Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-11-11
Buyer: ELECTRA S.A. — Cabo Verde
Country: CV
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 72000000
Estimated value: 49980 EUR
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
Supply of a power system modelling simulation tool (PSS®Sincal) license upgrade, maintenance and support for 1 year and training.
Republic of Cabo Verde, São Vicente, City of Mindelo, Av. Dr. Baltazar Lopes da Silva No 10, PO Box 137.
Supply of a power system modelling simulation tool (PSS®Sincal) license upgrade from v11.5 to 16.5 for two existing PC Bound licenses with unrestricted site usage, maintenance and support (M&S) for 1 year and 1-week training session at Cabo-Verde.
The simulation tool (i.e. PSS/SINCAL ®) is proprietary trademark of the supplier (i.e. Siemens, SA) with full IP rights.
An older version of this tool (PSS/SINCAL 11.5) was already at Electra’s disposition, where all power system topology and assets are already modelled and maintained in this platform. Thus, the continuation of the use of this platform for system modelling and simulation studies was rationally found the most convenient operational and business alternative. As this old version is no longer supported by.
The simulation tool (i.e. PSS/SINCAL ®) is proprietary trademark of the supplier (i.e. Siemens, SA) with full IP rights.
An older version of this tool (PSS/SINCAL 11.5) was already at Electra’s disposition, where all power system topology and assets are already modelled and maintained in this platform. Thus, the continuation of the use of this platform for system modelling and simulation studies was rationally found the most convenient operational and business alternative. As this old version is no longer supported by Siemens since October 2017, a direct contracting procedure was implemented to update to the latest version — 16.5.
The first-hand training and support from the in-house experts of the supplier — especially when it comes to most novel features in RES and storage plant modelling simulation, EV charging point simulation and protection studies — would benefit Electra’s experts to use and operate the tool independently and efficiently.
For this reason, the PSS SINCAL upgrade to the latest version 16.5 and two (2) blocks of ’services’ are included in the supplier’s offer, upon Electra’s request, namely:
— Maintenance and support – M&S — period (1 year): consisted of a fixed price subscription service including the following list of services, as per supplier’s offer and latest clarifications:
Technical support, via Siemens support center for PSS® SINCAL is located in Austria, composed of Monday to Friday 8.00 to 17.00 remote assistance of up to 60 hours per year.
• access to a platform to submit new ideas and features to enhance the software product, Newsletters.
— Training: as per technical offer, the training offer is consisted of a lump sum price, including preparation and 5-days on-site training (In Portuguese) with mobilisation of two experts, for up to 15 participants. A high-level cost estimation using common market rates — as in followings: fairly approximates the supplier’s offer, thus found reasonable.


Winner: SIEMENS, SA
Award value: 49980
Number of bids: 1