Iceland – Repair, maintenance and associated services related to marine and other equipment – Maintenance of electric propulsion system

Description

Preventive maintenance of the electric propulsion system of the research vessel Árni Friðriksson during the 2026. The procurement covers: Maintenance of the converters (SD7000), transformers, propulsion motors, and switchboard, together with associated spare parts (coin cell batteries, fan capacitors, earth brushes). The scope should include manpower, engineering, project and fleet management, mobilization/demobilization, travel and reporting. Specific maintenance tasks for 2026, including firmware upgrade of Hirschmann RS20 switches to the latest release, converter measurement and protection checks, transformer SFRA tests, switchboard protection relay tests by injection, converter fibre optical cable intensity checks, dry transformer torque tightening, bearing inspections of motors/generators, jacking unit tests, and harmonics filter LV relay injection. Replacement of harmonic filter capacitors — 11 capacitors manufactured to the original GE Vernova design specifications (4BZ80303/80305/80307/80309), together with onboard service to replace the capacitors and restart the system.

Key facts

Procedure

neg-wo-call

Contact

stefan.paunov@fjs.is

Regime

publicSector

Contract references

Tenderer - GE Energy Power Conversion SAS

Category

services

Awarded suppliers

• GE Energy Power Conversion SAS · FR105, FR

Supplier location as published: Boulogne-Billancourt, FR105, 92100, FR

Bid competition

Who else bid, as published on the notice. A bid is an offer, not money paid: nothing in this section is an award, and a firm named here was not necessarily paid anything.

Formal challenges lodged: 0

Ground given for limiting competition

The buyer’s own stated reason for awarding without open competition, as published. Their assertion, not a finding.

technical

GE Energy Power Conversion SAS (GE Vernova) is the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of the electric propulsion system on board Árni Friðriksson — the converters, transformers, propulsion motors and switchboard. The maintenance requires specialized technical expertise, dedicated tooling, and access to the manufacturer's original design documentation and intellectual property rights, which no other party possesses. Spare parts, including the harmonic filter capacitors, must conform to the original GE Vernova design specifications to ensure compatibility and system reliability. For technical reasons, the works can therefore only be performed by this particular supplier, and no known competition exist. The procurement is necessary to maintain the operational reliability of the vessel for the coming years.