Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2024-01-04
Buyer: Amprion GmbH
Region: DEA22
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated with prior call for competition
CPV classification: 72000000
Submission deadline: 2024-02-12
Award criteria: price, quality

Technical requirements: Exclusion grounds applicable as stipulated by §§123 and 124 GWB in connection with §142 No.2 GWB (GWB = Act against Restraints of Competition)
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.
The following documents must be submitted as proof of the eligibility criterion: 
(a) Current extract from the professional or commercial register (not older than 6 months retroactively to the end of the participation period). 
(b) Self-declaration stating that the company and, where applicable, the persons on whose capacities the company relies do not fulfill any grounds for exclusion pursuant to Sections 123, 124 of the Act against Restraints of Competition (GWB). 
Annex "A2_ Application questionaire_MARI" must be submitted.
The following documents must be submitted as proof of the eligibility criterion: 
(a) The total turnover in the last 3 completed financial years and, if available, the turnover with comparable services in the last 3 completed financial years must be submitted with the application to participate. 
(b) Annual financial statements or alternatively balance sheets (deviation must be justified) or, if these cannot be submitted, a profit and loss account for the last two completed financial years must be submitted with the application to participate. 
(c) Submission of an insurance certificate confirming the existence of public liability insurance; alternatively (deviation to be justified by the bidder) a certificate from an insurance company stating that such insurance cover will exist for the bidder if the contract is awarded. The contractor is obliged to provide Amprion with a corresponding confirmation of cover from the insurer
within two weeks of concluding the contract, insofar as Amprion does not yet have a valid confirmation of cover. The respective coverage amount of the insurance is not a limitation of liability. The annex "A2_Application questionaire_MARI" must be submitted. 

The following minimum requirements apply: 
(a) The applicant must prove that it has generated a turnover of at least: € 10,000,000 for each year in the last 3 financial years.
(b) The liability insurance must not fall below the minimum cover of € 5,000,000 for personal injury and damage to property and resulting
consequential damage.
(a) References from comparable projects References of comparable services from the last 8 financial years with details of the client, the country in which the service was provided, the scope of services, the type of project, the project duration and the year of commissioning using the reference list provided by the client. 
(b) Project language Selfdeclaration that the applicant is able to submit the project documents in English and to communicate in English during the project. 
(c) Number of employees Please state how many employees the company has and how many employees are planned for this contract. 
(d) No conflicting interests
Submission of a self-declaration that the applicant has no interests that conflict with and could impair the performance of the public contract and, in particular, has not been involved in the development of the MARI software. 
Annex "A2_Application questionaire_MARI" must be completed and submitted. 

The following minimum requirements apply: 
(a) References 
It is required that experience with regard to the "Electricity Market CIM document standard" (ISO 62325-451 or comparable references) can be
demonstrated in at least one project. To this end, the bidder must mark the project in the reference list in which this experience was acquired. 
(b) Language 
The contact person named by the bidder for the award procedure must have at least level B2 (Cambridge English Qualifications) or
equivalent. 
(c) Number of employees 
The minimum number of employees in the company is 100 FTE. 

References are evaluated as following: A total score of 50 points can be achieved. There are 5 sub-categories with a maximum of 10 points each. 
1. A maximum of 10 points can be awarded for the number of general references. For example, if a bidder lists 29 references, it will be awarded 9 points. A bidder receives the full number of points if they provide at least 35 references. Proportionally fewer points are awarded for fewer references. 
2. A maximum of 10 points can be awarded for the level of detail of the general references. If the references are not described, the bidder receives 0 points. The bidder receives 5 points for
bullet points and 10 points for a detailed description. 
3. 10 points can be awarded for the number of references in the energy market. Full points are awarded for 6 or more references. Proportionally fewer points are awarded for fewer references. 4. A maximum of 10 points can be achieved for the hours of references in the energy market. From 29,251 hours, 10 points are awarded. Proportionally fewer points are awarded for fewer hours. 
5. 10 points can be achieved for the hours of testing references. From 315,001 hours, 10 points are awarded. Proportionally fewer points are awarded for fewer hours. 
Purpose and intended result of the selection phase is to select a maximum of four (4) candidates for the Awarding phase. Therefore, references will be used as a scoring criterion to determine a ranking if more than four (4) applicants meet all minimum and eligibility requirements. 
For further details see "Annex 2_Award Criteria" Chapter 2.2.