ENQEIR409 - Provision of Local Reserve

EirGrid plc

The risk of a local shortage of generation adequacy is caused by restrictions on the transmission network. The Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation (NIAUR) has written to SONI requesting it to explore arrangements, such as putting in place relevant System Support Services, to alleviate some or all of the risk identified. NIAUR has noted that any such arrangements should be time limited and that any additional costs of putting in place such measures should be reasonable and proportionate. NIAUR has also stated that the arrangements should be consistent with, or at least capable of interacting effectively with, the Single Electricity Market (SEM) arrangements. SONI is issuing this PQQ and conducting this procurement exercise in fulfillment of NIAUR's request.
SONI and EirGrid have recently published the Generation Capacity Statement for 2014-23. In this, SONI concludes that 'if more than one prolonged generation outage happened at the same time, then Northern Ireland's generation adequacy would drop below standard, and thus placing security of supply at increased risk. This particular risk could be managed by the addition of between 220 and 300 MW of extra plant'. It is anticipated that the ability to reduce demand by an equivalent amount would also resolve this issue. This procurement exercise aims to procure the services necessary to resolve this shortfall.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2014-04-14. The procurement was published on 2014-03-14.

Who?

• EirGrid plc

What?

• Agricultural services › Composting services
• Building materials › Cement
• Chemical products › Gases
• Construction work for warehouses and industrial buildings › Cold-storage installations
• Electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy › Electricity
• Food, beverages, tobacco and related products › Animal products, meat and meat products
• Fruit vegetables › Mushrooms
• Information-processing equipment › Warehouse management system
• Mining, basic metals and related products › Related mining and quarrying products
• Miscellaneous construction materials › Miscellaneous construction materials in wood
• Miscellaneous food products and dried goods › Processed food products
• Miscellaneous non-metallic mineral products › Glass
• Public utilities › Electricity distribution and related services
• Sewer construction work › Water-treatment work › Wastewater pumping station
• Sewerage management services › Operation of a sewage plant
• Specialist agricultural or forestry machinery › Machinery for preparing animal feeding stuffs

Where?

• United Kingdom › Northern Ireland

Procurement history

Date	Document
2014-03-14	Contract notice

Contract notice (2014-03-14)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Electricity
Notice metadata
Original language: English 🗣️
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Services
Regulation: European Union, with participation of GPA countries
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Electricity 📦

Procedure
Procedure type: Negotiated procedure
Type of bid: Submission for all lots
Award criteria
The most economic tender

Contracting authority
Identity
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Awarding authority type: Utilities entity
Awarding authority name: EirGrid plc
Postal address: Block 2 - The Oval, 160 Shelbourne Rd, Ballsbridge
Postal code: 4
Postal town: Dublin
Contact
Internet address: http://www.eirgrid.com 🌏
E-mail: noreen.magowan@soni.ltd.uk 📧
Phone: +44 2890707406 📞

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2014-03-14 📅
Submission deadline: 2014-04-14 📅
Publication date: 2014-03-19 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2014/S 055-092875
OJ-S issue: 55
Additional information

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Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

SONI and EirGrid have recently published the Generation Capacity Statement for 2014-23. In this, SONI concludes that 'if more than one prolonged generation outage happened at the same time, then Northern Ireland's generation adequacy would drop below standard, and thus placing security of supply at increased risk. This particular risk could be managed by the addition of between 220 and 300 MW of extra plant'. It is anticipated that the ability to reduce demand by an equivalent amount would also resolve this issue. This procurement exercise aims to procure the services necessary to resolve this shortfall.

Description of options: