Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2023-02-10
Buyer: One Grid Operation AS
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive dialogue
CPV classification: 42961200 | 45315300 | 48000000 | 50324100 | 72000000
Estimated value: 800000000 NOK
Submission deadline: 2023-03-09
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
One Grid Operation, fully owned by Tensio TS, Tensio TN and Linea, invite to this competition. The Owner Companies have decided to reorganise the current management and monitoring of their power grids.
The Owner Companies seek to procure a platform to utilize power grid data enabling secure and smart operations, interaction and collaboration, exploiting data from all available data sources in analytics and data insight to support all processes regarding the power grid, and to replace the current SCADA and ADMS systems. A hybrid cloud solution is expected.
The Contract is divided into three parts; Establishment Project, Delivery and Termination phase. Establishment Project must meet the Customer’s requirements in the Establishment Project. In the Delivery Phase, the Solution shall be further developed towards the Purpose of the Solution through purchase of additional Standard Cloud Services and Customer adaptions.
The Customer shall procure a solution for power grid operational services to the Owner Companies, supporting all relevant processes for managing and further developing the power grid through analysis and gaining actionable insights from power grid data.
The Customer uses "standard cloud services" as a term for cloud services disregarding whether the cloud service is public, private or hosted by the Supplier.
The Customer uses "Solution" for the total scope to be delivered under the contract, without reference to the composition of standard cloud services and customisations.
Provide insight based on power grid data enabling operators, employees and external parties to make informed decisions and automate processes
Establishing a Solution technically and functionally facilitating good internal and external interaction
Establishing a customer-supplier collaboration that supports sound system operation, renewal, simplification and improvement, and ensures the Customer's ability to deliver good grid operation services
deliver value-added services (service management and operational services), additional services and further development of the Solution developed and established in a.
The part of the Solution enabling monitoring and control of any part of the Customer’s grid is regulated by The Power Contingency Regulation (chapter 7), stating that the operational control system must have highest level of security.
The Solution will replace today`s SCADA and ADMS functionality for the Owner Companies. The Solution shall have defined interfaces and integrations to exchange data through APIs with the Customer’s existing and future systems and platforms, with external parties and to the power grid. Since the grid operators handle highly sensitive data related to the operational control system, some degree of private cloud will be necessary as a part of the Solution. The Customer considers utilisation of cloud-based technology as a vital tool for efficient digitalisation of the power grid, as well as creating value from the Customer's big amounts of data through analysis and insight as a basis for informed decisions in and outside the Solution. A solution offered as a hybrid cloud combining private and public clouds is expected to cover the broad scope of the procurement.
The Supplier will also be responsible for establishing necessary Value-Added Services to ensure management and sound operation of the Solution.
Max. contract period including renewals is 15 years after approval of the establishment project. Customer will use the dialogue phase to decide duration of initial contract period and subsequent renewals. Duration stated in months constitutes assumed duration of the establishment project and the initial contract period, and is a starting point for the dialogue.

Eligibility requirements: Tenderers must be a legally registered company.

Award value: 800000000