Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-06-16
Buyer: EirGrid plc
Country: IE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 71314000: Energy and related services
Estimated value: 5760000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2018-07-27
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: EirGrid and SONI, in their roles as Transmission system operators (TSOs) in Ireland and Northern Ireland, have an obligation to take various measures to minimise curtailment of priority dispatch generation (mainly renewables), including the use of countertrading on interconnectors. There may be at times security of supply obligations where interconnector flows need to be adjusted and/or testing. A new market in Ireland and Northern Ireland (I-SEM) is due to commence on 1.10.2018 and while schedules on Interconnectors will initially be determined by the market, the TSOs wish to have the capability to countertrade to meet their obligations. The East West interconnector operates at 530 MW import and 500 MW export while the Moyle interconnector nominally operates at 500 MW import and 500 MW export.
EirGrid and SONI, in their roles as Transmission system operators (TSOs) in Ireland and Northern Ireland, have an obligation to take various measures to minimise curtailment of priority dispatch generation (mainly renewables), including the use of countertrading on interconnectors. There may be at times security of supply obligations where interconnector flows need to be adjusted and/or testing. A new market in Ireland and Northern Ireland (I-SEM) is due to commence on 1.10.2018 and while schedules on interconnectors will initially be determined by the market, the TSOs wish to have the capability to countertrade to meet their obligations. The East West interconnector operates at 530 MW import and 500 MW export while the Moyle interconnector nominally operates at 500 MW import and 500 MW export.
The expected situations that will generate trade volume requests from the TSOs to the Energy trading partner are:
The Trading partner will act to sell or buy electricity from the GB market following market gate closure in I-SEM. The TSOs will identify the volume of energy required to be counter-traded over each DC interconnector. The Trading partner may be responsible for setting up the required market infrastructure (e.g. registration of units) and systems to allow such trades to occur.
The Contract will be awarded for a period of 3 years with an option to extend annually for up to 3 years.
EirGrid and SONI envisage qualifying up to 3 Candidates from this pre-qualification process, subject to the quality of responses received.
The Contract will be awarded for a period of 3 years with an option to extend annually for up to 3 years, subject always to the satisfactory performance of the successful Energy trading partner.
1) Interested parties must register their interest on the eTenders web site (www.etenders.gov.ie) in order to be included on the mailing list for clarifications. All information relating to attachments, including clarifications and changes, will be published on the Irish Government procurement opportunities portal (www.etenders.gov.ie) only. Registration is free of charge. The Contracting Authority will not accept responsibility for information relayed (or not relayed) via third parties;
3) The Contracting Authority will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates or tenderers;
5) It will be a condition of award that candidates are tax compliant and are in a position to produce a valid tax clearance certificate or eTax Clearance from the Revenue commissioners when requested;
6) If for any reason it is not possible to award the Contract one or more of the tenderers invited following the conclusion of this competitive process, the Contracting Authority reserves the right to award the Contract to the next ranked tenderer as appropriate;
7) At its absolute discretion, the Contracting Authority may elect to terminate this procurement process or any Contract awarded;
8) Please note in relation to all documents, that where reference is made to a particular standard, make, source, process, trademark, type or patent, that this is not to be regarded as a de facto requirement. In all such cases it should be understood that such indications are to be treated strictly and solely for reference purposes only, to which the words ‘or equivalent’ will always be appended;
9) Without prejudice to the principle of equal treatment, the Contracting Authority is not obliged to engage in a clarification process in respect of questionnaires with missing or incomplete information. Therefore, candidates are advised to ensure that they return fully completed questionnaires in order to avoid the risk of elimination from the competition.
The Contracting Authority will not conclude this contract to which a standstill period applies in accordance with Council Directive 2014/25/EU, until after the expiry of the standstill period which commences on the day following the date of notification on concerned candidates and tenderers. The duration of the standstill period will be 14 calendar days where notifications are sent electronically or by fax and 16 calendar days where these are sent by any other means. The Statutory instrument mentioned above provides that review procedures are available in the High Court to a person who has or has had an interest in obtaining the reviewable public contract and alleges that he or she has been harmed or is at risk of being harmed by an infringement of the law in relation in this Contract.

Eligibility requirements: Please see Information memorandum and Pre-qualification Questionnaire attached to this notice.

Award value: 5760000