IT Infrastructure Framework Agreement for Nordic RSC

Description

Nordic RSC (Regional Security Coordinator) is a joint office owned by Energinet, Fingrid, Svenska Kraftnät and Statnett with the purpose of delivering operational coordination in the Nordic electricity system. Energinet is empowered by the TSOs to conduct the tendering process. The role of the Nordic RSC within the agreed different services is to provide coordination services for the secure operation of the European transmission system, to build consistent regional data, to perform analyses, making recommendations and otherwise support harmonizing of operational procedures and standards, assisting the Parties to maintain security of supply. The Nordic RSC needs to deliver the following five essential coordination functions: 1. Coordinated Security Analysis (including remedial action-related analysis), 2. Short and Medium Term Adequacy Forecasts, 3. Coordinated Capacity Calculations, 4. Outage Planning Coordination, and 5. Individual Grid Model/Common Grid Model Delivery Currently, Energinet is appointed as the hosting TSO for the Nordic RSC, thus Energinet is also responsible for providing server capacity and other IT tools for the Nordic RSC’s current business functions and future functions as defined by the ENTSO-E rules. In this context, Energinet requires an IT infrastructure Framework Agreement covering IT operations for primarily involved IT systems, but also other systems used by Nordic RSC e.g. administrative IT systems. Selected IT systems ranging from systems which are business critical, systems containing security sensitive data to systems which are neither business critical nor handle any security sensitive data. The overall target of this procurement is to ensure high quality and reliability in the daily operation of the common Nordic RSC/TSO business process and to provide common basis for the business and support for the existing business processes and any additional business processes which may be defined by the TSOs or Nordic RSC.