualification exercise. It is a market sounding exercise to provide advance information of requirements and open a dialogue with the supply chain. All expressions of Interest must be via the University e-tendering portal,
The contract is divided into lots: Yes. Tenders may be submitted for one or more lots
II.5) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV):
42993000, 42000000, 38400000, 38810000, 38000000, 38800000, 42900000, 42910000
II.6) Scheduled date for start of award procedures:
II.7) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): YES
II.8) Additional information:
This is not a call for tenders or a pre-qualification exercise. It is a market sounding exercise to provide advance information of requirements and open a dialogue with the supply chain. All expressions of Interest must be via the University e-tendering portal,
1. Register your company on the e-tendering portal In-tend:

2. Express an interest in the Pilot Plant project (market sourcing exercise), ref 208/YE
3. Further details will be provided to suppliers who have expressed an interest in the project.
4. Submit market sounding questions and responses via the IN-tend portal.
5. Suppliers registered as part of this PIN 208/YE will also be advised through the e-tendering portal when the formal Pilot Plant tender is advertised.

Information about lots

Lot No: 1; Lot title: Lot 1 — Power to X pilot plant to convert renewable energy to environmentally friendly diesel fuel
1) Short description: The Power to X pilot plant will be the first example of a cradle to grave approach to liquid fuels at an educational institution that is specific to the undergraduate curriculum. Students will take CO2 either from bottles or directly from the urban air outside the Diamond and water from a mains supply. Solid oxide co-electrolysis of the two feeds will give syngas and the composition optimized by varying the conditions. Syncrude will then be produced in the Fischer-Tropsch reactor, which is then separated by distillation to give different grades of diesel fuel. At all stages, students can measure intermediate and product compositions on line, and use the information to optimize the product and process. The different grades of diesel produced by different student teams will be tested on dedicated diesel engine test beds (already in the Diamond) to discover the optimum performance-composition characteristics.
2) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV):
3) Quantity or scope:
1 system, including installation, commissioning and maintenance/service contracts post-warranty. Needs to be fully compatible with the control room (Lot 3).
4) Indication about different date for start of award procedures and/or duration of contract:
5) Additional information about lots:
1 system, including installation, commissioning and maintenance/service contracts post-warranty. Needs to be fully compatible with the control room (Lot 3).

Lot No: 2; Lot title: Lot 2 — Manufacturing of high value formulated products e.g. pharmaceutical dosage forms
1) Short description: The pharmaceutical manufacturing facility will be in two parts. The first part consists of a crystallizer, wet mill and filter drier that can be run continuously, or in batch mode, to produce a model organic compound with controlled crystal attributes. The second part is a fully integrated continuous manufacturing of tablets from a blend of model active compound and excipient(s). The plant will consist of feeding, blending, granulation (wet or dry), fluid bed drying, lubricant addition and tableting. Students using this facility will be immersed in the culture of product engineering using high class characterization equipment to measure both the properties of the formulations and the attributes of product tablets they produce.
2) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV):
3) Quantity or scope:
1 system, including installation, commissioning and maintenance/service contracts post-warranty. Needs to be fully compatible with the control room (Lot 3).
4) Indication about different date for start of award procedures and/or duration of contract:
5) Additional information about lots:
1 system, including installation, commissioning and maintenance/service contracts post-warranty. Needs to be fully compatible with the control room (Lot 3).

Lot No: 3; Lot title: Lot 3 — Industrial Control room
1) Short description: The individual pilot plants will be controlled using state of the art distributed control systems. A dedicated control room on the mezzanine floor will overlook the pilot plant. The control room will simulate a true industrial plant with screen displays of the pilot plant that student operators will use to collect data, change set points and observe pilot plant responses.Dynamic process simulations of each pilot plant will be available in the control room. Students will undertake virtual experiments using the simulations as well as physical experiments on the pilot plant.
2) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV):
3) Quantity or scope:
1 system, to integrate fully with the other 2 Lots.
4) Indication about different date for start of award procedures and/or duration of contract:
5) Additional information about lots:

Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1) Conditions relating to the contract:
III.1.1) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:
III.2) Conditions for participation:
III.2.1) Information about reserved contracts:

Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1) Information about European Union funds:
The contract is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no.
VI.2) Additional information:
1. Register your company on the e-tendering portal In-tend: Express an interest in the Pilot Plant project (market sourcing exercise), ref 208/YE.3. Further details will be provided to suppliers who have expressed an interest in the project.4. Submit market sounding questions and responses via the In-tend portal.5. Suppliers registered as part of this PIN 208/YE will also be advised through the e-tendering portal when the formal Pilot Plant tender is advertised.
VI.3) Information on general regulatory framework:
VI.4) Date of dispatch of this notice: 06.11.2015