Architectural services – Stadtwerke Essen AG: EU-wide energy centre planning (Lot 3) 2026 Tender
Original: Architectural and related services – Stadtwerke Essen AG: EU-weites Vergabeverfahren "Planung der Energiezentrale" (Los 3)
Stadtwerke Essen AG (SWE)
In context
This is a contract notice published by a utility covering services. Bids are invited through a restricted procedure. Delivery covers Germany (Europe). It is classified under Sustainable Buildings, Heating and Cooling and Engineering and Infrastructure against the sustainability taxonomy rather than matched on keywords.
Stadtwerke Essen AG is tendering planning services for the energy centre of a low-temperature district heating network, covering all heat generators and their plant technology, as Lot 3 of five. It suits engineering firms with heating-plant design experience, and the staged optional call-off structure favours established planning consultancies.
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About this tender
Stadtwerke Essen AG (SWE) is procuring architectural and related planning services for Lot 3, "Planung der Energiezentrale", as part of an EU-wide tender. The purpose is to realise a low-temperature district heating network. Lot 3 covers the planning of the energy centre, including all heat generators inside it and all associated plant engineering. The overall procurement is split into five lots: network concept and heating network optimisation (Lot 1), technical due diligence and analysis of the existing network (Lot 2), energy centre planning (Lot 3, this notice), heating network planning (Lot 4), and project management (Lot 5). This notice covers only Lot 3. Full scope is set out in the service specification, the cross-lot general project description and the contract. The contract provides for staged optional commissioning, referred to in § 3.6 of the contract. The EU notice for Lot 4 was published at the same time. Lots 1, 2 and 5 were published on 7 September 2026. Tender documents for Lot 4 are available via a dtvp.de link given in the notice. The page does not state the duration of the Lot 3 services.
Lots
- Lot 1: Netzkonzept und Wärmenetzoptimierung
Grid concept and heating network optimisation.
- Lot 2: Technische Due Diligence und Analyse des Bestandnetzes
Technical due diligence and analysis of the existing network.
- Lot 3: Planung der Energiezentrale
Planning of the energy centre, including all heat generators within the energy centre and all associated plant engineering. This is the subject of the present notice.
- Lot 4: Planung des Wärmenetzes
Planning of the heating network for distributing heat to the buildings to be supplied and connecting them to the energy centre.
- Lot 5: Projektsteuerung
Project management.
Key requirements
- ✓Planning of energy centre including all heat generators and associated plant technology
- ✓Part of a five-lot district heating project; bids limited to either Lots 1-4 or Lot 5
- ✓Staged optional call-off structure per contract section 3.6; participation competition precedes bid submission
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