National Network, Local Connections Programme – Flexibility Services Pilot
Electricity Supply Board ( ESB )
Call for Competition with a Pre Qualification Questionnaire for the National Network, Local Connections Programme – Flexibility Services Pilot.
DeadlineThe time limit for receipt of tenders was 2022-02-10. The procurement was published on 2021-12-20.
SuppliersThe following suppliers are mentioned in award decisions or other procurement documents:
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Procurement history
| Date | Document |
|---|---|
| 2021-12-20 | Contract notice |
| 2023-01-20 | Contract award notice |
Contract notice (2021-12-20)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Electricity distribution and related services
Reference number: D20/CON/888 (CS1A888)
Short description:
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 distribution and related services 📦
Additional CPV: Electricity distribution 📦
Place of performance
NUTS region: Éire/Ireland 🏙️
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 ( ESB )
Postal address: 2 Gateway
Postal code: East Wall Road
Postal town: Dublin 3
Contact
Internet address: http://www.esb.ie 🌏
E-mail: networks.procurement@esb.ie 📧
Phone: +353 860601928 📞
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=203821&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
URL for participation: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=203821&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2021-12-20 📅
Submission deadline: 2022-02-10 📅
Publication date: 2021-12-24 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2021/S 250-664928
Refers to notice: 2021/S 207-542895
OJ-S issue: 250
Additional information
Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
Duration: 36 months
Description of renewals:
Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
Suitability to pursue the professional activity:
Procedure
Legal basis: 32014L0025
Number of participants to be contemplated: 24
Time of receipt of tenders: 12:00
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Tender validity period: 6 months
Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: N/a
Contact
Contact point: Maura Moloney
Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/377 🌏
Documents URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=203821&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
Reference
Additional information
Complementary information
Review body
Name: Chief Registrar
Postal address: Four Courts, Inns Quay
Postal town: Dublin 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 18886000 📞
Internet address: http://www.courts.ie 🌏
Body responsible for mediation procedures
Name: N/a
Postal town: N/a
Source: OJS 2021/S 250-664928 (2021-12-20)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Electricity distribution and related services
Reference number: D20/CON/888 (CS1A888)
Short description:
Call for Competition with a Pre Qualification Questionnaire for the National Network, Local Connections Programme – Flexibility Services Pilot.
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 distribution and related services 📦
Additional CPV: Electricity distribution 📦
Place of performance
NUTS region: Éire/Ireland 🏙️
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 ( ESB )
Postal address: 2 Gateway
Postal code: East Wall Road
Postal town: Dublin 3
Contact
Internet address: http://www.esb.ie 🌏
E-mail: networks.procurement@esb.ie 📧
Phone: +353 860601928 📞
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=203821&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
URL for participation: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=203821&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2021-12-20 📅
Submission deadline: 2022-02-10 📅
Publication date: 2021-12-24 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2021/S 250-664928
Refers to notice: 2021/S 207-542895
OJ-S issue: 250
Additional information
NOTE 1 - Please note the following information in relation to notice sections above IV.1.3 "...number of
participates to the framework agreement 24"
The number of 24 stated in section IV.1.3 is an estimate of a final maximum number of service providers that may be required. However, the number of Service Providers ultimately appointed will be the number determined by the Contracting Entity to be sufficient to provide the services required under the Framework. That number may be greater than or less than 24.
More information will be set out at the Request for Tender stage of the Procurement
process.
NOTE 2 - ESB is conscious that Applicants offices may close for the Christmas/New Year period and may not be able to action this notice and PQQ until 1st week in January 2022. The deadline/closing dates have therefore been set to take account of that.
ESB’s Procurement offices are closed from 23/12/2021 until 3/1/2022. Queries sent during that time will not receive a response. Office will reopen on 4/1/2022.
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Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
The Contracting Entity wishes to procure flexibility services for the national electricity distribution system in Republic of Ireland pursuant to a framework agreement. Flexibility Services can be provided by suitably qualified distribution connected customers (generation, storage or demand response individually or via aggregation) that can alter their consumption or generation pattern to support ESB Networks in its role as the Distribution System Operator (DSO) in delivering a safe, secure and efficient distribution system.
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Description of renewals:
Note that the duration in months stated above represents the duration of the Framework
Agreement in the event that the Contracting Entity exercises its option to extend the
Framework Agreement beyond its initial two years, for a further one year.
Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
Suitability to pursue the professional activity:
As stated in Procurement Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 204449
Economic and financial standing:
As stated in Procurement Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 204449
Technical and professional ability:
As stated in Procurement Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 204449
Procedure
Legal basis: 32014L0025
Number of participants to be contemplated: 24
Time of receipt of tenders: 12:00
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Tender validity period: 6 months
Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: N/a
Contact
Contact point: Maura Moloney
Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/377 🌏
Documents URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=203821&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
Reference
Additional information
NOTE 1 - Please note the following information in relation to notice sections above IV.1.3 "...number of
participates to the framework agreement 24"
The number of 24 stated in section IV.1.3 is an estimate of a final maximum number of service providers that may be required. However, the number of Service Providers ultimately appointed will be the number determined by the Contracting Entity to be sufficient to provide the services required under the Framework. That number may be greater than or less than 24.
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More information will be set out at the Request for Tender stage of the Procurement
process.
NOTE 2 - ESB is conscious that Applicants offices may close for the Christmas/New Year period and may not be able to action this notice and PQQ until 1st week in January 2022. The deadline/closing dates have therefore been set to take account of that.
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ESB’s Procurement offices are closed from 23/12/2021 until 3/1/2022. Queries sent during that time will not receive a response. Office will reopen on 4/1/2022.
Complementary information
Review body
Name: Chief Registrar
Postal address: Four Courts, Inns Quay
Postal town: Dublin 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 18886000 📞
Internet address: http://www.courts.ie 🌏
Body responsible for mediation procedures
Name: N/a
Postal town: N/a
Source: OJS 2021/S 250-664928 (2021-12-20)
Contract award notice (2023-01-20)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Reference number: D20/CON/888
Short description: National Network, Local Connections Programme – Flexibility Services Pilot 1.
Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice
Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable
Award criteria
Lowest price
Contracting authority
Identity
Awarding authority name: Electricity Supply Board (ESB)
Postal address: 27 Lower Fitzwilliam Street
Postal code: Dublin 2
Postal town: Dublin
Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2023-01-20 📅
Publication date: 2023-01-25 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2023/S 018-050692
Refers to notice: 2021/S 250-664928
OJ-S issue: 18
Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
Place of performance
Main site or place of performance: IRELAND
Award of contract
Date of contract conclusion: 2022-09-26 📅
Name: Endeco technologies ltd t/a grid beyond
Postal address: 3015 Lake Drive Citywest Business Park
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: DUBLIN 24
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: Dublin 24
Name: Electricity Exchange DAC t/a VIOTAS
Postal address: Bord Na Mona, Main Street, Newbridge
Postal town: Kildare
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 2
Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: n/a
Contact
Contact point: Edel Smyth
Internet address: www.esb.ie 🌏
Complementary information
Review body
Name: The High Court (only after review with ESB Networks Procurement)
Postal address: The Chief Registrar, Four Courts, Inns Quay
Postal town: Dublin
Source: OJS 2023/S 018-050692 (2023-01-20)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Reference number: D20/CON/888
Short description: National Network, Local Connections Programme – Flexibility Services Pilot 1.
Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice
Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable
Award criteria
Lowest price
Contracting authority
Identity
Awarding authority name: Electricity Supply Board (ESB)
Postal address: 27 Lower Fitzwilliam Street
Postal code: Dublin 2
Postal town: Dublin
Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2023-01-20 📅
Publication date: 2023-01-25 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2023/S 018-050692
Refers to notice: 2021/S 250-664928
OJ-S issue: 18
Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
National Network, Local Connections Programme – Flexibility Services Pilot.
National electricity distribution system in Republic of Ireland pursuant to a framework agreement. Flexibility Services provided by suitably qualified distribution connected customers (generation, storage or demand response individually or via aggregation) that can alter their consumption or generation pattern to support ESB Networks in its role as the Distribution System Operator (DSO) in delivering a safe, secure and efficient distribution system.
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Main site or place of performance: IRELAND
Award of contract
Date of contract conclusion: 2022-09-26 📅
Name: Endeco technologies ltd t/a grid beyond
Postal address: 3015 Lake Drive Citywest Business Park
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: DUBLIN 24
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: Dublin 24
Name: Electricity Exchange DAC t/a VIOTAS
Postal address: Bord Na Mona, Main Street, Newbridge
Postal town: Kildare
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 2
Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: n/a
Contact
Contact point: Edel Smyth
Internet address: www.esb.ie 🌏
Complementary information
Review body
Name: The High Court (only after review with ESB Networks Procurement)
Postal address: The Chief Registrar, Four Courts, Inns Quay
Postal town: Dublin
Source: OJS 2023/S 018-050692 (2023-01-20)
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