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Italy - Fuel cells - Supply and installation, under operating rental, of a high-efficiency combined electricity and heat generation plant using SOFC fuel cell technology for the CINECA-INFN data center at the DAMA technology park in Bologna, including auxiliary works and operation and maintenance services

Original Italia - Pile a combustibile - FORNITURA E POSA IN NOLEGGIO OPERATIVO DI UN IMPIANTO DI GENERAZIONE ELETTRICA E TERMICA AD ALTA EFFICIENZA MEDIANTE TECNOLOGIA FUEL CELLS (SOFC) A SERVIZIO DEL DATA CENTER CINECA-INFN C/O-DAMA TECNOPOLO DI BOLOGNA INCLUSIVA DI LAVORI STRUMENTALI E SERVIZI DI CONDUZIONE E MANUTENZIONE

Open Italy Emilia-Romagna Electrical machinery

Buyer CINECA Consorzio Interuniversitario

18:00 closes 13 Oct (UTC+2)

Key facts

Closes
15:05 hours left
Estimated value
€117.3M
€117,254,184
Procedure
Open procedure
  1. Published
  2. Today
  3. Deadline open for 22 days
  4. Awarded pending

Bidding window

21 days from publication to deadline

Shorter than usual

Notices of this kind (Italy, open procedure, above the EU threshold) give a median of 34 days, half of them between 29 and 40 days, based on 20,996 notices of the last two years. Fewer days than three in four comparable notices. Check the documents early and ask questions before the clarification deadline.

This buyer usually gives 34 days (median of its last 22 calls for tender).

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Summary

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The contracting body seeks the supply and installation of an electricity and heat generation plant with high efficiency, based on solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology, to serve the CINECA-INFN data center at the DAMA technology park in Bologna, Italy. The plant is to be provided under an operating rental arrangement. The scope also includes auxiliary works connected to the installation and services for operating, running and maintaining the plant. The notice is published in Italian.

Description

FORNITURA E POSA IN NOLEGGIO OPERATIVO DI UN IMPIANTO DI GENERAZIONE ELETTRICA E TERMICA AD ALTA EFFICIENZA MEDIANTE TECNOLOGIA FUEL CELLS (SOFC) A SERVIZIO DEL DATA CENTER CINECA-INFN C/O-DAMA TECNOPOLO DI BOLOGNA INCLUSIVA DI LAVORI STRUMENTALI E SERVIZI DI CONDUZIONE E MANUTENZIONE

Terms of the procedure

How tenders are scored
Quality: 15 percent; Quality: 15 percent; Quality: 10 percent; Quality: 10 percent; Price: 30 percent; Quality: 10 percent; Quality: 4 percent; Quality: 3 percent; Quality: 3 percent

As the official notice states them.

Bid or no-bid?

Six questions before you commit a team. Under each one, what the register holds on it. The answers are yours.

  1. In your favour:

    Do we meet every eligibility criterion?

    Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.

    Above the EU threshold: open to companies from any EU country.

  2. Your call:

    Can we deliver this with the team we have?

    Estimated at €117.3M.

  3. Your call:

    Do we have two comparable references?

    Comparable work is in Electrical machinery.

  4. Check this first:

    Is the deadline realistic for a proper offer?

    1 day left.

  5. Your call:

    Is there a margin at the likely winning price?

    In this country this kind of contract is usually awarded for between €270,000 and €2.8M.

  6. Your call:

    Do we know this buyer?

    The buyer has 48 notices in the register and no pattern of winners yet.

Can I bid?

  • Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid. Above the EU threshold: open to companies from any EU country.
  • The notice is written in Italian.
  • Certificates from another EU country? Check the equivalents on eCertis

Official source

Source: TED - Tenders Electronic Daily (Publications Office of the EU)

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Expected award price

likely award for this notice, from its published estimate of €117,254,184
€83.3M to €117.3M

Comparable awards in this country and sector came in at a median of 84% of their published estimate, half of them between 71% and 100%, based on 101 awards of the last 3 years.

Each award is compared with the estimate of the same lots, framework agreements excluded. A published estimate may include options and renewals, so an award under it is not always a discount.

What this market pays

The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 213 awards for Electrical machinery in Italy.

This notice
€117.3M
Median award
€800,000
Middle half of past awards
€270,000 to €2.8M

The estimate is larger than three in four past awards.

Award values as published by the official sources. Use them as a guide, not a rule: scope, lots and duration differ between contracts.

CINECA Consorzio Interuniversitario

Italy

notices in the register
48
awards
26
awarded in total
€157.2M

Who wins its contracts

Many suppliers
different companies won its awards
21
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
22%
of its calls state an estimated value
100%

Based on 23 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

Competition

tenders per lot on average (open and restricted procedures)
3.8
of those lots received a single tender
28%
of the awards went to companies based in another country
9%

As the official award notices state them, over the last 3 years. Tenders per lot count open and restricted procedures only: in a negotiated procedure or a direct award a single tender is the procedure itself. The country is the one the notice gives for the winner.

One dot per award, on the day it was signed, sized by its value. A ring is an award with no published value.

This buyer has no award history in this sector yet. Usual winners, Electrical machinery - Italy

Company Wins Total awarded Last win
Elettrosud spa 9 €2.6M Dec 2025
Tratos Cavi S.p.A 3 €295.4M Jul 2026
Hitachi Energy Italy 3 €224.5M Aug 2026
Ducati Energia SpA 3 €7.6M Sep 2026
S.E.A. SOCIETÀ ELETTROMECCANICA ARZIGNANESE S.P.A. 3 €6.0M Oct 2025

Based on 234 awards with a linked company profile over the last 2 years.

Market context

Larger than 98% of the open notices in Electrical machinery across Europe.

open now in Electrical machinery
2,359
median open notice
€143,625

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

Italy · Electrical machinery

different companies won awards here
199
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
6%
buyers awarded contracts here
137

Based on 234 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

Competition

tenders per lot on average (open and restricted procedures)
3.1
of those lots received a single tender
22%
of the awards went to companies based in another country
6%
of the tenders came from another country
27%

As the official award notices state them, over the last 3 years. Tenders per lot count open and restricted procedures only: in a negotiated procedure or a direct award a single tender is the procedure itself. The country is the one the notice gives for the winner.

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