Ramping Margin Tool

Short description

EirGrid has a requirement for a Ramping Margin Tool to be developed and deployed in the control centres. This tool enables grid controllers to accurately schedule the Ramping Margin reserve services, thereby enabling more effective management of changing demand and generation profiles with increased wind integration. The scope of this contract will be to design and deliver a Ramping Margin Tool to be deployed in the control centres in Ireland and Northern Ireland. The tool will need to take a range of data inputs (outlined in more detail below), perform a calculation to determine the Ramping Margin requirements and input these values back into the EirGrid Market Management System (MMS). The expectation is that this tool will be a key resource to the grid controllers in the control centres and therefore will need to be available on a 24 x 7 basis. The tool will provide a significant contribution to the scheduling, dispatch, real time control and trading processes.

Additional information

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4) Contract award will be subject to the approval of the competent authorities;

5) It will be a condition of award that candidates are tax compliant and are in a position to produce a valid tax clearance certificate or eTax Clearance from the revenue commissioners when requested;

6) If for any reason it is not possible to award the contract 1 or more of the tenderers invited following the conclusion of this competitive process, the contracting authority reserves the right to award the contract to the next ranked tenderer as appropriate;

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