Lot 1: Electric Vehicle Enablement, Aggregation and Settlement System; Lot 2: Charge Point Management System

Electricity Supply Board

ESB wishes to place a Contract for the supply and ongoing operational support of an EV Enablement, Aggregation and Settlement System (EVEAS) and a Charge Point Management System (CPMS). These systems to be provided on a vendor hosted managed services basis. Interested parties may bid for the EVEAS (Lot 1), the CPMS (Lot 2) or both. If bidding for both, parties should indicate whether the managed service comprises a single system or two systems with interfaces between them. Both systems should be able to correctly process and respond to messages conforming to the Open Charge Point Protocol (OCPP), or recognised equivalent open standard.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2014-05-09. The procurement was published on 2014-04-03.

Who?

• Electricity Supply Board

What?

• IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

Where?

• Dublin

Procurement history

Date	Document
2014-04-03	Contract notice
2014-04-08	Additional information

Contract notice (2014-04-03)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Quantity or scope:

ESB ecars is in the process of completing one of the largest public EV Charge Point Infrastructures in Europe. ESB now wishes to place a Contract for the supply and ongoing operational support of an EV Enablement, Aggregation and Settlement System (EVEAS) and a Charge Point Management System (CPMS).Interested parties may bid for the EVEAS (Lot 1), the CPMS (Lot 2) or both. The solution, or solutions, should be delivered to ESB ecars on an ongoing vendor hosted managed services basis (Software/Application as a Service).If bidding for both, parties should indicate whether the managed service comprises a single system or two systems with interfaces between them.The EV Enablement, Aggregation and Settlement System (EVEAS) (Lot 1) should provide a comprehensive range of services for the management of the Electric Vehicles and the charging activities/accounts of their owners. .— The solution should be highly scalable and flexible on order to meet the changing demands of the electric vehicle market.— The solution should provide a high level of availability, data security, backup and data integrity.— The solution should provide for an interconnection to charge posts and the secure capture of recharge events.— It should also have the potential to support/expose web services designed to support international roaming and settlement for full EV and plug-in hybrid charging abroad.In addition to this base functionality the bidders should outline any capabilities to support or add financial support services, customer relationship management services, customer support services and charge detail record aggregation to allow full energy market settlement, both retail and wholesale.The Charge Point Management System (CPMS) (Lot 2) should provide a range of services for the real-time monitoring, management and control of the EVSE (Charge Point) infrastructure.— The CPMS should be able to act as a termination point for our data network, a secure global M2M APN/VPN or equivalent (currently provided via the Vodafone Global M2M Service).— The CPMS should also support charge point traffic routed via server to server VPN's if required.— The CPMS should be able to parse, and respond correctly to, OCPP messages using multiple versions of OCPP (1.2, 1.5, 2.0 and ongoing GA releases mandated by the Open Chargepoint Alliance (OCA) or established equivalent open standard..— The CPMS should provide monitoring tools via a web based NOC (Network Operations Centre) that will automatically cycle through a number of system and charge point monitoring screens and highlight exception events to a human user monitoring the NOC.— The CPMS should also generate logs and e-mail alerts if system or individual charge point exceptions should arise.— The CPMS should support different layers of access including, but not limited to:-— An Admin/Network level logon to allow self-service management of the CPMS, adding/amending charge points, customers (etc.)— A Call Centre layer to allow an appropriate subset of commands to be used by call centre agents and trusted infrastructure support providers.— A customer layer to allow EV users to monitor their usage of the public charge point infrastructure, CP's used, energy consumed, CO2 savings, (etc.)— The CPMS should provide interfaces to the EVEAS (Lot 1) and other systems either via secure VPN's, SSL over HTTPS, or other agreed secure mechanisms.ESB invites expressions of interest from vendors in the provision of a vendor hosted managed service (or services) to meet ESB ecars requirements. Your response should be delivered by email to the above contact name.

Quantity or scope

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: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support 📦

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

Contracting authority
Identity
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Awarding authority type: Utilities entity
Awarding authority name: Electricity Supply Board
Postal address: 27 Lower Fitzwilliam Street
Postal code: 2
Postal town: Dublin
Contact
Internet address: http://www.esb.ie 🌏
E-mail: ssprocurement@esb.ie 📧
Phone: +353 17026157 📞
Fax: +353 16384757 📠

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2014-04-03 📅
Submission deadline: 2014-05-09 📅
Publication date: 2014-04-08 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2014/S 069-119539
OJ-S issue: 69

Object
Scope of the procurement
Service category: 7
Short description:

Lot number: 1
Title of the lot: EV Enablement, Aggregation and Settlement System (EVEAS)
Short description:

The EV Enablement, Aggregation and Settlement System (EVEAS) (Lot 1) should provide a comprehensive range of services for the management of the Electric Vehicles and the charging activities/accounts of their owners. .

Quantity or scope:

— The solution should be highly scalable and flexible on order to meet the changing demands of the electric vehicle market.

— The solution should provide a high level of availability, data security, backup and data integrity.

— The solution should provide for an interconnection to charge posts and the secure capture of recharge events.

— It should also have the potential to support/expose web services designed to support international roaming and settlement for full EV and plug-in hybrid charging abroad.

In addition to this base functionality the bidders should outline any capabilities to support or add financial support services, customer relationship management services, customer support services and charge detail record aggregation to allow full energy market settlement, both retail and wholesale.

Additional information about the lots:

If bidding for both lots, parties should indicate whether the vendor hosted managed service comprises a single system or two systems with interfaces between them. Both systems should be able to correctly process and respond to messages conforming to the Open Charge Point Protocol (OCPP), or recognised equivalent open standard.

Lot number: 2
Title of the lot: Charge Point Management System (CPMS)
Short description:

The Charge Point Management System (CPMS) (Lot 2) should provide a range of services for the real-time monitoring, management and control of the EVSE (Charge Point) infrastructure.

Quantity or scope:

The Charge Point Management System (CPMS) (Lot 2) should provide a range of services for the real-time monitoring, management and control of the EVSE (Charge Point) infrastructure.

— The CPMS should be able to act as a termination point for our data network, a secure global M2M APN/VPN or equivalent (currently provided via the Vodafone Global M2M Service).

— The CPMS should also support charge point traffic routed via server to server VPN's if required.

— The CPMS should be able to parse, and respond correctly to, OCPP messages using multiple versions of OCPP (1.2, 1.5, 2.0 and ongoing GA releases mandated by the Open Chargepoint Alliance (OCA).

— The CPMS should provide monitoring tools via a web based NOC (Network Operations Centre) that will automatically cycle through a number of system and charge point monitoring screens and highlight exception events to a human user monitoring the NOC.

— The CPMS should also generate logs and e-mail alerts if system or individual charge point exceptions should arise.

— The CPMS should support different layers of access including, but not limited to:-

— An Admin/Network level logon to allow self-service management of the CPMS, adding/amending charge points, customers (etc.)

— A Call Centre layer to allow an appropriate subset of commands to be used by call centre agents and trusted infrastructure support providers.

— A customer layer to allow EV users to monitor their usage of the public charge point infrastructure, CP's used, energy consumed, CO2 savings, (etc.)

— The CPMS should provide interfaces to the EVEAS (Lot 1) and other systems either via secure VPN's, SSL over HTTPS, or other agreed secure mechanisms.

Interested parties may bid for the EVEAS (Lot 1), the CPMS (Lot 2) or both. The solution, or solutions, should be delivered to ESB ecars on an ongoing vendor hosted managed services basis (Software/Application as a Service).

If bidding for both, parties should indicate whether the managed service comprises a single system or two systems with interfaces between them.

— The solution should provide a high level of availability, data security, backup and data integrity.

— The CPMS should be able to parse, and respond correctly to, OCPP messages using multiple versions of OCPP (1.2, 1.5, 2.0 and ongoing GA releases mandated by the Open Chargepoint Alliance (OCA) or established equivalent open standard..

— The CPMS should also generate logs and e-mail alerts if system or individual charge point exceptions should arise.

— The CPMS should support different layers of access including, but not limited to:-

— An Admin/Network level logon to allow self-service management of the CPMS, adding/amending charge points, customers (etc.)

— A Call Centre layer to allow an appropriate subset of commands to be used by call centre agents and trusted infrastructure support providers.

— A customer layer to allow EV users to monitor their usage of the public charge point infrastructure, CP's used, energy consumed, CO2 savings, (etc.)

ESB invites expressions of interest from vendors in the provision of a vendor hosted managed service (or services) to meet ESB ecars requirements. Your response should be delivered by email to the above contact name.

Description of options:

ESB reserves the right to renew the contract for additional period of up to 3 years.

Reference number: SS/CON/1987
Place of performance
Main site or place of performance: Dublin.

Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
Suitability to pursue the professional activity:

If you wish to be considered for inclusion in this tender process you must provide: A) Full contact details including contact name, e-mail address, postal address, phone and fax numbers; B) a brief summary of company size, organisation, manpower, location, date of establishment, history.

Economic and financial standing:

Evidence of overall turnover and profitability for the last 3 years (audited accounts).

Technical and professional ability:

It is expected that suppliers will have provided managed services with the general scope outlined above. A Request for proposal will only be issued to qualifying suppliers.

Vendors are requested to provide summary details of their most recent engagements relating to some or all of the work outlined in Section II.2.1 above, including customer contact names, dates and contract scale/duration.

Please submit your expression of interest by email to the contact in Section 1.1 above.

Contract execution
Deposits and guarantees required: Will be specified in tender documents.
Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them: Will be specified in tender documents.
Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:

Where a grouping of service providers express interest, it shall be a requirement of ESB that one member of the group accept full contractual responsibility for delivery of the services. Where appropriate the intended contractual responsibility member of any grouping or consortium must be identified in responding to this notice.

Procedure
Number of operators of the framework agreement: 2
Duration of the framework agreement in years: 2

Contracting authority
Contact
Contact point: Procurement, Business Service Centre
Donie Cahalane
Internet address: www.esb.ie 🌏
URL for documents: www.esb.ie/ecars 🌏

Complementary information
Review body
Name: Chief Registrar, The High Court
Postal address: Four Courts, Inns Quay
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Name: Supplier's own legal advisor
Source: OJS 2014/S 069-119539 (2014-04-03)

Additional information (2014-04-08)
Object
Notice metadata
Document type: Additional information

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2014-04-08 📅
Publication date: 2014-04-12 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2014/S 073-126820
Refers to notice: 2014/S 69-119539
OJ-S issue: 73
Source: OJS 2014/S 073-126820 (2014-04-08)

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