Navantia has now chosen the companies that will handle the comprehensive maintenance service for the Cartagena dock. This brings to a close — pending only the formal signing of the contract — a procedure that has been running for more than a year and had to be re-tendered because it was not properly divided into lots.
The work will be shared between the successful bidders: Madrid-based Elecnor Servicios y Proyectos, and two local firms, Mecánicas Bolea and Integralia, which bid jointly through a Temporary Business Union (UTE).
Although each party won two of the four lots, Elecnor came out the biggest winner, taking most of the €26.1 million maximum value of the two-year contract. It will pocket up to €22.2 million, while the €3.9 million remainder goes to the Cartagena firms.
The gap is driven by the weight of lot 4, which covers comprehensive maintenance of the most complex industrial machinery at Navantia’s Cartagena dock, with particular focus on CNC tools and automated systems controlled by PLC and SCADA. It includes electrical, electronic and mechanical maintenance of critical production equipment — lathes, milling machines, machining centres, presses, furnaces, oxy-cutting and welding machines — as well as specialised technical cleaning of these machines. It therefore carries a budget of up to €19.1 million.
Elecnor will also take charge of lot 3, covering all the cranes on the quays and docks, plus gantry cranes, though not self-propelled ones. That lot is set at €3.1 million.
Mecánicas Bolea and Integralia are tied to the first two lots. They will be responsible for the comprehensive maintenance and repair of Navantia’s industrial and electrical installations, which also covers the Hydrogen Technologies Centre of Excellence and the sections of electrical network exclusively serving it, at a cost of up to €1.5 million.
They will also handle the Syncrolift shiplift facilities at the Cartagena dock, including the transfer carriage, the dry dock (along with the pump house), the floating dock (excluding its operation) and the receiving dock. For this work they will receive a maximum of €2.4 million.
The contract specifications state that the work is split into two parts: planned maintenance of the installations, fully set out in the contract, and any work that may arise unexpectedly. In this respect, Navantia points to the obligation to repair unforeseen breakdowns according to the priority set by the company, as well as fixing anomalies detected during planned maintenance.
Originally published in Murcia Plaza.