Service contracts for standby oil spill recovery vessel(s)

European Maritime Safety Agency

The European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) was tasked in 2004 to 'support on request with additional means, in a cost-efficient way, the pollution response mechanisms of Member States' (Article 2(c)(iii) of Regulation (EC) 1406/2002 as amended).
Accordingly, EMSA's action plan for oil pollution preparedness and response of 2004 identified how to implement this task with regard to pollution caused by oil spills at sea. The action plan, as updated by subsequent EMSA work programmes, highlighted the necessity for a network of oil recovery vessels. Consequently, contracts have been established for at-sea oil recovery services in the Baltic Sea, along the Atlantic Coast, in the North Sea, in the Mediterranean Sea and in the Black Sea. More information on these issues is available from the Agency website http://www.emsa.europa.eu
Following the adoption of the Agency's work programme 2013 by the Administrative Board in November 2012, EMSA intends to maintain and strengthen its response capacity network through a 'seventh round' of contractual arrangements with companies/consortia. Such companies/consortia can include commercial shipowners and/or operators and/or spill response organisations/manufacturers.
Description of standby oil spill recovery vessel service to be provided:
EMSA would like to be able to offer, on the basis of standby contracts, at-sea oil recovery services by vessels. Under this system, the vessel(s) would carry out its normal commercial activities until such time as the Agency receives a request for assistance from a Member State to combat a marine oil spill. At this point the vessel(s) should be transformed rapidly into oil recovery vessel(s) and to be made available for at-sea oil recovery activities during a major oil spill. The vessel will offer its services to the requesting Member State on the basis of a pre-agreed model contract that has been developed by the Agency.
The area of this procurement procedure will be the Channel and southern North Sea meaning the southern coastline of the United Kingdom from Lands' End to Hull and the European continental coastline from Brest (France) to Esbjerg (Denmark).
The Agency intends to establish a contract for the availability of the vessel(s) in the area identified for a minimum period of 3 years. Such a contract could be renewed for a second period of 3 years dependent on contractor performance. The contract(s) addresses a number of issues such as an agreed fee structure for various types of activity including:
— availability of suitable and/or pre-fitted vessel(s), in the area identified in the procurement procedure, that is able to be transformed rapidly and at short notice into an oil recovery vessel. The vessel(s) will have sufficient on-board storage capacity for recovered oil and have an appropriately trained crew capable of handling oil pollution response equipment and working under an international command and control structure,
— participation in annual multinational at-sea spill response exercises (maximum of 10 days a year including sailing time) for which the contractor will be paid a pre-agreed daily rate plus the fuel costs,
— work as a standby oil recovery vessel in case of an actual oil spill for a requesting Member State on the basis of a model contract with pre-agreed tariffs and conditions plus fuel costs,
— obliged to react positively to all requests for assistance to respond to an oil spill, regardless of the spill location. It can be expected that the 'response zone' will be in the area, as identified in the procurement procedure, where the vessel is based. The vessel(s) will have to be available during the whole period of the contract for pollution response activities. The oil pollution response equipment can either be permanently on-board or ready for rapid installation.
Main elements of a service contract:
The service contracts will be structured along the 2 general lines as indicated below:
— a 'vessel availability' contract specifically between the company/consortium and the Agency for the availability and associated preparations of vessel(s) for spill response activities,
— an 'incident response' contract between the company/consortium and the Member State requesting assistance for the provision of at-sea oil recovery resources during an actual (large-scale) incident. In order to improve vessel mobilisation time, this contract includes pre-agreed terms and conditions for the provision of assistance to the requesting coastal State.

O prazo para a recepção das propostas era 2013-04-11. O concurso foi publicado em 2013-02-19.

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