GNI Market Assurance

Tender description

As the Irish gas market evolves, new organisations continue to become participants in the market or existing participants may seek to operate in additional market sectors. The market must adjust to improvements in technology and change requests from market participants. The Contracting Entity is undertaking a competitive tender process to award a three year contract (with two year option to renew) for consultancy services to meet the following requirements: • ensure the efficient operation of the gas market and to protect the interests of final customers and market participants • ensure the compliance of participants’ market systems and business processes with the gas market design, and to give confidence to the market that the risk of disruption has been mitigated by assessing the ability of participants’ business processes and systems to operate in the Irish gas market. The scope of the assurance strategy includes: • New entrants to the DM or LDM markets • New entrants to the NDM market • Increasing market share or sectors served, • Re-qualification regarding Information Technology (IT) or internal process changes impacting market processes or internal processing of market messages, • Re-qualification regarding market design changes. There are six stages within the scope of the Market Assurance process that are Initiation, Scoping, Induction, Execution, Cross Participant Testing and Reporting