Tender Opportunity: Provision of Construction Support Services (CSS) at Star Deep Water Petroleum Limited (SDWPL)

Posted by Kordinichi on Tue 21st Jan, 2025 - nigeriantenders.com

Star Deep Water Petroleum Limited (SDWPL), a Chevron company and operator of the Agbami field on behalf of its co-venturers (FAMFA Oil Limited, Prime 127 Nigeria Limited, Equinor Nigeria Energy Company Limited and Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) invites interested and prequalified companies to tender for the Provision of Construction Support Services (CSS). Interested companies should possess relevant qualifications and experience.

Title: Tender Opportunity: Provision of Construction Support Services (CSS)

NipeX Tender No.: STARDEEP.00000114
Location: Nigeria

Introduction

Star Deep Water Petroleum Limited ("SDWPL"), a Chevron company and operator of the Agbami field on behalf of its co-venturers (FAMFA Oil Limited, Prime 127 Nigeria Limited, Equinor Nigeria Energy Company Limited and Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL), invites interested and prequalified companies with relevant experience for this tender opportunity for the provision of Construction Support Services to support the Agbami Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) Vessel operations, which is located in approximately 5000 feet of water and about 70 miles offshore Nigeria.
The services are estimated to commence March of 2025 for Five (5) years primary term with an optional two (2) years extension period.

Scope of Work

The scope of work for the services shall include but not limited to the provision of skilled, qualified and certified personnel, supervision, services, transport, testing devices, equipment, tools, consumable materials and/or every item of expense necessary for the provision of construction support services to Company, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, on an "as and when required" basis and in a safe manner to plant, assets and personnel at Company's Agbami FPSO facility.
Furthermore, successful companies would be expected to have self- sustaining operations and capabilities to provide any aspect of the scope from personnel only who are qualified and able to communicate fluently in English, to full services, including equipment and consumables, as may be required

Detailed Services Description
The scope of work for the provision of construction support services includes but not limited to the following:

Pipework including fabrication and installation.
Structural steel work, including welding.
Provision of resources to support Shutdown and Outage Management
Pre-commissioning support
Provision of Construction Crew
Provision of NDT Services onshore
Quality assurance and Quality Control
Onshore coating
Scaffolding
Flange management.
Electrical and Instrumentation
Storage of completed structures and piping.
Hydrotesting of valves, pressure vessels, tanks etc.
Post Weld Heat Treatment
Installation of fireproofing and insulation
Load-out & Sea fastening.
Material Handling
Transportation and logistics
Specialist Technical support services.
Project Management and Supervision
Engineering design and evaluation services
Rigging services.
Rope access
Mechanical equipment operation, repair, and maintenance
Process vessel, storage tanks, heat exchanger.
Pressure vessel repairs.
The provision of products and other materials (including consumables,construction plant and equipment) to the extent they are required to perform the Services.
Other services as may be required by business needs.

Application Closing Date
3rd February, 2025 at 16:00 hours.

Note: Only bidders who are pre-qualified and 'live' with NJQS Product/Categories 4.06.01 (Management and Provision of all Facilities Engineering, Modification and Maintenance Services for a Site/ Platform) by 16:00 Hours, 3 February 2025 being the advert close date shall be invited to submit technical bid.

Mandatory Requirements

To be eligible for this tender exercise, interested bidders are required to have the requisite NUPRC permit, NCDMB NOGIC JQS registration and be pre-qualified and 'live' under Product Code 4.06.01 (Management and Provision of all Facilities Engineering, Modification and Maintenance Services for a Site / Platform) category in NipeX Joint Qualification System (NJQS) database. All successfully pre- qualified and "live" bidders in this category by the bid close date of this advert will receive the Invitation To Tender (ITT).
To confirm if you are pre-qualified and view the product/service category you are listed for: Open www.vendors.nipex-ng.com and access NJQS with your log in details. Click on Products/Services tab to view your status and product codes.
If you are not listed in this product/service category you registered with NUPRC to do business, please contact Nipex office at 27b, Oyinkan Abayomi Drive, Ikoyi Lagos with your NUPRC certificate as evidence for verification and necessary update.
To initiate the JQS pre-qualification process, please access www.nipex-ng.com click on services tab followed by NJQS registration.
To be eligible, all interested bidders must comply with the Nigerian Content requirements in the NipeX system.

Nigerian Content Requirements

Star Deep Water Petroleum Limited is committed to the development of the Nigerian Oil and Gas business in observance with the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development Act 2010 (NOGICD Act) enacted by the Federal Government of Nigeria in April 2010.
Pursuant to enactment of the NOGICD Act, the minimum Nigerian Content in any project, service, or product specification to be executed in the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry shall be consistent with the level set in the schedule of the Act and any other target as may be directed by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB)
Contractors shall comply with the provisions of the NOGICD Act and all applicable regulations. Bidders that do not meet the Nigerian Content criterion will not be allowed to participate in next Tender Stage.

The following are the Nigerian Content requirements bidders are expected to comply with in their technical bid submission:

Tenderer shall provide evidence of being a Nigerian registered company with 51% shareholding capacity. The tender shall provide CO2 and CO7 forms, registration on NOGIC JQS and NUPRC certificate.
Tenderer shall provide detailed description of the location of in-country committed facilities & infrastructure (technical office, administrative space etc.) in Nigeria to support this contract.
Provide evidence of what percentage of your key management positions is held by Nigerians and what percentage of the total work force are Nigerians. Also, show overall percentage of work to be performed in Nigeria and those by Nigerian resources relative to total work volume.
Tenderer shall provide any of the underlisted category 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 NCEC demonstrating capacity to execute the work scope.
- Consultancy Services (CS) group.
- Fabrication and Construction (FC) group.
- Quality Control and Testing (QS) group.
- Construction and Movable Equipment (EC) group.
Tenderer shall comply with the latest approved version of NCDMB HCD guideline by committing (via a letter of undertaking) to providing Project-Specific training, man-hour, budget, skill development and understudy plan for Nigerian personnel utilizing OGTAN registered trainer(s) or other approved NCDMB training institution(s)

Additional Information

The Invitation to Tender (ITT) and any further progression of this tender shall be via NipeX. Interested bidders are therefore advised to ensure they are set-up in NipeX with a valid and active official company email address accessible by all in their organization as this shall be the only means to transmit the ITT.
Bidders, who, for this bid process enter a Joint Venture (JV), Partnership, Consortiums, etc. with another bidder that is bidding for this service will be disqualified.
All costs incurred by a bidder in preparing/processing NJQS prequalification and participating in this tendering process shall be to the bidder's accounts.
This advertisement shall neither be construed as any form of commitment on the part of Star Deep Water Petroleum Limited("Company") to award any contract to any company and or associated companies, sub-contractors, or agents, nor shall it entitle prequalified companies to make any claims whatsoever, and/or seek any indemnity from Company and/or any of its partners by virtue of such companies having been prequalified in NJQS.
The tendering process shall be the NNPC NipeX contracting process requiring pre-qualified companies to submit both technical and commercial tenders at the same time.
Company reserves the right to reject any and or all pre-qualified bids at its sole discretion and at no cost to Company.
Company will communicate only with authorized officers of the pre-qualifying companies and NOT through individuals or agents.