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Tender description

ESB seeks to procure a Market Communications Platform to facilitate its interaction to the upcoming Integrated Single Electricity Market (I-SEM) and its associated market platforms. The wholesale electricity market covering Northern Ireland and Ireland, the Single Electricity Market (SEM), is due to undergo significant changes. This arises from changes to European legislation designed to harmonise cross border trading arrangements across all European electricity markets. The new wholesale market will be known as the Integrated Single Electricity Market (I-SEM) and will require market participants to alter the format and frequency with which they interact with the market Requirement ESB is inviting expressions of interest from Applicants to provide a Market Communications Platform (product license & maintenance) and implementation services to setup specific ESB configuration and integration to ESB systems. As a market participant with a sizeable retail and generation portfolio, the Market Communications Platform forms a key component of ESB's delivery of the I-SEM changes, many of which are mandatory from a regulatory perspective. Full details on the I-SEM Technical Specification can be found at — http://www.sem-o.com/ISEM/ISEMNews/Pages/I-SEMTechnicalSpecification,Release2isnowavailable!!.aspx The Market Communications solution will be required to deliver the following capabilities: — Integration with I-SEM market operator systems (i.e. NEMO, TSO, ECC) — Creation, validation, submission and receipt of market messages in I-SEM defined schemas including: o Bid/Offer Submissions o I-SEM Trade Results o Market Settlement Reports and supporting data o I-SEM Settlement Invoices o Physical Notification Submission — Imbalance Calculation — Standard Reporting (tabular and charting formatting) — Interface with existing ESB systems using standard industry protocols — Configurable Identity and Access Management The proposed solution must have the ability to interface with the following ESB systems in addition to the external NEMO, TSO & ECC interfaces: — Aligne (or equivalent) — ETRM system — SAP — Finance System ESB is seeking a single Software as a Service (SaaS) based platform to cater for all I-SEM markets that include as standard: — Out of the Box functionality that will manage automated market message interactions for I-SEM between ESB and the NEMO, TSO, & ECC Clearing House platforms — High availability on a 24/7 basis — Platform license that includes ongoing maintenance of the I-SEM interfaces and rules configuration as these updated by the market. ESB will also require implementation services to configure the solution to ESB specific requirements i.e. Units, Reports, Screens etc. and integrate the solution to internal ESB systems. During the contract period there may be further implementation phases to cater for ESB requirements. Please note, if the principal contractor is not the supplier of the product, ESB retains the right to have annual licence and maintenance contract directly with the product owner.