Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2023-09-15
Buyer: Amprion GmbH
Country: DE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 72000000
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
Development and Service and Maintenance for the Optimisation Module (AOF) for the MARI Platform (Lot 1) and the Data Management Module for the MARI Platform (Lot 2)
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.
Amprion is not a contracting authority or sector contracting authority within the meaning of public procurement law. In the present case, Amprion is exceptionally issuing a public invitation to tender, as the service to be procured also meets the needs of other transmission system operators who are subject to public procurement law.
The optimisation module or AOF (activation-optimisation function) module of the platform refers to the module, which solves the optimisation problem and provides the market clearing for the mFRR. As such, the module is responsible for finding the most cost-efficient activation of mFRR bids to meet the TSO demands, while
considering constraints linked with the availability of the network. The service provider is expected to perform software development of this module, as well as provide service and maintenance during ongoing operation of this module of the platform.
According to the price sheets “Annex 3 - Price List MARI - Lot 1” / optional extension of the contract duration
The data management module is responsible most importantly for providing an interface for the national mFRR energy markets. In this sense, the data management module is responsible for receiving all TSO demands and bids for mFRR based on standard products and provide this information to the AOF module, which will perform the optimisation and determine the satisfaction of balancing demands. Additionally, the respective available capacities on relevant interconnectors are submitted by TSOs to the data management module and forwarded by it to the optimisation module. The service provider is expected to perform software development of this module, as well as provide service and maintenance during operation of this module of the platform.
According to the price sheets “Annex 3 - Price List MARI - Lot 2” / optional extension of the contract duration
Potential applicants can send questions to the contracting authority up to maximum 4 calendar days before the application deadline. Should the questions or answers be of interest to all potential applicants, they will be made available in anonymous form at the URL address given (see point I.3).
For reasons of confidentiality, Annex 5 "Zip-Datei mit Technischen Anlagen" is transmitted only after submission of a NDA within the application procedure. The contracting authority reserves the right to refrain from transmitting the NDA and the confidential documents in the event of obviously abusive requests.
(1) ‘Current’ means not older than 6 months backdated from the date of Expiry of the participation period.
(2) If an applicant cannot present a third-party certificate, e.g. a register entry, a comparable third party certificate has to be submitted. Furthermore, the applicant has to prove the comparability by an additional explanation.
(3) In principle, applicants must submit the required declarations/ evidence in German or English or in an officially certified translation. If a declaration/ evidence cannot be submitted at all, the applicant has to state the reasons for this, submit a comparable declaration/ evidence and explain - in German or English - why the comparability exists.
(4) Consortium: Together with the request to participate, the consortium must submit a legally binding declaration signed and completed by all members of the consortium. Particular attention must be paid to the aspect of compliance of the formation of the consortium with cartel law. Each member of the consortium must submit the proof of suitability in accordance with III.1.1.


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