We have new DSO flexibility opportunities on Piclo now!
If you're a Flexible Service Provider looking to earn extra income, register your solutions via Piclo Flex 👉 https://picloflex.com/
You can find all the tender documentation and supporting information on the Documents tab here on the Piclo site.
In order to take part in our competitions you must complete the above, have prequalification confirmed and signed the Standard Flexibility Services Agreement available at www.spenergynetworks.co.uk/flexibility
The process, steps and timeline of our month-ahead tendering model is as follows:
Bidding opens on the 15th of each month. However, if the 15th of the month falls on a weekend or bank holiday this will be adjusted automatically to the next working day.
Further information about the tender process and instructions on how to submit tender bids is available at SP Energy Networks Flexibility Services Market - Piclo Flex
If you have any queries relating to this tender or would like to be sent information on the webinar please e-mail us at flexibility@spenergynetworks.co.uk.
We will now tender for flexibility services for the next year on a month-by-month basis. Key dates for each tender round for the next year is highlighted in the table below:
We have new DSO flexibility opportunities on Piclo Flex now!
If you're a Flexible Service Provider looking to earn extra income, register your solutions via Piclo Flex 👉 https://picloflex.com/
You can find all the tender documentation and supporting information on the Documents file here on the Piclo site.
In order to take part in our competitions you must complete the above and have prequalification confirmed by: 8th December 2023.
Bidding opens on 11th December 2023 and ends on 15th December 2023.
We held a webinar about this tender on the 15th of November. Check out the recording here if you missed it and have a quick read through of the webinar slides - download a copy here.
If you have any queries relating to this tender or would like to be sent information on the webinar please e-mail us at flexibility@spenergynetworks.co.uk.
If you're a Flexible Service Provider looking to earn extra income, register your solutions via Piclo Flex 👉 https://picloflex.com/
Create a Piclo Flex account and complete the Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) application. If you haven't already, you’ll need to upload your solution data onto the Piclo Flex platform
We will now tender for flexibility services for the next 18 months, rolling forward by six months for each subsequent tender. For example:
Service Windows: November 2023 to March 2025
Service Windows: April 2024 to November 2025
Service Windows: November 2024 to March 2026
Service Windows: April 2025 to November 2026
Guide Prices - 2024 - 2025 - Update coming soon!
Participation Guidance - 2024 - 2025
ITT Letter Flexibility Tenders - 2024 - 2025
Postcode Checker - Summer 2024
Autumn 2023 – Invitation to Tender
Autumn 2023 – Flexibility Services Agreement Template
Autumn 2023 – Estimated Utilisation and Availability Hour
Autumn 2023 – Guide Price Range
Autumn 2023 – Prequalification
Autumn 2023 – Pricing Strategy
Please review document March 23- Pricing Strategy
For Utilisation, it is anticipated that the products will be managed as follows:
We will consider bids from assets already connected and also from those in development.However, we are using these services to ensure network security, therefore during our bidassessment phase we will consider the validity and certainty of projects and may require development milestones within the Flexibility Services Agreement.
We will also consider bids from providers who wish to contract with assets following Contract Award, however as for assets in development, we may require milestones to be included within the Flexibility Services Agreement.
Note: any asset would need to be available for testing at least one month prior to the first service window.
No, we do not require exclusivity.
You are required to declare your availability a week ahead during the contracted service window thereby confirming that you can provide the contracted import/export position in response to a schedule and/or instruction from us.
You are permitted to stack other services with other parties, providing they do not prevent you from meeting your contractual obligations with us. If, due to reduced network requirements, we do not accept your week ahead availability declaration you are free to provide other services during the contracted service window the week ahead declaration covered.
All bids must be submitted via the Picloflex platform and the following applies:
Performance will be monitored using meter data from meters at the site.
For all successful bidders, a site-specific baseline will be agreed.
The intention of any baseline method is to determine how the site/asset offering the service would have been operating if it didn’t have a Flexibility Services contract in place, i.e. what the site would normally be doing – this is the baseline against which service provision will be measured and paid for. Once the baseline is agreed, we are not concerned with how you operate during the service windows providing that, if instructed by us, you can deliver the contracted service. For example, if the agreed baseline position for your site was 2MW exporting (i.e. that’s how the site/asset would be normally operating), and we had a contract with you to provide 3MW export of flexibility service, then your site would have to operate at an absolute export position of 5MW when it was providing us with the service.
To further clarify:
Please review the Bid Assessment document
We are happy to attend one-to-one appointments with our flexibility services stakeholders to assist with any queries relating to our policies and process for the procurement and use of Flexibility Services. Please e-mail flexibility@spenergynetworks.co.uk or support@piclo.energy to request a meeting.
We welcome feedback from all stakeholders, please e-mail us at flexibility@spenergynetworks.co.uk with any comments or questions on our policies, processes or tenders.
For any general comments, please contact our Flexibility Team at flexibility@spenergynetworks.co.uk