Connecting a wind farm to TenneT's fixed high-voltage grid easily involves more than 40 parties. The amount of coordination required to bring such a project to a successful conclusion is phenomenal. The Project Management Office of Offshore NL is in charge of this. On behalf of the PMO, I am investigating which systems are required to provide optimal support to the PMO and how these systems should be connected to the rest of the TenneT systems.

Contribution Takeshape - European Tender Project Management

After a market consultation, I led the European tender that resulted in a contract with an Indian party in May 2021. As is customary with Takeshape and complex projects, this did not happen in a straight line. During the tender process, more business units showed an interest in participating. Under the OneTenneT development, the tender was anchored higher up in the organisation so that the system would become a TenneT-wide generic service. All future projects at the major project departments and at Grid Field Operations will use the system.

In close cooperation with the IT department, architects and service managers, we were able to draw up a future-proof contract with maketype pricing. In the meantime, we had to start working with the entire team online in March 2020. In the small, well-established team, this went fantastically well. Negotiations with large teams of software providers also went well, even better, online.

In the meantime, the contract has been put on hold and implementation is in full swing.