Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2024-08-08
Buyer: Amprion GmbH
Region: DEA22
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated with prior call for competition
CPV classification: 72000000
Estimated value:  EUR
Award criteria: price, quality

Technical requirements: Manually Activated Reserves Initiative (MARI) is the European implementation project for the creation of the European platform for the exchange of balancing energy from frequency restoration reserves with manual activation (mFRR). The Electricity Balancing guideline (Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/2195) (hereinafter the ‘EB Regulation‘), approved by the Electricity Cross-Border Committee on 16 March 2017, defines tasks and a timeline for the implementation of the European mFRR platform. The tendered Testing Service provider is responsible for testing the software developed for MARI and the connections between TSOs and the MARI platform. Furthermore Testing Service provider supports TSOs with their accession to MARI platform.
A maximum of 30.00 (thirty) points can be awarded for this award criterion. The bidder with the best price will receive the full number of points. The points for the prices for the other bids will be set in relation to the best price.
A maximum of 25 (twenty five) points can be achieved.  Points for this sub-criterion are awarded on the basis of a plausibility and quality check of the concept to be submitted. For the sake of clarity, the project concept can be submitted within a dedicated file (PDF). The concept must contain the following requirements in particular, but not exclusively: Project organization (resource planning, ability to process parallel workstreams) Identification of focal points and time risks in the project Identification of communication interfaces in the project Execution concept that reflects the total effort for this project. This should show the number of hours per project member envisaged by the tenderer (based on the qualifications contained in the price list). Handover and familiarization with the project (schedule, risk management, resource planning...)
A maximum of 20.0 (twenty) points can be achieved. Points are awarded for the criterion as a result of a plausibility and quality check of the requirements catalogue completed by the tenderer. For each listed requirement (Req.ID), the tenderer must explain whether and how it will implement the requirement. The description should contain details of the specific implementation by the tenderer. The contracting authority shall evaluate the tenderers' explanations using the points system below. 
0= Notor marginally fulfilled 
1= Partially fulfilled 
2= Largely or completely fulfilled
The tenderer must prepare a qualified self-disclosure on the implementation of the security requirements by writing a self disclosure in the field provided for this purpose in the document ( 10 Richtlinie ISMS Dienstleister im Prozessbereich_ENGLISCH.xslx). In addition to simply stating whether the security requirements are met, the method of implementation must also be briefly described. The contracting authority shall assess the information in the tenderer's offer for each security requirement of the Guideline ISMS with 0 to 2 points. 
0= Not or marginally fulfilled 
1= Partially fulfilled 
2= Largely or completely fulfilled 

0= Not or marginally fulfilled: The response does not answer the question, has completely skipped the question or only gives a very limited substantive answer to the requested elements. 
1= Partially fulfilled: The response has a limited substantive relevance to the requested elements and aspects, but has sufficiently taken into account the principles of this tender and is
sufficiently in line with the requirements. 
2= Largely or completely fulfilled: the description concerns a substantively relevant and applicable or even excellent answer based on the principles of this tender. All requested
elements have been at least well developed and answered, with mostly substantive specific relevant details or details that correspond at least largely to the requested elements.


Winner: Amprion GmbH
Award value: 6462000
Number of bids: 5