MARI-Testing Services

Manually Activated Reserves Initiative (MARI) is the European implementation project for the creation of the European platform for the exchange of balancing energy from frequency restoration reserves with manual activation (mFRR). The Electricity Balancing guideline (Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/2195) (hereinafter the ‘EB Regulation‘), approved by the Electricity Cross-Border Committee on 16 March 2017, defines tasks and a timeline for the implementation of the European mFRR platform. The tendered Testing Service provider is responsible for testing the software developed for MARI and the connections between TSOs and the MARI platform. Furthermore Testing Service provider supports TSOs with their accession to MARI platform.

The provider of this task will be responsible for planning and executing User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and for planning and facilitating interoperability testing between the MARI platform and external systems of the participating TSOs (IOP). Part of the preliminary phase will be to participate in Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT) which will be executed and facilitated by providers of software development Unicorn and Artelys. In cooperation with the project, the UAT phase needs to be planned: test cases, test scenarios, expected performance and benchmarking against
mFRR platform requirements catalogue in its most current version. During the UAT, the provider must be in a position to carry out these tests, mostly independently (possibly with the involvement of Unicorn), and report to the project on the results, issues encountered and possible counter-measures on a regular basis determined by the project. A final test report is expected, so that the project can assess the results of the developed version and decide on next steps (exit criteria).