Novi Sad Relaunches Miseluk Heating Plant Tender
The earlier procedure was cancelled in late September. The new one covers design, construction and ten years of heat pump maintenance, with capacity of up to 30 megawatts.
Novi Sad’s district heating company is looking for a contractor for the Miseluk heating plant once again. The previous procedure was cancelled in late September because every bid received was judged unacceptable. The new tender, with an estimated value of 892.5 million dinars excluding VAT (about 7.6 million euros), has been published on the Public Procurement Portal. The new procedure was reported on October 26, and bids are due by December 3 at 11 a.m.
The contracting authority is the public utility company Novosadska Toplana, and the subject is the design and construction of the Miseluk heating plant in Novi Sad.
What exactly is the contractor asked to deliver?
The contract, listed as Lot 2, covers design, procurement, delivery and installation of equipment, construction, testing and commissioning of the Miseluk plant. The selected bidder also takes on maintenance and servicing of the heat pump for ten years.
The works include the building structure and supporting infrastructure, sized to handle the final phase of the plant’s development. A general design with a preliminary feasibility study was completed last year.
How big is the plant, and what covers the gap until it is ready?
According to the technical documentation, the planned heat source has a capacity of up to 30 megawatts and will be built in phases, in step with the expansion of the district heating system in the Miseluk area. Until the main facility is finished, a temporary containerized boiler house with a capacity of one megawatt will supply some of the future users. It is intended for customers who will connect during 2027 and 2028.
Procurement and delivery of the boiler house itself are split off into a separate lot, for which a tender is already under way. Its installation and connection, though, fall under the construction of the plant.
Why is the tender being repeated?
According to Biznis.rs, the previous procedure was cancelled because none of the bids received was judged acceptable. The date of cancellation was given only roughly, as the end of September with no exact day, and the amounts the bidders asked for were not published, so it is impossible to say how far the rejected bids exceeded the estimate.
The new estimate is 892.5 million dinars excluding VAT, and bidders have from the publication of the news until December 3, a little over five weeks, to prepare their documentation.
Geothermal energy or a heat pump?
Tanjug’s headline describes the facility as a geothermal heating plant, but the text of the procurement notice mentions only a heat pump, with no word on the source of the heat. Biznis.rs, citing the portal eKapija, recalls that in its district heating development strategy to 2030, Novosadska Toplana considered a heat source concept for Miseluk based on the principles of fourth-generation district heating.
