The Provision of an integrated ADMS Advanced Distribution Management System solution implementation project including hardware, software, and support and maintenance services.

Tender description

The Contracting Entity intends to procure an integrated Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) solution implementation project including hardware, software and professional services in designing, building and testing the solution, as well as support and maintenance services, The ADMS solution must consolidate the following systems as a fully integrated solution. SCADA - Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition OMS - Outage Management System DMS - Distribution Management System DERMS -Distributed Energy Resource Management System The contract shall be a fixed price contract for an integrated ADMS solution implementation project including hardware, software and professional services in designing, building and testing the ADMS solution, as well as support and maintenance services. Lot 1: The ADMS solution must consolidate the following systems as a fully integrated solution. SCADA - Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition provides operators and other control systems with real-time communication to substations and field devices, as well as real-time data processing and visualization, alarm and event generation and management; OMS -Outage Management System allows operators to respond to faults, collect and analyse trouble events as well as plan and manage network outages; DMS - Distribution Management System is a collection of key applications designed to analyse and optimise (by means of power flow optimization or alternative approaches which can be demonstrated to achieve equivalent results) the entire distribution network operation efficiently and reliably; DERMS - Distributed Energy Resource Management System is an end-to-end automatic control system which allows operators to model, forecast and dispatch distributed energy resources (DER) and other controllable grid assets. The scope of the contract shall include the following software applications: • Network monitoring and control o Data acquisition o Data processing o Supervisory control o Sequential control o Alarms and events o Areas of responsibility and shift change o Load shedding o Disturbance data collection • Outage management o Fault management o Crew management o Emergency management o Switching order management • Basic distribution management o Network topology processing o Unbalanced load flow o State estimator o Load forecasting o Study mode o Contingency analysis • Advanced distribution management o Short circuit and fault location analysis o Adaptive protection settings o Fault location, isolation and service restoration o Integrated volt-VAr control o Network power flow optimisation • DER management o DER modelling, monitoring and control o DER forecasting and merit order queuing o DER dispatch o DER flexibility management • Reporting o General reporting o SCADA reporting o OMS reporting o Other reporting o Dashboards • Training o Training simulator o Instructor module. The scope of the contract shall comply with the specified set of non-functional requirements and shall deliver the following infrastructure components: • All hardware required to build the offered ADMS solution (compute, storage and network devices including cabinets and cables) • All system software required to run the offered ADMS solution (operating systems, databases, system management tools, cybersecurity tools, etc.). The scope of the contract shall include the following system integration interfaces with ADMS: • AMI and MDM interface • CRM and customer communication systems interface • Data warehouse/business intelligence interface • Equipment database interface • GIS Interface • Landbase interface • Market management system interface • OMS interface (interim, if applicable to the tenderer’s proposed implementation plan) • SAP interface • SCADA interface (interim, if applicable to the tenderer’s proposed implementation plan) • Weather interface • Workforce management interface. The scope of the contract shall include the following professional services during the course of the project implementation: • Project management • Design • Documentation • Application development • Infrastructure engineering • Data engineering • Testing • Training • Commissioning. The scope of the contract shall include the following support and maintenance services: • Standard hardware maintenance • Standard software maintenance • 24x7 help desk • 24x7 remote monitoring • Regular solution audit • Patch compatibility verification • Software updates. Please consult the associated documentation, which contains full instructions regarding the submission of tenders and is available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 214396