Official UK procurement notice
European Wholesale Energy Data Platform
Authority: NATIONAL GRID ELECTRICITY SYSTEM OPERATOR LIMITED
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNational Grid Electricity System Operator (NGESO), a legally separate business within the National Grid Group, is the electricity system operator for Great Britain. The NGESO moves electricity around the system to keep homes and businesses supplied with the energy they need 24/7.
National Grid Electricity System Operator (NGESO) became a legally separate business from the wider National Grid Electricity Transmission (NG) in 2019. NGESO is on a journey to become National Energy System Operator (NESO), a separate legal entity under UK government ownership during Summer 2024. Where in this notice we refer to NESO, this should be understood as also including NGESO before the change is taken place.
As of July 2024, National Energy System Operator (NESO) will no longer be a part of the National Grid group, resulting in the need to separate what are currently shared processes and functions.
As part of the separation from National Grid Group and transformation into NESO under UK Government ownership,
Multiple analytics teams within NESO require access to wider market data about both European and GB wholesale energy market information. Access to third party and independent balancing analytics is essential for the functioning of our forecasting, trading and post event review capabilities. Therefore, NESO require an online platform with application programming interface (API) and an easy-to-use online user interface to maintain existing capabilities. This includes a requirement for the platform to have licenses for access to non-public energy market data and license to use the datasets as part of wider market publications.
NESO require a platform that the platform:
High availability (95% or more up-time)
High data accuracy standard and access to support where errors are identified
High standard of documentation of available datasets
Access to all requested datasets through one platform
Unlimited requests (reasonable frequency restrictions can apply) to APIs
Optionality to procure further licenses on a call off arrangement.
CPV: Public utilities · Software package and information systems
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1NESO require a platform that fulfils the following objectives and gives access to…Planned
NESO require a platform that fulfils the following objectives and gives access to required datasets.
As far as possible it is expected that this will be a standard product offering with data requirements aligned to those of other energy market participants to support robustness of the solution and prevent the costs of a custom-built solution.
Technical capabilities
A high availability (95% or more up-time);
Unlimited requests (reasonable frequency restrictions can apply) to APIs;
Easy to use online user interface;
High standard of documentation of available dataset;
Provides for 30 users across NESO with optionality to procure further licenses using a call off arrangement and flexibility to change account logins within this total 'seats' contract.
Data Requirements.
High standard of documentation of available datasets;
High data accuracy standard and access to support where errors are identified;
The data platform will provide access to:
DA prices UK (EPEX and N2X) and across EU after the DA auctions and spread analysis.
UK power and gas forward close prices.
Carbon market prices (GB and IEM).
Within Day prices EPEX and N2X.
DA intraday price forecasts.
Interconnector flows and capacities, forecast and actual.
Generation dispatch forecasts
Solar and Wind forecasts.
Demand Out-turn and forecasts.
In depth country analysis/information for all Internal Energy Market participants including DA prices, Intraday prices and balancing prices.
BM summary information including: Accepted Actions; Net Imbalance Volumes/Price forecasts and outturns; BM Bid/Offer Stack; Extended period Unit Running Profiles; Frequency history; Generation Availability data (2-14 day); Ancillary service market consolidated information.
Contract duration
Flexible, agile contract that can be scaled-up or down based on business requirements.
Compliance with the Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016
3 year contract with option to extend on a year on year basis up to a maximum of 5 years before re-tendering
Tender Requirements
Must be able to offer a trial period for user testing of the product offering within the RFP process prior to award.
All suppliers wishing tp participate in the tender process must register with Achilles via the UVDB code for the event:
1.5.8.18 - Software - Energy Trading System.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0025 Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (Directive 2014/25/EU)
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 18 Sept 2024, 16:05 BST
- Last source update
- 18 Sept 2024, 16:05 BST
- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-029895- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-049bfbFind a Tender
Publisher note: This PIN is not a call for competition. NESO is not obliged to respond to any correspondence related to this notice. Direct or indirect canvassing of NESO (or any person connected with it) by any person concerning this notice, or any attempt to procure information outside of the defined process is discouraged and may (in certain circumstances) require the disqualification of the relevant person(s) from participation in any future competitive procurement process. All information provided by NESO in this PIN is at an early stage of development, is not intended by NESO to create any contract or other commitment and is not intended by NESO to be otherwise relied on by any person to any extent. NESO shall have no liability for any losses incurred by any person as a result any such reliance. You must be registered against all Achilles UVDB codes to be invited to the Pre-Qualification Stage. Desta Wheeler [email protected] can support any issues with completion of your registration process on Achilles UVDB ahead of the qualification event commencing in April: provided that it is the sole responsibility of each interested supplier to ensure that it is properly registered on Achilles UVDB on time and NESO accepts no responsibility for any failure to register on time regardless of the reasons for that. In this PIN all reference to a contract notice should be read as referring to an advertisement on Achilles UVDB and not a find a tender contract notice.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 17 Oct 2024, 12:00 BST
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
18 Sept 2024 → 30 Apr 2025 · 3 dates- Notice published18 Sept 2024, 16:05 BST
- Submission deadline17 Oct 2024, 12:00 BST
- Tender notice expected30 Apr 2025, 00:00 BST
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Official documents & specifications
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