Wind power bid evaluation rules have changed! The lowest bid may become history

After a long period of price "involution", China's wind power industry is gradually returning to rationality.

Yesterday, the State Power Investment Group in 2024 the second batch of onshore wind turbine large-scale procurement projects officially opened the bid, according to Polaris Wind Power Grid understands, a total of 9 wind power enterprises to participate in the bidding, the competition is quite fierce. The total scale of the project is 8.4GW, including 7.2GW of purchased capacity and 1.2GW of reserve capacity, and the single unit capacity is required to be 5MW-10MW. Among them, 7.2GW of project capacity is divided into 30 small bids for external bidding and procurement.

01Wind turbine prices are higher than historical levels

Judging by the results of the bid opening. Among the 30 bids, the wind turbine quotation of Lot 28 - Hami 13-room 1 million kilowatt wind-solar-storage integration project is the lowest, the lowest price is 1386 yuan/kW, the highest price is 1720 yuan/kW, and the average price of the wind turbine is 1550 yuan/kW.

Polaris Wind Power Grid found that the single capacity of wind turbines purchased by the 1 million kilowatt wind-solar-storage integration project of Lot 28 - State Power Investment Hami 13 rooms is between 10MW and 12MW, and the purchase of large-scale onshore wind turbines is priced at 1,720 yuan/kW.

Prior to this, the price of 10MW onshore wind turbines has hovered around 1,100-1,300 yuan/kW for a long time, and the quotation of 10MW wind turbines for individual large wind power base projects has been lower than 1,000 yuan/kW.

Analysis from the level of unit unit capacity. The average quoted price of the 5MW onshore wind turbine bid section remains at about 2,300 yuan/kW-2,600 yuan/kW; The average quoted price of 6.25MW and 6.7 MW onshore wind turbines remained at around 2,000 yuan/kW-2,400 yuan/kW; The average quoted price of the 6.7 MW+ onshore wind turbine bid section remained above 1,500 yuan/kW.

It can be found that in the centralized procurement of this project, the quotations of the whole machine manufacturers participating in the bidding are higher than the historical level, so that the price of wind turbines has begun to rise.

The recovery of wind turbine prices is due to the change in the bidding scoring criteria.

02Changes in the calculation method of the benchmark price for bid evaluation

Polaris Wind Power Grid learned that in this bidding and procurement, the State Power Investment Group has modified the calculation method of the benchmark price for bid evaluation, no longer taking the lowest price as the benchmark price for bid evaluation, but taking the arithmetic average of the effective bidder's bid evaluation price and then lowering 5% as the benchmark price for bid evaluation.

When the quotation of the enterprise is lower than or equal to the benchmark price of the bid evaluation, full marks are awarded; When the quotation of the enterprise is higher than the benchmark price of the bid evaluation within 5% (including 5%), 0.4 points will be deducted on the basis of the full score for every 1% higher, and 0.8 points will be deducted for every 1% higher than the part of the bid evaluation benchmark price if the bid evaluation price is higher than 5% until the deduction is exhausted.

This rule has been optimized so that the lowest bid does not necessarily win.

Only high-quality technical solutions, perfect business qualifications, reasonable bidding quotations and other factors can be superimposed to get high scores and win orders.

This can be said to be a very representative change, which has set an example for all wind power development enterprises, and also made the wind power industry hovering in the fog see the light of hope.

It is important to know that before this, most wind power development companies used the lowest price as the benchmark price for bid evaluation. In essence, it encourages companies participating in the bidding to quote low prices, and the lower the price, the higher the score.

The butterfly effect of low prices has been created.Wind power equipmentIn order to survive, enterprises have to obtain more orders at lower prices, and in the end, they can only sacrifice product quality to achieve the purpose of low prices, so vicious circle erodes the foundation of China's wind power development.

03Call on more wind power companies to join the change

On October 16, at the 2024 Beijing International Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition, 12 wind power enterprises signed the "Self-Discipline Convention on Maintaining a Fair Competition Environment in the China Wind Power Industry". Establish a convention implementation management committee and a disciplinary supervision committee to resist vicious competition at low prices.

On November 15, more than 40 wind power developers and executives of complete machine enterprises attended the 2024 Wind Energy Enterprise Leaders Symposium, and agreed that it is necessary to optimize the bidding rules on how to fundamentally solve the problem of low-price vicious competition.

At present, the effect of "breaking the involution" in China's wind power industry has begun to appear, and all parties in the industrial chain have formed a consensus from parts and components enterprises, complete machine manufacturers to development enterprises. Developers of central state-owned enterprises, represented by the State Power Investment Group, have adjusted their bidding strategies for wind power projects, and comprehensively evaluated the R&D, manufacturing, and quality assurance capabilities of OEMs by setting more comprehensive and reasonable evaluation indicators.

Here, we also call on more wind power companies to make changes, optimize the bidding rules for wind power projects, appropriately adjust the technical weight of wind turbines, and fundamentally put an end to low-price vicious competition.