Transmission Pipeline Transaction Business Solution

The Vendor is required to provide the marketplace to assist in determining future purchasing options or requirements for a replacement of the legacy transmission pipeline transaction business system.
- Solution requirements
•    Manage a energy pool account for each customer which accounts for the natural gas in and out of the customers’ account through receipts, trades, storage and deliveries 
•    Paperless contracting for transportation and storage services (firm and interruptible) including requests for contracts, the approval process, permanent or temporary assignments, and documentation of contracts. 
•    Role-based access control: vendor must describe the application access control model including role-based access control (RBAC) and how permissions are assigned and managed for customers and internal users. 
•    Functionality to manage business transactions (transportation activity and contracts) for more than one corporate entity. 
•    Manage common stream operator allocations for receipts and deliveries and verify allocations. 
•    Manage common stream operator (CSO) allocations for receipts and deliveries and verify allocations. 
•    Managing storage services including injection, withdrawal and transfers including step downs. 
•    Manage daily nominations and allocations for transportation and storage services. 
•    Integration with existing systems SharePoint online, website, and data warehouse. 
•    For each listed integration, respondents should describe:
o    Integration method (API, batch file, event-based, other)
o    Directionality (inbound, outbound, bi-directional)
o    Typical latency (real-time, near real-time, batch)
o    Prior experience in integrating with similar systems (if applicable)
•    Data hosting location: vendor must describe where application data is stored and processed, including primary and backup data center locations and whether any customer data leaves country.
•    Data security architecture and management and disaster recovery (where hosting services are provided). 
•    Ability to add multiple meters together to create one meter for a customer through a logical calculation. 
•    Functionality to create meters and track and modify status of meters for asset database. 
•    Functionality to manage daily and monthly measurement at each customer meter and prior period adjustments (PPA). 
•    Create tolerance ranges for system operation 
•    Create and manage transportation and storage rates. 
•    The ability to close monthly accounting and production accounting periods 
•    Audit logging: describe user activity logging and audit capabilities, including what actions are logged and how logs can be accessed. 
•    The vendor shall describe its customer support coverage, including hours of operation, time zone, after-hours or emergency support, and escalation procedures. 
•    The information must identify target response times by incident severity and note any differences between standard and optional support offerings. 
•    Authentication and MFA: vendor must describe supported authentication methods, including multi-factor authentication capabilities and integration with corporate identity providers (e.g., SSO). 
•    Privileged administrative access: vendor must describe how administrative or privileged access to the system and underlying data is controlled and monitored. 
•    Alerting and reporting capabilities.
- Solution value add-on
•    Managing customer credit.
•    Positive user experience and plans for continuous improvements (ease of use, reliability, speed, reporting and widgets).
•    Mobile access for contracting, nominations, and reports or dashboards.
•    Multi-factor authentication (MFA)
•    Cloud integration
•    Customer and internal dashboards
•    Customer ability to schedule reports
•    Customer self-serve contracting.
•    Managing non-standard contracts.
•    Show invoices in the system.