SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- Relay Power System Monitoring Software
- Notice Date
- 9/7/2018
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 511210
— Software Publishers
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B130, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-1410, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20899-1410
- Solicitation Number
- NB7300401803898
- Point of Contact
- Karen Armstrong, Phone: 3019753671, Keith Bubar, Phone: 3019758329
- E-Mail Address
-
Karen.Armstrong@NIST.gov, keith.bubar@nist.gov
(Karen.Armstrong@NIST.gov, keith.bubar@nist.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE/REQUEST FOR INFORMATION Document Type: Sources Sought Notice Sources Sought Notice Number: NB730040-18-03898 Project Title: Relay and Power System Monitoring Software NAICS Code: 511210 - Software Publishers Contracting Office Address: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Acquisition Management Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Mail Stop 1640, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899-1640 This is a SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE ONLY. Requests for copies of a solicitation will not receive a response. This Notice is for planning purposes only and is not a Request for Proposal or Request for Quotation or an obligation on the part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for conducting a follow-on acquisition. NIST does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this Notice, or otherwise pay for the information requested. No entitlement or payment of direct or indirect costs or charges by NIST will arise as a result of submission of responses to this Notice and NIST use of such information. NO SOLICITATION DOCUMENTS EXIST AT THIS TIME. Background: The Smart Grid and Cyber-Physical Systems Program Office of the Engineering Lab (EL) is designing and implementing a photovoltaic power system test system to evaluate control and metrology components of the future power system. The installation is a valuable research tool helping the Smart Grid program at NIST evaluate and develop advanced inverter functions that can help address the grid stability problems posed by high levels of variable distributed generation. Current standards require that inverters disconnect the distributed PV system when grid frequency or voltage falls outside a specified range. However, advanced inverters have the capability of "riding through" minor disturbances to frequency or voltage. These functions are called under/over frequency ride-through and under/over voltage ride-through. They direct the distributed system to stay online and respond accordingly to relatively short-term, minor events. Voltage control is traditionally the responsibility of utilities. However, inverters can assist by changing the level of real power output from the system (limit active power) by controlling the rate at which real power is fed onto the grid (controlled active power ramping), or by injecting or absorbing reactive power into or from the grid (reactive power compensation, or dynamic reactive power control). These functions make system stability maintenance easier by keeping voltage and frequency at the point of coupling within specified limits. Current inverters do not perform voltage control because voltage control traditionally interferes with their capability to provide unintentional-islanding protection. This function prevents feeding PV power onto a grid that is otherwise de-energized. Advanced inverters, including the inverter we propose to install, use real-time anti-islanding algorithms to provide voltage and ride through capability while still providing islanding protection. These algorithms must be implemented on a software application that us qualified for real power systems applications. Further, the software package must be compatible with the significant research code base already existing in the testbed a set of software tools are needed. The package should be interoperable with the existing universal relay hardware already installed. Further, the tools being sought should support the development of simulations not only in the power systems field so as to allow multi-physics, multi-domain analysis capabilities. Requirement: NIST seeks to purchase a software application that will present substation and power system sensor data compliant with the IEC 61850 standard on a remote display and command interface. Further the software must allow direct web-based control of a General Electric MultiLin Universal Relay already purchased for this project. The software must provide data monitoring and recording functions that provides an overall, integrated view of the electrical system. It must collect real-time and historical disturbance data to assist with analyzing past and impending power system events. Specifically, the following functions are required: •Monitor up to 1000 devices (20000 data points) or 5000 devices (65000 data points) •Drag-and-drop construction of single-line monitoring screens •Trending of up to 5000 power system data points with 1minute resolution •Communication with third-party Modbus compliant field devices •Plug-and-Play analysis of power system equipment •Automatic collection of events and waveforms •Annunciator alarming with visual, audio and email notification •Waveform fault data recording The software provided must: •Provide a monitoring system with an easy, pre-configured setup with little customization •24x7 operation of Monitoring, Control and Data Recording •On-Demand status monitoring of the status of devices •Monitoring, Control and Data Recording for power systems that contain up to 150 electronic devices that can communicate using the standard Modbus TCP/IP and Modbus RTU protocol. •Monitor and control a maximum of 5000 points (tags) combined between all of the 150 allowable devices. •The application should be a stand-alone software package that is installed on a single workstation that has both the communications server and the HMI built into the application and not require any additional software or separate workstations for it to function. The following functionality is necessary: •Pre-configured monitoring screens for all GE Multilin Devices •Single-Line Monitoring of power system devices •Real-Time control of power system devices (Open/Close Breaker) •Annunciator Alarming on monitored Analog or Digital points •Automatic download of all Events from GE Multilin Devices •Sorting and Searching of Device Events in a system wide Sequence of Events Record •Automatic Downloading of all Waveforms from GE Multilin Devices •Merging and Overlaying waveforms recorded in different power system devices •Converting Waveforms stored in Comma Separated Values (.CSV) format to COMTRADE format files. •Viewing any COMTRADE format waveform in Time Based, Phasor Value and Harmonic Content formats •Configurable security functionality that limits access and functionality to different levels of users •Connect remotely to a Viewpoint Monitoring system over a network •Implement security access and control by thorough user accounts with configurable permissions •The memory maps for non-GE Multilin devices that use the Modbus TCP/IP or Modbus RTU protocol must be allowed on the Single-Line Diagrams, Annunciator Alarms, and the Trending Reports. Interested parties shall describe the capabilities of their organization as it relates to the equipment requirements described above. NIST is seeking responses from all responsible sources, including large and small businesses. The associated North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for this requirement is 511210 - Software Publishers, with a small business size standard of $38.5 Million Dollars. Please include your company's size classification and socio-economic status in any response to this notice. After results of this market research are obtained and analyzed, NIST may conduct a competitive procurement and subsequently award a contract. Companies that can provide such equipment are requested to email a written response describing their capabilities to Karen.Armstrong@NIST.GOV no later than the response date for this sources sought notice. The following information is requested to be provided as part of the response to this sources sought notice: 1.Name, Address, DUNS number, CAGE code, and point of contact information of your company. 2.Any information on the company's small business certifications, if applicable. 3.Description of your company's capabilities as they relate to the equipment requirement described in this notice. 4.Indication of whether the equipment described in this notice is currently offered via your company's GSA Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contracts, Government-wide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs), or other existing Government-wide contract vehicles; and, if so, the contract number(s) for those vehicles. 5.Any other relevant information that is not listed above which the Government should consider in finalizing its market research. Responses are limited to a total of ten (10) pages. The responses must be in MS Word format. Pages shall be 8½-inch x 11-inch, using Times New Roman 11 Point Font. Each page shall have adequate margins on each side (at least one inch) of the page. Header/footer information (which does not include any information to be analyzed) may be included in the 1" margin space.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899, United States
- Zip Code: 20899
- Zip Code: 20899
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