Consultancy Support for Gas Transmission and Distribution Revenue Controls (2017-2022)

Commission for Energy Regulation

The Commission for Energy Regulation (CER) is Ireland's independent energy and water regulator. The CER was established in 1999 and now has a wide range of economic, customer protection and safety responsibilities in energy. The CER is also the regulator of Ireland's public water and wastewater system.
Under Section 14 of the Gas (Interim) Regulation, Act 2002 (as amended) the CER approves charges for use of the gas systems; both transmission and distribution. CER is also required to set the revenues that Gas Networks Ireland (GNI) as Transmission System Operator (TSO) and Distribution System Operator (DSO) is allowed to recover over the revenue control periods.
Tenderers should note that since August 2014, Gas Networks Ireland (GNI) is the new name for what was formerly known as Bord Gáis Networks (BGN). In addition, with the sale of the supply arm (Bord Gáis Energy) Gaslink has now been integrated back into the Gas Networks Ireland business.
Therefore, for clarity CER is now procuring consultancy support for the GNI Transmission and Distribution revenue controls to run from October 2017 to September 2022.
At present these revenues are determined every five years for the following five year period. This Price Control will be the fourth such regulatory allowance period.
CER now wishes to engage consultants to provide both technical and economic consultancy support and advice and financial consultancy support and advice for this Price Control.
The consultancy support required for this project has been divided into two separate elements. Specifically, parties are invited to tender separately for:
— Lot 1 — the provision of technical and economic advice; and,
— Lot 2 — the provision of financial advice.
A detailed specification of requirements is set out in Section of the Invitation to Tender (ITT) available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2016-02-02. The procurement was published on 2015-12-18.

Suppliers

The following suppliers are mentioned in award decisions or other procurement documents:

Who?

• Commission for Energy Regulation

What?

Where?

• Éire/Ireland

Procurement history

Date	Document
2015-12-18	Contract notice
2016-07-25	Contract award notice

Contract notice (2015-12-18)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Technical analysis or consultancy services
Quantity or scope:

Please refer to the Section 2 of the Invitation to Tender document, available to download from the contract notice on www.etenders.gov.ie for a detailed terms of reference.

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: Technical analysis or consultancy services 📦

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

Contracting authority
Identity
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Awarding authority type: Not specified
Awarding authority name: Commission for Energy Regulation
Postal address: The Exchange, Belgard Square North, Tallaght
Postal code: 24
Postal town: Dublin
Contact
Internet address: http://www.cer.ie 🌏
E-mail: procurement@cer.ie 📧
Phone: +353 14000800 📞
Fax: +353 14000850 📠

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2015-12-18 📅
Submission deadline: 2016-02-02 📅
Publication date: 2015-12-23 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2015/S 248-452043
OJ-S issue: 248

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

Under Section 14 of the Gas (Interim) Regulation, Act 2002 (as amended) the CER approves charges for use of the gas systems; both transmission and distribution. CER is also required to set the revenues that Gas Networks Ireland (GNI) as Transmission System Operator (TSO) and Distribution System Operator (DSO) is allowed to recover over the revenue control periods.

Tenderers should note that since August 2014, Gas Networks Ireland (GNI) is the new name for what was formerly known as Bord Gáis Networks (BGN). In addition, with the sale of the supply arm (Bord Gáis Energy) Gaslink has now been integrated back into the Gas Networks Ireland business.

Therefore, for clarity CER is now procuring consultancy support for the GNI Transmission and Distribution revenue controls to run from October 2017 to September 2022.

At present these revenues are determined every five years for the following five year period. This Price Control will be the fourth such regulatory allowance period.

CER now wishes to engage consultants to provide both technical and economic consultancy support and advice and financial consultancy support and advice for this Price Control.

The consultancy support required for this project has been divided into two separate elements. Specifically, parties are invited to tender separately for:

— Lot 1 — the provision of technical and economic advice; and,

— Lot 2 — the provision of financial advice.

A detailed specification of requirements is set out in Section of the Invitation to Tender (ITT) available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie

Lot number: 1
Title of the lot: Technical and Economic Advice for Gas Transmission and Distribution Revenue Controls (2017-2022)
Short description:

Please refer to the Scope of Requirements as set out in Section 2.1 of the ITT and Deliverables as set out in Section 2.2 of the…

… ITT.The ITT is available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie

… ITT.

The ITT is available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie
Lot number: 2
Title of the lot: Financial Advice for Gas Transmission and Distribution Revenue Controls (2017-2022)
Short description:

Please refer to the Scope of Requirements as set out in Section 2.3 of the ITT and Deliverables as set out in Section 2.4 of the…

… ITT.The ITT is available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie

… ITT.

Reference number: 011-03-336
Place of performance
Main site or place of performance: Tallaght.

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

All tenderers are required to complete a Declaration of Bona Fides pursuant to Article 45 EU Directive 2001/1/EC (See Appendix B of Invitation for Tender).

Economic and financial standing:

Please refer to Section 4.1 of the Invitation to Tender document, available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie for relevant conditions with respect to Qualification Criteria applicable to this contract.

Technical and professional ability:

Contract execution
Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:

After contract award a schedule of payments (highlighting delivery related milestones) will be agreed with the successful tenderers for both Lots.

Indicative milestone schedules are provided in Section 3 of the Invitation to Tender (ITT).

The Commission for Energy Regulation operates in accordance with the European Communities (Late Payment in Commercial Transactions) Regulations 2002.

Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:

A grouping, if successful, must contract as a single entity, having joint and severable liability.

Names and professional qualifications of the staff ✅

Procedure
Tender validity period: 160 days
Languages
Language: English 🗣️
Irish 🗣️

Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: N/a
Contact
Contact point: Theresa Metcalfe
Address of the buyer profile: http://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Supplier/CompanyInformation/Index/1232 🌏
URL for participation: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=95281&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=95281&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏

Reference
Identifiers
Reference number attributed by the contracting authority: 011-03-336

Complementary information
Review body
Name: The High Court
Postal address: Chief Registrar, Four Courts, Inns Quay
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Internet address: http://www.courts.ie 🌏
Source: OJS 2015/S 248-452043 (2015-12-18)

Contract award notice (2016-07-25)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

The Commission for Energy Regulation (CER) is Ireland's independent energy and water regulator. The CER was established in 1999 and has a wide range of economic, customer protection and safety responsibilities in energy. Under Section 14 of the Gas(Interim) Regulation, Act 2002 (as amended) the CER approves charges for use of the gas systems; both transmission and distribution. CER is required to set the revenues that Gas Networks Ireland as Transmission System Operator and Distribution System Operator can recover over the revenue control periods. Please note that since August 2014, Gas Networks Ireland is the new name for Bord Gáis Networks. In addition, with the sale of the supply arm (Bord Gáis Energy), Gaslink has now been integrated back into the Gas Networks Ireland business. CER is procuring consultancy support for the GNI Transmission and Distribution revenue controls to run from Oct. 2017 to Sep. 2022. Tender document available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie

Total value of the procurement: 652 201 EUR 💰
Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Additional CPV: Financial consultancy services 📦
Place of performance
NUTS region: United Kingdom 🏙️

Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable

Contracting authority
Identity
Awarding authority type: Body governed by public law

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2016-07-25 📅
Publication date: 2016-07-29 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2016/S 145-261764
Refers to notice: 2015/S 248-452043
OJ-S issue: 145

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

Please refer to the Scope of Requirements as set out in Section…

… 2.1) of the ITT and Deliverables as set out in Section 2.2) of the ITT.

… 2.3) of the ITT and Deliverables as set out in Section 2.4) of the ITT.

Procedure
Award criteria
Quality criterion (name): Quality and technical merit of proposals for providing service detailed in Section 2 of the ITT
Quality criterion (weighting): 30 %
Quality criterion (name): Technical Mertot of the Human Resources Proposed
Approach to knowledge transfer
Quality criterion (weighting): 10 %
Price weighting: 30 %
Quality criterion (name): Technical merit of the Human Resources Proposed

Award of contract
Date of contract conclusion: 2016-04-06 📅
2016-04-07 📅
Source: OJS 2016/S 145-261764 (2016-07-25)

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