ΔΕΑ-526080 - Provision of services for the Information System for the Management of the Electricity Balancing Market (BMMS)

Economic operators participating in the framework agreement procedure shall be required to carry out an activity related to the scope of the Framework Agreement. Economic operators established in a Member State of the European Union are required to be registered in one of the commercial and/or professional registers kept in their State of establishment or to meet any other requirement set out in Annex XI to Appendix I to Law 4412/2016.

Where economic operators are required to have a specific authorisation or to be members of a particular organisation in order to be able to provide the relevant service in their home country, the contracting authority may ask them to demonstrate that they have such authorisation or that they are members of that organisation or invite them to make a sworn declaration before a notary regarding the exercise of that profession.

In the case of economic operators established in a Member State of the European Economic Area (EEA) or in third countries joining the GPA, or in third countries not falling under the previous indent and having concluded bilateral or multilateral agreements with the Union on procurement procedures, they are required to be registered in corresponding professional registers.

Economic operators established in Greece should be registered in the relevant register and active in relation to the subject matter of the Framework Agreement.

To have implemented in the last five (5) years:

1. One (1) or more projects relating to the maintenance of Market Management Systems for the operation of the Balanced Market, a company that has the role of Transmission System Operator and is a member of ENTSO-E. The total value of all the projects to be provided to meet this requirement should be at least five hundred thousand euros (500,000,00 €).
2. One (1) or more projects to develop new functions by integrating them into an Information Market Management Platform, a company that has the role of Transmission System Operator and is a member of ENTSO-E. The total value of all projects to be provided to meet this requirement should be at least one million euros (1,000,000,00 €). A project may be used to meet one or both of the above requirements (I and II), if it meets the relevant technical and economic criteria. Where several projects are presented to cover a claim, the sum of their value shall be taken into account.

To have obtained written permission from the manufacturer of the AMME BMMS, i.e. from GE Vernova which has copyright and all copyright for the products of the “e-terraTDF Market” and “e-terramarketclearing” on which the AMME’s BMMS developed, which will give them the right to offer maintenance and technical support to the ATMMS of the IPTO and to intervene in the software of the applications of “e-terraTDF Market” and “e-terramarketclearing” for modifications, improvements and enhancements with new functions at the needs of IPME without any restriction on the size of the above interventions.

They shall have a project team with members with appropriate skills, qualifications and experience, consisting of at least the following members:

• Project Manager (Project Manager), with experience of at least two (2) years in the provision of related services to those of the present
• Business Architect (Business Operations Planning Manager), with experience of at least two (2) years in the provision of related services to those of the present.
• Software Architect (Software Design and Implementation Manager), with experience of at least two (2) years in providing related services to those of the present.
• Maintenance and Support Manager (Maintenance and Support Manager), with experience of at least two (2) years in the provision of related services to those of the present.
• Maintenance and Support Engineer (Maintenance and Support Engineer), with experience of at least two (2) years in providing related services to those of the present.
• E-terraTDF Market Application expert (a specialist in GE Vernova's e-terraTDF software, with experience of at least two (2) years in providing related services to those of the present.
• Software engineer (Software Development Machine), with experience of at least two (2) years in providing related services to those of the present.
• Electricity Markets & Optimization expert specialized on AIMMS and CPLEX solver with at least one year of experience (Specialized in Energy Markets and Optimization issues, specialized in the AIMMS mathematical modelling system and CPLEX optimization software, with experience of at least one (1) year in them).
• ORACLE DataBase Administrator (ORACLE Database Manager), with experience of at least two (2) years in providing related services to those of the present. In the case of an association of economic operators, the above minimum requirements may be cumulatively covered by the members of the association.

Economic operators must have an average annual turnover of the last three (3) financial years, greater than or equal to twice the annual budget of the present item, i.e. more than or equal to €2.550,000,00, excluding VAT. Where the applicant economic operator is active for a period of less than three years, this requirement for the average general annual turnover shall apply to those management uses. Turnover must not be damaged in any use. In the case of an association/consortium of Economic Entities, its members may cumulatively meet the requirement of criterion C. Failure to meet the individual requirements of the above (A, B and C) selection criteria is a reason to reject the offer.