Award notice Services
ENQEIR966 - DS3 System Services – Volume Uncapped – Gate 13
- Public buyer
- EirGrid plc
Dublin - Place of performance
- Dublin
- Estimated value
- €140,500,000 excl. VAT
- Amount awarded
- €140,500,000 excl. VAT
- Planned end of contract
- 1 August 2026
- Bids received
- 21
- Procedure
- Open procedure
Any company may submit a bid. - Publication
- 2 September 2026
- Notice language
- English
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Description
This Qualification System refers to the system that is in place to enable interested parties to submit a response and subsequently qualify for award of Contract for provision of DS3 System Services. Gate 13 covers all 12 services outlined in the Qualification System Briefing Document. The services are split into a number of Lots for the TSO.
Lots 1IE – 12IE relate to the System Services required by EirGrid. It is intended that the start date of each of the Contracts awarded under Gate 13 is 1st October 2025. It is intended that the term of each Contract will last until 30th April 2026, as per the decision of the Regulatory Authority set out in SEM-23-103 System Services Future Arrangements - Decision Paper 3, but with an option for TSO to extend the term of its Contract in respect of any or all of its applicable Lots in certain defined cases, at the discretion of the Contracting Entity.
This option might apply where, for instance, there is a delay in completing the procurement for any subsequent phases envisaged under the DS3 Programme.
Awarded to
12 lots
- Primary Operating Reserve
- Secondary Operating Reserve
- Tertiary 1 Operating Reserve
- Tertiary 2 Operating Reserve
- Replacement Reserve (De-Synchronised)
- Replacement Reserve (Synchronised)
- Steady State Reactive Power
- Synchronous Inertial Response
- Ramping Margin 1 Hour
- Ramping Margin 3 Hour
- Ramping Margin 8 Hour
- Fast Frequency Response
CPV codes
European codes that classify what the contract is about. They are how we find the tenders for your trade.
71314000
Winning prices for comparable contracts
- A quarter below
- €68,984
- Median
- €300,000
- A quarter above
- €1,000,000
Amounts awarded (excl. VAT) over the last 3 years for 37 contracts in the same CPV group (7131…), excluding framework agreements. Half of the contracts fall between the two quartiles. TED source: mostly contracts above the EU thresholds, so amounts tend to be high.
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Source : TED – Office des publications de l'Union européenne © Union européenne, données retraitées. Reference 604965-2026.