Power Systems Studies Professional Services

Electricity Supply Board (ESB)

The contracting entity intends to procure power systems studies services to appoint a single supplier framework member for each of the three lots below:
• Lot 1 Power system studies;
• Lot 2 Substation earth grid design and testing services;
• Lot 3 Protection studies.
More details are provided in the PQQ document.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2021-05-12. The procurement was published on 2021-04-08.

Suppliers

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

Who?

• Electricity Supply Board (ESB)

What?

Where?

• Éire/Ireland

Procurement history

Date	Document
2021-04-08	Contract notice
2023-09-11	Contract award notice

Contract notice (2021-04-08)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Engineering studies
Reference number: SS CON 5569
Short description:

The contracting entity intends to procure power systems studies services to appoint a single supplier framework member for each of the three lots below: • Lot 1 Power system studies; • Lot 2 Substation earth grid design and testing services; • Lot 3 Protection studies. More details are provided in the PQQ document.

Notice metadata
Original language: English 🗣️
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Services
Regulation: European Union
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Engineering studies 📦
Additional CPV: Engineering services 📦
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, East Wall Road
Postal town: Dublin 3
Contact
Internet address: http://www.esb.ie 🌏
E-mail: jason.weldon@esb.ie 📧
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=186377&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
URL for participation: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=186377&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2021-04-08 📅
Submission deadline: 2021-05-12 📅
Publication date: 2021-04-13 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2021/S 071-182176
OJ-S issue: 71
Additional information

Interested parties must register their interest on the e-Tenders web site (www.etenders.gov.ie) in order to be included on the mailing list for clarifications. All information relating to attachments, including clarifications and changes, will be published on the Irish Government Procurement Opportunities Portal (www.etenders.gov.ie) only. Registration is free of charge. The contracting entity will not accept responsibility for information relayed (or not relayed) via third parties 2) This is the sole call for competition for this service; 3) The contracting entity will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates or tenderers; 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; 6) If for any reason it is not possible to admit to the framework agreement one or more of the tenderers invited following the conclusion of this competitive process, or having awarded a contract under the framework agreement, the contracting entity reserves the right to invite the next highest scoring tenderer to join the framework agreement and/or deliver the contract as appropriate to the circumstances pertaining to the framework; 7) At its absolute discretion, the contracting entity may elect to terminate this procurement process, the framework agreement or any contract awarded under the framework agreement at any time; 8) Please note in relation to all documents, that where reference is made to a particular standard, make, source, process, trademark, type or patent, that this is not to be regarded as a de facto requirement. In all such cases it should be understood that such indications are to be treated strictly and solely for reference purposes only, to which the words ‘or equivalent’ will always be appended; 9) Without prejudice to the principle of equal treatment, the contracting entity is not obliged to engage in a clarification process in respect of questionnaires with missing or incomplete information. Therefore, candidates are advised to ensure that they return fully completed questionnaires in order to avoid the risk of elimination from the competition; 10) At Section II.2.9) we have indicated that 5 applicants will be invited to tender, please note that the contracting entity reserves the right to invite at least 5 applicants subject to that number qualifying.

Additional information

Interested parties must register their interest on the e-Tenders web site (www.etenders.gov.ie) in order to be included on the mailing list for clarifications. All information relating to attachments, including clarifications and changes, will be published on the Irish Government Procurement Opportunities Portal (www.etenders.gov.ie) only. Registration is free of charge. The contracting entity will not accept responsibility for information relayed (or not relayed) via third parties

2) This is the sole call for competition for this service;

3) The contracting entity will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates or tenderers;

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;

6) If for any reason it is not possible to admit to the framework agreement one or more of the tenderers invited following the conclusion of this competitive process, or having awarded a contract under the framework agreement, the contracting entity reserves the right to invite the next highest scoring tenderer to join the framework agreement and/or deliver the contract as appropriate to the circumstances pertaining to the framework;

7) At its absolute discretion, the contracting entity may elect to terminate this procurement process, the framework agreement or any contract awarded under the framework agreement at any time;

8) Please note in relation to all documents, that where reference is made to a particular standard, make, source, process, trademark, type or patent, that this is not to be regarded as a de facto requirement. In all such cases it should be understood that such indications are to be treated strictly and solely for reference purposes only, to which the words ‘or equivalent’ will always be appended;

9) Without prejudice to the principle of equal treatment, the contracting entity is not obliged to engage in a clarification process in respect of questionnaires with missing or incomplete information. Therefore, candidates are advised to ensure that they return fully completed questionnaires in order to avoid the risk of elimination from the competition;

10) At Section II.2.9) we have indicated that 5 applicants will be invited to tender, please note that the contracting entity reserves the right to invite at least 5 applicants subject to that number qualifying.

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

The contracting entity intends to procure power systems studies services to appoint a single supplier framework member for each of the three lots below:

• Lot 1 Power system studies;

• Lot 2 Substation earth grid design and testing services;

• Lot 3 Protection studies.

More details are provided in the PQQ document.

Title of the lot: Lot 1 Power System Studies
Lot number: 1
Short description:

Lot 1 Power system studies

Development of practical solutions for clients based on power system analysis.

• transmission system planning studies: load-flow and short-circuit analysis, contingency analysis, dynamic stability analysis, insulation-coordination and power quality studies;

• distribution system planning studies, electricity demand forecast, master-planning and spatial load forecasting, distribution loss adjustment factor calculations;

• grid connection studies: fault ride-through studies, reactive power capability studies, power quality studies and rate of change of frequency studies;

• active distribution system management studies: network analysis and the effect of active network solutions on the capacity of the distribution system, to include the congestion analysis and a cost-benefit analysis of different active solutions to support 2030 targets of renewable generation and low carbon technologies.

Duration: 36 months
Description of options:

The duration of the framework agreements will be for three(3) years duration with an option, at the discretion of ESB, to extend up to a further 48 months in one or more increments.

Title of the lot: Lot 2 Substation Earth Grid Design and Testing Services
Lot number: 2
Short description:

Lot 2 Substation Earth grid design and testing services

• consultancy support service: investigating earthing related incidents, either on site or from information provided; written professional comment on documents, reports or proposals supplied to ESB by a third party;

• earthing design: earthing system re-design from findings of substation assessment or as part of substation upgrade; design earthing for new substations based on ESB earthing policies and applicable standards; all computer modelling should be undertaken using SES Tech CDEGS software;

• substation assessment — earthing survey: carry out visual inspection of the above ground earth conductors, measure the resistance of a sample of joints, check the integrity of the bonding of the main plant items to the substation earth grid, establish the location and the installed depth of the significant parts of the electrode system installed, provide digital copy of the drawing on the completion of the survey.

Title of the lot: Lot 3 Protection Studies
Lot number: 3
Short description:

Lot 3 Protection studies

• consultancy support service: investigating protection related incidents, either on site or from information provided; written professional comment on documents, reports or proposals supplied to ESB by a third party; assistance in designing specific or generic protection systems for high voltage and medium voltage plant, assistance in providing professional comment on parts of protection policies;

• protection setting calculations for transmission and distribution system, for utility and industrial clients;

• provide protection settings calculation in accordance with client policy. Protection coordination studies to be carried out using PSS CAPE or PowerFactory software.

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 187918.

Economic and financial standing:

As stated in procurement qualification questionnaire (PQQ) available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 187918.

Technical and professional ability:

As stated in procurement qualification questionnaire (PQQ) available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 187918.

List and brief description of rules and criteria:

As stated in procurement qualification questionnaire (PQQ) available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 187918.

Contract execution
Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them: As per the 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 in this process, it is a requirement of ESB that one member of the group accepts full contractual responsibility for the delivery of services. Where appropriated the intended contractually responsible member of any grouping or consortium must be identified in responding to this notice.

Procedure
Legal basis: 32014L0025
Envisaged number of candidates: 5
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates:

Provided that a sufficient number of applicants are qualified to be considered for shortlisting, following application of the procedures set out in section…

… A.9(Evaluation of PQQ responses), it is anticipated that at least the 5 highest-scored applicants for each lot will be shortlisted and invited to proceed to the next stage of the procurement process.

… A.9 (Evaluation of PQQ responses), it is anticipated that at least the 5 highest-scored applicants for each lot will be shortlisted and invited to proceed to the next stage of the procurement process.

… A.9(Evaluation of PQQ responses), it is anticipated that at least the 5 highest-scored Applicants for each lot will be shortlisted and invited to proceed to the next stage of the procurement process.

Time of receipt of tenders: 12:00
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️

Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: N/a
Contact
Contact point: Jason Weldon
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=186377&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏

Reference
Additional information

2) This is the sole call for competition for this service;

3) The contracting entity will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates or tenderers;

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;

6) If for any reason it is not possible to admit to the framework agreement one or more of the tenderers invited following the conclusion of this competitive process, or having awarded a contract under the framework agreement, the contracting entity reserves the right to invite the next highest scoring tenderer to join the framework agreement and/or deliver the contract as appropriate to the circumstances pertaining to the framework;

7) At its absolute discretion, the contracting entity may elect to terminate this procurement process, the framework agreement or any contract awarded under the framework agreement at any time;

8) Please note in relation to all documents, that where reference is made to a particular standard, make, source, process, trademark, type or patent, that this is not to be regarded as a de facto requirement. In all such cases it should be understood that such indications are to be treated strictly and solely for reference purposes only, to which the words ‘or equivalent’ will always be appended;

9) Without prejudice to the principle of equal treatment, the contracting entity is not obliged to engage in a clarification process in respect of questionnaires with missing or incomplete information. Therefore, candidates are advised to ensure that they return fully completed questionnaires in order to avoid the risk of elimination from the competition;

10) At Section II.2.9) we have indicated that 5 applicants will be invited to tender, please note that the contracting entity reserves the right to invite at least 5 applicants subject to that number qualifying.

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 🌏
Source: OJS 2021/S 071-182176 (2021-04-08)

Contract award notice (2023-09-11)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

The Contracting Entity has procured Power Systems Studies Services on a single supplier framework member basis for each of the three lots below; • Lot1 Power System Studies • Lot2 Substation Earth Grid Design and Testing Services • Lot3 Protection Studies

Total value of the procurement: 4 200 000 EUR 💰
Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice

Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable

Contracting authority
Identity
Awarding authority name: Electricity Supply Board ( ESB )
Postal address: 27 Lower Fitzwilliam street
Postal town: Dublin 1
Contact
E-mail: olawale.omotosho@esb.ie 📧

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2023-09-11 📅
Publication date: 2023-09-15 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2023/S 178-555171
Refers to notice: 2021/S 071-182176
OJ-S issue: 178

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

The Contracting Entity has procured Power Systems Studies Services on a single supplier framework member basis for each of the three lots below;

• Lot1 Power System Studies

• Lot2 Substation Earth Grid Design and Testing Services

• Lot3 Protection Studies

Lot1 Power System Studies

• Transmission system planning studies: load-flow and short-circuit analysis, contingency analysis, dynamic stability analysis, insulation-coordination and power quality studies

• Distribution system planning studies, electricity demand forecast, master-planning and spatial load forecasting, distribution loss adjustment factor calculations.

• Grid connection studies: fault ride-through studies, reactive power capability studies, power quality studies and Rate of Change of Frequency studies.

• Active distribution system management studies: network analysis and the effect of active network solutions on the capacity of the distribution system, to include the congestion analysis and a cost-benefit analysis of different active solutions to support 2030 targets of renewable generation and low carbon technologies.

Lot2 Substation Earth Grid Design and Testing Services

• Consultancy support service: investigating earthing related incidents, either on site or from information provided; written professional comment on documents, reports or proposals supplied to ESB by a third party.

• Earthing design: earthing system re-design from findings of substation assessment or as part of substation upgrade; design earthing for new substations based on ESB earthing policies and applicable standards; all computer modelling should be undertaken using SES Tech CDEGS software.

• Substation assessment - earthing survey: carry out visual inspection of the above ground earth conductors, measure the resistance of a sample of joints, check the integrity of the bonding of the main plant items to the substation earth grid, establish the location and the installed depth of the significant parts of the electrode system installed, provide digital copy of the drawing on the completion of the survey.

Lot3 Protection Studies

• Consultancy support service: investigating protection related incidents, either on site or from information provided; written professional comment on documents, reports or proposals supplied to ESB by a third party; assistance in designing specific or generic protection systems for high voltage and medium voltage plant, assistance in providing professional comment on parts of protection policies.

• Protection setting calculations for transmission and distribution system, for utility and industrial clients.

• Provide protection settings calculation in accordance with client policy. Protection coordination studies to be carried out using PSS CAPE or PowerFactory software.

Award of contract
Date of contract conclusion: 2023-08-28 📅
Name: Mott MacDonald Ireland
National registration number: Reg No: 53280
Postal address: South Block, Rockfield,
Postal town: Dublin 16.
Postal code: Dundrum,
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Internet address: http://www.mottmac.com 🌏
Total value of the procurement: 4 200 000 EUR 💰
Name: Earthing Risk Management Ltd
National registration number: GB 800 83 4752
Postal address: Britannia House, Caerphilly Business Park
Postal town: Caerphilly
Postal code: CF83 3GG
Country: United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Internet address: http://www.erm.ltd 🌏
Name: Hitachi Energy Ireland
National registration number: IE 3624011NH
Postal address: Block B, Liffey Valley Office Campus, D22X0Y3, Ireland
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: D24KD78
Internet address: http://www.hitachienergy.com 🌏

Contracting authority
Contact
Contact point: Ola Omotosho
Source: OJS 2023/S 178-555171 (2023-09-11)

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