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Call for Tender for the Basic Engineering Design of a Project with an Annual Production Capacity of 50,000 Tons of Dimethyl Carbonate (Second Time) Author/Source: Date: 2022-11-11 Clicks: 14 1. Tendering Conditions The project aimed at producing 50,000 tons of dimethyl carbonate per year has been approved and registered by the Development and Reform Commission of Fuling District, Chongqing. The project code is 2102-500102-04-01-869716. The project owner is Chongqing Jianfeng Xingyuan Technology Co., Ltd.; 55% of the funding for the project comes from the company’s own resources, while 45% comes from bank loans. The tendering authority is Chongqing Jianfeng Xingyuan Technology Co., Ltd. The project is now ready for bidding, and public bidding is being conducted for the design of the foundation works (including conceptual design) for this project. 2. Project Overview and Scope of Bidding 2.1 Location of construction: Zhulinwan, Baitao Chemical Industry Park, Fuling District, Chongqing. 2.2 Project overview: Chongqing Jianfeng Xingyuan Technology Co., Ltd. (abbreviated as Jianfeng Xingyuan Technology) plans to build a production facility capable of producing 50,000 tons of dimethyl carbonate per year, along with the necessary supporting infrastructure. The process used in this project is the two-step urea method; the main raw materials are urea and methanol. The total investment required for this project is approximately 400 million yuan. 2.3 ☑ Estimated investment cost for this tendered project: 400 million yuan ☑ Estimated cost of the design contract for this tendered project: 3.5 million yuan. 2.4 Scope of the tender: Foundation engineering design for a project with an annual production capacity of 50,000 tons of dimethyl carbonate (including conceptual design). This includes carrying out the overall project design, optimizing the design, performing foundation engineering design (including cost estimates and specialized documents), and making necessary adjustments based on the feedback from relevant administrative authorities, all in order to meet the specified design standards and quality requirements. The scope and depth of the foundation engineering design shall comply with the “Regulations on the Design Content for Foundation Engineering of Petrochemical Plants” (SPMP-STD-EM2003-2016). The scope includes, but is not limited to, all engineering designs within the boundary lines of the main equipment of this project, material handling systems, energy circulation processes, supporting facilities and equipment, auxiliary works, tank farms, and structural buildings. Special sections include, but are not limited to: safety sections, environmental protection sections, energy conservation sections, fire protection sections, occupational health sections, seismic resistance sections, lightning protection and grounding sections, as well as sponge city design sections required based on the location of the project. Related services: including but not limited to tendering support services (including preparing tender documents based on the division into bid sections, assisting with responses to tender queries, and drafting technical specifications for equipment and materials) ; Technical briefing ; Design optimization ; Assist the tenderer in preparing specialized and targeted design documents required to obtain approvals from the relevant regulatory authorities ; Assist the tenderer in handling relevant administrative approval procedures, and provide the design documents required for completing such approvals as well as other related submission processes. The project uses externally supplied 1,2-propanediol and solid urea as raw materials to produce propylene carbonate, with liquid ammonia as a by-product ; Dimethyl carbonate is produced from propylene carbonate and methanol, with 1,2-propanediol generated as a by-product and recycled; the main processes include, but are not limited to: the propylene carbonate synthesis stage, the propylene carbonate distillation and catalyst recovery stage, the DMC reaction and purification stage, the propanediol recovery and carbonization stage, and the liquid ammonia stage. Auxiliary facilities include, but are not limited to: tank farms, loading and unloading areas, system utility tunnels, plant roads, warehouses, recycled water facilities, accident water tanks, fire water tanks and pump rooms, as well as laboratories (including office areas), power distribution rooms, control rooms, air and nitrogen stations, etc. Design-construction coordination services: All designs provided by the design party must comply with the requirements for construction administrative licensing review and approval in Chongqing. Relevant technical documents shall be supplied, and assistance shall be provided throughout the process of review, approval, acceptance, design briefings, \"three inspections and four determinations\", quality inspection, joint commissioning, and trial operation until the 168-hour performance test is passed. 2.5 Design service period: 80 calendar days. All tasks required by the contract must be completed within 80 calendar days after the signing of the cooperation agreement, and all relevant approvals must be obtained. The specific requirements are as follows: 1) Proposal design: The proposal document along with related diagrams must be completed within 20 calendar days ; 2) Foundation engineering design (including preliminary design, preliminary design specifications, and cost estimation; covering sections on safety, environmental protection, energy conservation, fire protection, occupational health, seismic resistance, lightning protection and grounding, as well as a sponge city design section required based on the location of the project; it also includes design materials necessary for the procurement of long-life equipment): The preliminary design (conceptual design) shall be completed within 80 calendar days. 3. Qualification requirements for bidders 3.1 For this tender, bidders must meet the following conditions: 3.1.1 Bidders are required to possess a valid Class A comprehensive engineering design qualification issued by the competent construction administration authority. 3.1.2 The bidder shall also possess the appropriate design capabilities in terms of personnel, experience, equipment, funds, etc.; for details, please refer to item 1.4.1 in the annex prior to the Bidder’s Instructions in Chapter 2 of the tender documents. 3.2 Joint bids are not accepted for this tender. Economic compensation for technical achievements: This tender provides economic compensation for the technical achievements presented in the bids of those who did not win the bid. In the event of economic compensation being provided, the tenderer will pay such compensation in accordance with the following standards: 4. The deadline for submitting bid documents (hereinafter referred to as the bid deadline) is 10:00 on 2022-11-24
Market aspect: 1. Severe overcapacity. Demand for lithium batteries in the new energy sector is growing rapidly, but there is now an oversupply; there is also an oversupply of lithium battery electrolytes ; 2. Trends in solid-state batteries. Solid-state batteries may represent the future trend, but this is also a disadvantage for dimethyl carbonate, which is used as an electrolyte in lithium batteries ; 3. There is also overcapacity in non-optical PCs. 4. Excess production capacity inevitably leads to competitive selection in the market, and this is already the case; moreover, the cost of the urea hydrolysis process does not offer any competitive advantage. Technically: The process for the proposed project involves only one or two units in operation, and due to factors such as blockages, the maturity and stability of this process still require time for verification. Furthermore, the scale of a single unit is too small; the scale of routes for transesterification or co-production of ethylene glycol from coal (as opposed to the methanol carbonylation route) is very large. In particular, the scale of the latter route reaches 300,000 tons per unit. How can a project with a scale of 50,000 tons compete with that?