Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2022-04-26
Buyer: RTE Réseau de Transport D'Electricité
Country: FR
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 72600000
Submission deadline: 2022-05-09
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The tendered subject consists in the delivery of PMO Services for the Project of CORE Market Coupling Parties (TSOs and NEMOs). The CORE Flow-Based Market Coupling consists in providing a Flow-Based capacity calculation domain to the European Single Day-Ahead Coupling process (SDAC). A link to the JAO website on the CORE FB project is provided : http://www.jao.eu/core-fb-mc .
CORE TSOs and NEMOs will start operation of Flow-Based Market Coupling (currently planned in April 2022). It is raised by CORE parties that CORE FB MC is a complex day-to-day process, on technical and contractual aspects. We are many parties operating a critical daily process for European electricity market. The CORE parties are composed by 16 TSOs and 10 NEMOs. TSOs are 50Hertz, AMPRION, APG, CEPS, CREOS, ELES, ELIA, HOPS, MAVIR, PSE, RTE, SEPS, Tennet NL, Tennet DE, Transelectrica, Transnet BW; and NEMOs are CROPEX, EXAA, EPEX spot, HUPX, NordPool, OKTE, OPCOM, OTE, BSP, TGE.
The tendering party shall be able to support the CORE parties in the operation of Flow Base Market Coupling in the following tasks:
- The JSC who will have to liaise and report regularly with National Regulatory Authorities and ACER (European Agency for Coordination of Energy Regulators).
The applications which meet the conditions for participation and demonstrate their administrative suitability (III.1.1),  economic and financial standing (III.1.2) as well as their technical and professional ability (III.1.3) constitute the long list.
In the event that the number of candidates making up the long list is greater than the maximum number of candidates admitted to tender, the selection criteria below will be applied in order to determine the short list of suppliers admitted to participate in the consultation. Applications are scored and ranked on the basis of the following selection criteria:
-Quality and number of significant references on assignments in the field of day-ahead and intra-day market coupling integration and experience with flow-based implementation /12 points
-->Demonstrate a sufficient number of PMO profiles by seniority in relation to the purpose of the mission /8 points
-->Demonstrate a typical profile related to the mission on day-ahead and intra-day market coupling integration and experience with flow-based implementation /8 points
— the company full legal name, address, VTA identification number, Registration number, and Dun & Bradstreet (DUNS) Number ;
— a certificate of incorporation/registration (K-Bis) dated within the last 3 months (a document from the authorities of the professional register or an equivalent document certifying this registration);
— Under articles L. 2141-1 to L. 2141-5 No. 2018-1074 of November 26, 2018 of the French public procurement code, the bidder shall provide in its application file a dated and signed sworn statement as justification that it is not concerned by any of the grounds for exclusion as well as the bidder is in compliance with Articles L. 5212-1 to L. 5212-11 of the Labor Code concerning the employment of disabled workers;
Sentences passed by a penal judge relating to corruption, influence peddling, fraud, breach of trust, money laundering, Organization of a criminal conspiracy, for acts of terrorism, for drugs;
Statements of judicial liquidation, bankruptcy or legal redress which do not justify the ability to continue the activities during the foreseeable period of performance of the public contract, recorded by the commercial court;
Deficiencies with regard to social or fiscal obligations, established either by a judge, or by the authorities responsible for tax collection, or by the labour inspectorate services;

Eligibility requirements: I) The candidate shall provide the following information (each criteria is eliminatory): — the company full legal name, address, VTA identification number, Registration number, and Dun & Bradstreet (DUNS) Number ; — a certificate of incorporation/registration (K-Bis) dated within the last 3 months (a document from the authorities of the professional register or an equivalent document certifying this registration); — Under articles L. 2141-1 to L. 2141-5 No. 2018-1074 of November 26, 2018 of the French public procurement code, the bidder shall provide in its application file a dated and signed sworn statement as justification that it is not concerned by any of the grounds for exclusion as well as the bidder is in compliance with Articles L. 5212-1 to L. 5212-11 of the Labor Code concerning the employment of disabled workers; Please note: This is a non-exhaustive list. Sentences passed by a penal judge relating to corruption, influence peddling, fraud, breach of trust, money laundering, Organization of a criminal conspiracy, for acts of terrorism, for drugs; Statements of judicial liquidation, bankruptcy or legal redress which do not justify the ability to continue the activities during the foreseeable period of performance of the public contract, recorded by the commercial court; Deficiencies with regard to social or fiscal obligations, established either by a judge, or by the authorities responsible for tax collection, or by the labour inspectorate services; Violations of rules relating to the fight against illegal employment, noted by the labour inspectorate services. — In case of legal redress, a copy of the pronounced judgement(s). — Candidate belonging to the “EDF Group” or the “Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC) Group”: In order to ensure compliance with the provisions of Articles L111-10 et seq. of the Energy Code, a candidate controlled directly or indirectly by EDF or CDC Group must include in its application file a statement indicating its capital link with one or more companies to the EDF or CDC Group. II) The candidate shall provide as additional information: — Technical and commercial contact details; — List of relevant offices located in Europe; — Staff turnover rate over the last 3 years;