Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-03-27
Buyer: RTE Réseau de Transport d'Electricité
Country: FR
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 72500000
Submission deadline: 2018-04-12
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: TERRE is a pilot project set by ENTSO-E for cross-border exchanges of balancing reserves between Transmission system operators (TSOs). It is one among several initiatives to implement the Electricity balancing guideline (network code).
6 European TSOs are directly involved as partners: National grid (GB), REE (Spain), REN (Portugal), RTE (France), Swissgrid (Switzerland) and TERNA (Italy).
The short term objective of the TERRE platform is to support exchange of Replacement reserves (RR) on a regional level. In a subsequent phase, the platform may support also the exchange of manual Frequency restoration reserves (mFRR).
The TERRE platform shall be capable of gathering in near-realtime all the offers for RR from participating TSOs' local balancing markets and to provide, on a regional level, an optimised allocation of the reserves that will cover the TSOs' imbalance needs.
— control of the business process (start-stop of auctions, setting up of ad-hoc process steps, etc. as instructed in accordance with the gorvernance regime defined by the TERRE Members).
i) The candidate shall state and demonstrate not the be subject to the following grounds (eliminatory — further details are made available on the portal):
— Proof of enrolment in a national trade register (certificate dated within the past 3 months requested, as well as for every member of the consortium if any),
— Location of its operational team within a 5 hours flight radius maximum from the TERRE Members main locations (London, Paris, Zurich, Roma, Madrid and Lisbon),
(iii) as part of a consortium, in which case the authorised representative must be specified and the members listed.
i) The candidate shall justify, on the same activity perimeter that the expected services, an overall turnover for the last 3 financial year that represents at least (eliminatory): 600 000 EUR.
ii) The candidate shall justify a professional risk indemnity insurance by providing certificate issued by a bank or insurer specifying the covered amounts by type of damages (eliminatory).
For each lot the candidate is interested by, a PDF document of maximum 15 pages must be drafted in order to introduce the company (and the consortium if any) as well as the technical and professional ability to meet the TERRE Members' need, including the following minimum expected content:
3. Proven organisational structure to interact with and support remote multinational group of users and customer representatives;
4. Problem solving and diagnosis in a complex IT environment involving multiple software application support teams, and multiple server/multiple environment deployments;
— the operating structure has to be declared at the contract notice stage. No change will then be allowed throughout the tendering process, unless cases listed under French law in the Article 4 of the 2016-360 decree applicable to the procedure.

Eligibility requirements: i) The candidate shall state and demonstrate not the be subject to the following grounds (eliminatory — further details are made available on the portal): — Grounds relating to criminal convictions, — Grounds relating to the payment of taxes or social security contributions, — Grounds relating to insolvency, conflicts of interests or professional misconduct. ii) The candidate shall meet the following suitability requirements (eliminatory): — Proof of enrolment in a national trade register (certificate dated within the past 3 months requested, as well as for every member of the consortium if any), — Location of its operational team within a 5 hours flight radius maximum from the TERRE Members main locations (London, Paris, Zurich, Roma, Madrid and Lisbon), — Declaration under which operating structure it intends to participate: (i) in its own name, or (ii) as prime contractor with subcontractors, or (iii) as part of a consortium, in which case the authorised representative must be specified and the members listed. iii) The candidate shall provide as additional information: — the commercial and technical contact details, — a list of officies located in Europe, — its staff turnover rate over the last 3 years, — details about potential / recent buyouts and mergers.