Fakta om udbudet

EU-nr

2022/S 211-607456

Offentliggjort

02.11.2022

Udbudstype

Udbud med forhandling uden forudgående offentliggørelse

Udbyder

Danmarks Tekniske Universitet - DTU

Vindere

(02.11.2022)
RTDS Technologies Inc
150 Innovation Drive
MB R3T 2E1 Winnipeg

Upgrade of Digital Power Systems Simulator

Danmarks Tekniske Universitet - DTU

Voluntary ex ante transparency notice

Supplies

Legal Basis:

Directive 2014/24/EU

Section I: Contracting authority/entity

I.1) Name and addresses

Official name: Danmarks Tekniske Universitet - DTU
National registration number: 30060946
Postal address: Anker Engelunds Vej 1
Town: Kgs. Lyngby
NUTS code: DK01 Hovedstaden
Postal code: 2800
Country: Denmark
Contact person: Christian Torrendrup
E-mail: cvto@dtu.dk
Telephone: +45 23100296
Internet address(es):
Main address: http://www.dtu.dk

I.4) Type of the contracting authority

Body governed by public law

I.5) Main activity

Education

Section II: Object</p>

II.1) Scope of the procurement

II.1.1) Title:

Upgrade of Digital Power Systems Simulator

Reference number: 7313

II.1.2) Main CPV code

38970000 Research, testing and scientific technical simulator

II.1.3) Type of contract

Supplies

II.1.4) Short description:

Upgrade of existing DTU Electrical Engineering RTDS Simulation System Hardware to RTDS Novacor hardware.

II.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: no

II.1.7) Total value of the procurement (excluding VAT)

Value excluding VAT: 1 850 000.00 EUR

II.2) Description

II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

38970000 Research, testing and scientific technical simulator

II.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS code: DK01 Hovedstaden

II.2.4) Description of the procurement:

DTU wishes to update its existing RTDS Simulation System Hardware to RTDS Novacor hardware.

The digital power systems simulator is used for simulations of electric power grids and electric power equipment. The simulations can be hardware-in-the-loop simulations where simulations supervise and control real electric power equipment. Pure software solutions do not suffice for hard-ware-in-the-loop tests.

The upgrade is intended to enable simulations of larger power systems and to enable more simultaneous simulations. The intention is that the size of the power systems or the number of simulations should be doubled or tripled with the upgrade.

The upgrade will consist of an upgrade of 10 existing RTDS chassis in 5 cubicles to 8 RTDS Novacor chassis in 4 midsize Novacor cubicles.

The 10 existing chassis contains in total 55 processor electronic cards to be upgraded and 4 data communication cards to be upgraded. Other cards should be reused.

The existing chassis 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 contain 30 processor cards eligible for upgrade and 4 data communication cards eligible for upgrade.

The existing chassis 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 contain 25 processor cards eligible for upgrade. The chassis contain no data communication cards.

Other electronic cards not eligible for upgrade are transferred to the new cubicles or chassis.

Some synchronization electronic cards are added so that each cubicle contains a synchronization card.

Necessary data communication chassis are added for housing the data communication cards.

The Purchase will be split in two, where the first part is delivered in 2022 for evaluation and the second part in 2023, where the existing unit will be taken out of service. This is to ensure we can run smaller simulations during the commissioning and training period.

II.2.5) Award criteria

Price

II.2.11) Information about options

Options: no

II.2.13) Information about European Union funds

The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no

II.2.14) Additional information

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1) Description

IV.1.1) Type of procedure

Negotiated procedure without prior publication

The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator for the following reason:
- absence of competition for technical reasons

Explanation:

There are only a few manufacturers or suppliers of digital power systems simulators with hardware-in-the-loop test capabilities.

The different simulators use different technologies and are not interoperable in the sense that a simulation developed for a specific manufacturer's system cannot run on another manufacturer's simulator.

Thus, only equipment from RTDS Technologies Inc. can run existing DTU power systems simulations.

A change of supplier would require replacement of all existing equipment.

A change will also require redevelopment of simulation cases in research projects (e.g., the “SO-SPO project, Innovationsfonden, J.Nr. ENMI 11-116794” and the “SCAPP project, EUDP 64018-002, ForskEL-project 2014-1-12196”) and reused in other research and laboratory projects (e.g., the project “Digital Energy Lab, Green Labs DK, J.Nr. 1518-0062”). New research projects and laboratory projects will have to add time and costs to develop simulations instead of reusing existing simulations. A change will require retraining of research, teaching, and technical staff operating the simulator.

A change will require rework of offered courses (e.g., DTU course 31745 “Real-Time Digital Simulation and Test of Power Systems”).

The total costs, financially and time- and research-wise, of replacement, redevelopment, retraining, and rework implied by a change to an alternative supplier is followingly exorbitant and unrealistic.

It is not possible to procure the equipment fulfilling all DTU's requirement from any other source than this one supplier

IV.1.3) Information about framework agreement

IV.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: yes

IV.2) Administrative information

Section V: Award of contract/concession

V.2) Award of contract/concession

V.2.1) Date of contract award decision:

25/10/2022

V.2.2) Information about tenders

The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: no

V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor/concessionaire

Official name: RTDS Technologies Inc
Postal address: 150 Innovation Drive
Town: Winnipeg
NUTS code: CA Canada
Postal code: MB R3T 2E1
Country: Canada

The contractor/concessionaire will be an SME: no

V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot/concession (excluding VAT)

Total value of the contract/lot/concession: 1 850 000.00 EUR

V.2.5) Information about subcontracting

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.3) Additional information:

VI.4) Procedures for review

VI.4.1) Review body

Official name: Klagenævnet for Udbud
Postal address: Nævnenes hus, Toldboden 2
Town: Viborg
Postal code: 8800
Country: Denmark
E-mail: klfu@erst.dk
Telephone: +45 35291000
Internet address: http://www.klfu.dk

VI.4.3) Review procedure

Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:

Complaint that the Contracting Authority, contrary to the Public Procurement Act, has concluded a contract without prior publication of a contract notice in the European Union Official Journal must be submitted no later than 30 calendar days from the date after a contract award notice has been published by the Contracting Authority in the European Union Official Journal and that contract award notice includes the grounds for the decision to award the contract directly, cf. lov om Klagenævnet for Udbud (Complaints Board for Tenders) § 7, section 3.

VI.4.4) Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained

Official name: Konkurrence- og Forbrugerstyrelsen
Postal address: Carl Jacobsens Vej 35
Town: Valby
Postal code: 2500
Country: Denmark
E-mail: kfst@kfst.dk
Telephone: +45 41715000
Internet address: http://www.kfst.dk

VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice:

28/10/2022