Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-08-23
Buyer: Electricity Supply Board (ESB)
Country: IE
Region: IRELAND
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72500000 | 72510000: Computer-related management services | 72540000
Submission deadline: 2016-09-23
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
The wholesale electricity market covering Northern Ireland and Ireland, the Single Electricity Market (SEM), is due to undergo significant changes. This arises from changes to European legislation designed to harmonise cross border trading arrangements across all European electricity markets. The new wholesale market will be known as the Integrated Single Electricity Market (I-SEM) and will require market participants to alter the format and frequency with which they interact with the market
ESB is inviting expressions of interest from Applicants to provide a Market Communications Platform (product license & maintenance) and implementation services to setup specific ESB configuration and integration to ESB systems.
As a market participant with a sizeable retail and generation portfolio, the Market Communications Platform forms a key component of ESB's delivery of the I-SEM changes, many of which are mandatory from a regulatory perspective. Full details on the I-SEM Technical Specification can be found at — http://www.sem-o.com/ISEM/ISEMNews/Pages/I-SEMTechnicalSpecification,Release2isnowavailable!!.aspx
— Creation, validation, submission and receipt of market messages in I-SEM defined schemas including:
The proposed solution must have the ability to interface with the following ESB systems in addition to the external NEMO, TSO & ECC interfaces:
ESB is seeking a single Software as a Service (SaaS) based platform to cater for all I-SEM markets that include as standard:
— Out of the Box functionality that will manage automated market message interactions for I-SEM between ESB and the NEMO, TSO, & ECC Clearing House platforms
— Platform license that includes ongoing maintenance of the I-SEM interfaces and rules configuration as these updated by the market.
ESB will also require implementation services to configure the solution to ESB specific requirements i.e. Units, Reports, Screens etc. and integrate the solution to internal ESB systems. During the contract period there may be further implementation phases to cater for ESB requirements.
Please note, if the principal contractor is not the supplier of the product, ESB retains the right to have annual licence and maintenance contract directly with the product owner.
Applicants will be assessed on the quality of their responses to the criteria and rules outlined in the qualification questionnaire and at least 2 top scoring firms will be invited to tender, subject to that number qualifying.
Please consult the associated documentation, which contains full instructions regarding the submission of tenders and is available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 108378.


Eligibility requirements: Please consult the associated documentation, which contains full instructions regarding the submission of tenders and is available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 108378.