The Government of the Philippines (GOP) through the Department of Energy (DOE) as the executing agency and the National Power Corporation (NPC) as the implementing agency entered into a Grant Agreement with the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (US-TDA) for the Development of Detailed Specifications for the Software Metering, Communications and Other Relevant (IT) Systems Needed to Support the Philippine Electricity Market Operations.

This study is in line with the on-going effort of the GOP to restructure the power industry that will pave the way for the separation of the generation, transmission, distribution and supply activities into dependent business sectors thereby creating competition in the sector of generation and supply through appropriate infrastructure that will facilitate the trading of electricity at market determined prices.

The DOE seeks to develop a conceptual framework, design and implement a competitive wholesale electricity market for the Philippines. The basic objective of this project is to determine and develop the detailed functional and operational specifications of the power pooling software systems needed to support the operation of a wholesale market for electricity.

The request for proposal was advertised last 24 August 2000 by the US-TDA in the U.S. Commerce Business Daily. Specifics on what is required of bidders including the scope of work can be found at the US-TDA website ( http://www.tda.gov/pipeline/section3.html ).