Supply and Implementation of Contracts Management and Settlement System

Electricity Supply Board

To support ESB's growth strategy in Renewables Generation, ESB is looking to procure a Contracts Management and Settlement System to manage all Back Office operations for its Renewables Contracts. ESB intends to award contracts for the supply and implementation of a Renewables Contracts Management and Settlement Systems.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2014-04-30. The procurement was published on 2014-03-25.

Who?

• Electricity Supply Board

What?

• Software-related services › Software implementation services

Where?

• Dublin

Procurement history

Date	Document
2014-03-25	Contract notice

Contract notice (2014-03-25)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Quantity or scope:

ESB is inviting expressions of interest from vendors with the relevant experience for the Supply and implementation of Contracts Management and Settlement System covering but not limited to Contracts Management, including complex contracts management and settlement, ROCs and LECs (UK) management, SCADA metered volume validation, REFIT (ROI) administration and validation, CfD Fit (UK) management and settlement and Market Data.The Contracts Management and Settlement System must be capable of interfacing to SAP R3, Market Data providers, Data Aggregator (UK) providers, Meter Operator systems (MRSO in ROI), Market Operators (SEMO in ROI), Exchanges such as APX, N2EX and SCADA meters and BI tools (SAP Business Objects) to import and export data required to manage the Renewables Contracts.All systems should be capable of integration with ESB Enterprise Integration Architecture using SAP PI (Hub). The Hub will link both internal and external applications. Solutions must fit with ESB technical standards: Windows or AIX Unix Server platform on IBM Hardware, Windows Desktops, enterprise class database technology (DB2/Oracle/SQL Server).Proposed solutions must align with current ESB technical standards for IT. These standards will be detailed at the RFP stage.

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 all 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: 2014-03-25 📅
Submission deadline: 2014-04-30 📅
Publication date: 2014-03-27 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2014/S 061-104292
OJ-S issue: 61

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

Quantity or scope:

The Contracts Management and Settlement System must be capable of interfacing to SAP R3, Market Data providers, Data Aggregator (UK) providers, Meter Operator systems (MRSO in ROI), Market Operators (SEMO in ROI), Exchanges such as APX, N2EX and SCADA meters and BI tools (SAP Business Objects) to import and export data required to manage the Renewables Contracts.

All systems should be capable of integration with ESB Enterprise Integration Architecture using SAP PI (Hub). The Hub will link both internal and external applications. Solutions must fit with ESB technical standards: Windows or AIX Unix Server platform on IBM Hardware, Windows Desktops, enterprise class database technology (DB2/Oracle/SQL Server).

Proposed solutions must align with current ESB technical standards for IT. These standards will be detailed at the RFP stage.

Description of options:

ESB reserves the right to renew the contract for addtional period of up to 12 months.

Reference number: SS/CON/1961
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:

Candidates should provide the following information to ESB via email:

1. Candidate's Name & Address.

2. Full contact details (phone, fax, email) of the representative handling this expression of interest.

3. A brief profile of the Candidate's organisation (date of establishment, overall structure, number of employees per function/location and principal activities in terms of both services & products).

4. Where a candidate intends to engage with other suppliers for delivery and/or implementation of the service, the candidate should submit a similar company profile for each of these suppliers together with details of previous experience of having worked in conjunction with these suppliers.

Economic and financial standing: Will be specified in tender documents.
Technical and professional ability:

Vendors should provide summary details of the three most recent, relevant examples of projects undertaken of a similar application and scale, for supply and implementation of a Contracts Management and Settlement solution including full customer details and reference information. The examples should be relating to some or all of the requirements in Section II.2.1 above.

Expressions of interest will not be accepted from vendors who only provide implementation services. A Request for Proposal will only be issued to qualifying vendors.

Please submit your expression of interest by email.

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
Duration of the framework agreement in years: 2

Contracting authority
Contact
Contact point: Procurement, Business Service Centre
Donie Cahalane
Internet address: www.esb.ie 🌏

Complementary information
Review body
Name: Chief Registrar, The High Court
Postal address: Four Courts, Inns Quay
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Internet address: www.courts.ie 🌏
Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Name: Supplier's own legal advisor
Source: OJS 2014/S 061-104292 (2014-03-25)

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