Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2021-01-08
Buyer: Amprion GmbH
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 72000000
Submission deadline: 2021-02-03
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
Manually Activated Reserves Initiative (MARI) is the European implementation project for the creation of a European platform for the exchange of balancing energy from frequency restoration reserves with manual activation (mFRR), as required by the electricity balancing guideline (Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/2195), which defines tasks and a timeline for the implementation of the European mFRR platform. The MARI platform shall be capable of gathering offers for mFRR provision from participating TSOs’ local balancing market, and provide an optimised selection of reserves to cover the TSOs demands.
The test service provider to be selected in this procurement procedure will be responsible for planning and executing user acceptance tests, and for planning and facilitating interoperability testing between the platform and external systems. Part of the preliminary phase will be to participate in Factory Acceptance Tests which will be executed and facilitated by IT software providers of the MARI solution.
The test service provider will assess and validate the automated test suite produced by the provider(s) of the MARI software solution.
References: the references (see III.1.3.a) of an applicant will be evaluated with points by an overall assessment. Maximum 10 points can be reached per applicant.
The evaluation will focus on the spectrum of experience in relation to the requested services of each applicant.
10 points show an outstanding experience spectrum, 9 points a very good, 8 points a good, 7 points a satisfactory and 6 points and less an insufficient spectrum of experience.
Therefore, a minimum score of more than 6 points is necessary in order to be requested to submit an offer.
The contracting authority reserves the right to choose only the best 5 to 8 applicants to submit an offer.
(According to the price sheet ‘Anlage 3_Preisverzeichnis_MARI’/optional extension of the contract duration).
(b) Self-declaration from which it is clear that the company and, if applicable, those on whose capacities the company relies, do not fulfil any grounds for exclusion under Sections 123 and 124 Act against Restraints of Competition (Gesetz gegen Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen — GWB).
(a) With the request to participate, the total turnover in the last 3 completed financial and, if available, the turnover with comparable services in the last 3 completed financial years have to be submitted.
(b) The applicant shall prove that it has a turnover, over the last 3 financial years, representing at least: EUR 250 000 for each year.
(c) With the request to participate, annual reports or alternatively balance sheets (reason for deviation has to be given), or, if they cannot be submitted, a profit and loss sheet of the last two completed financial years has to be submitted. The contracting authority reserves the right to exclude applicants who do not have financial stability.
(d) Submission of an insurance certificate attesting to the existence of a public liability insurance; as an alternative (reason for deviation has to be given by the applicant) a certificate from an insurance company stating that such insurance cover will exist for the applicant in the event of the award.

Eligibility requirements: (a) Current extract from the professional or trade Register. (b) Self-declaration from which it is clear that the company and, if applicable, those on whose capacities the company relies, do not fulfil any grounds for exclusion under Sections 123 and 124 Act against Restraints of Competition (Gesetz gegen Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen — GWB). The Annex ‘A2_application questionnaire’ has to be submitted.