Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-08-05
Buyer: RTE Réseau de Transport d'Electricité
Country: FR
Region: Not specified
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72200000 | 72500000 | 72800000
Submission deadline: 2016-09-09
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
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), Swiss Grid (Switzerland) and TERNA (Italy). A 7th, ADMIE (Greece), acts as observer.
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 Replacement Reserves 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.
Packages related to "Design & Development (B1 and B2) and "Testing activities" (F) cannot be provided by the same supplier.
— Support & Maintenance (to start from the ‘interoperability testing’ phase for a firm duration of 12 months).
The optimisation process is the core of the TERRE platform. This component receives the balancing offers, needs and available cross-border capacities, and using the mathematical equations developed by the TSOs, determines the best match of offers to be activated. The module also calculates the marginal price and resulting scheduled flows between the market balance areas.
The supplier of this component shall provide a realisation of the TSOs equations & optimisation rules in its own software package.
This component shall be developed in alignment with the data model and overall platform integration developed under package B2.
— Support & Maintenance (to start from the ‘interoperability testing’ phase for a firm duration of 12 months).
This package comprises all aspects of the platform described in the Business Requirements Summary document except for the optimisation module. Supplier of this work package is responsible for the overall architecture of the platform, integration with the optimisation module, GUI/presentation layer, data modelling and database design, data storage, and communication layer. Supplier of this work package will conduct system test and Factory Acceptance Test. User acceptance testing will be conducted by the supplier of Package F. Package B2 supplier is expected to collaborate with the testing supplier (Package F) to achieve User Acceptance testing and support both this and the interoperability testing stages.
This package comprises provision of 3 principal environments: internal test (for User Acceptance Testing and staging of revisions to the platform software), external test (for Interoperability Testing with TSOs) and production. Further environments may be required on an adhoc basis for simulation and scenario planning if internal or external test environments are not available. The provider of this package will manage the deployment process and the capability to set up an environment with a specified datum of reference and master data.
The supplier of this package takes responsibility for day-to-day responsibility for operation of the platform, according to the agreed operational model, including
— control of the business process (start-stop of auctions, setting up of ad-hoc process steps etc. as instructed, in accordance with the governance regime defined by the TSOs).

Eligibility requirements: I) The candidate shall provide the following information (eliminatory): — the company full legal name, address, country, registration number and Dun & Bradstreet (DUNS) number; — a certificate of incorporation/registration dated within the last 3 months; — proofs of its legal obligation fulfilment, including social security contributions and payment of taxes; — a non-bankruptcy declaration; — if so, the parent company full legal name, address, registration number and DUNS number. ii) The candidate shall provide as additional information: — technical and commercial contact details; — list of relevant offices located in Europe; — staff turnover rate over the last 3 years; — details about potential / recent buyouts and mergers.