Parties who wish to operate in the Market-wide Half Hourly Settlement (MHHS) market are required to qualify under the Retail Energy Code (REC) and Balancing and Settlement Code (BSC). This can be achieved by completing the SVA Qualification process in which a key component is Qualification Testing.
Parties conduct Qualification Testing (QT) within the Qualification Test Framework (QTF), an environment designed to support parties in performing all Qualification Test Cases (QTCs) within their QTC Set, including the collection of evidence to support Qualification Testing assurance.
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How it relates to you
Parties are required to conduct a set of end-to-end business process-based Qualification Test Cases (QTCs). The required set of QTCs (the QTC Set) varies depending on the Market Role for which the party wishes to qualify, giving rise to a QTC Set for each Market Role.
The standard QTC Set may also be reduced for an individual party if that party is placing reliance on testing performed previously by a third party and/or has elected to exclude optional functions from their chosen Market Role (e.g. a Supplier electing not to qualify for unmetered MPANs).
Parties conduct QT within the Qualification Test Framework (QTF). This is an environment designed to support parties in executing all QTCs within their QTC Set, including the collection of evidence to support QT assurance.
Qualification Testing pre-requisites
Some other activities must be completed before starting Qualification Testing in the Qualification Test Framework and include:
- onboarding onto the Data Integration Platform (DIP)
- onboarding Qualifying Party system(s) to the Qualification Test Framework (QTF)
- onboarding of QTF users to the QTF
- onboarding QTF Users to Azure DevOps (ADO)
- loading Test MPANs (Suppliers only)
- loading Test Market Domain Data (Suppliers only)
Steps relating to MPIDs and Market Roles
Your organisation will have one or more Market Participant IDs (MPIDs) and each MPID will have one or more Market Roles (i.e. Supplier, Meter Service Smart (MSS), Meter Service Advance (MSA), Smart Data Service (SDS), Advanced Data Service (ADS) and Unmetered Data Service (UMSDS)) associated with it.
As part of Qualification on-boarding, you will be allocated a QTC Set for each unique combination of MPID and Market Role. This will be based on the standard QTC Set for the Market Role in question, with zero or more QTCs excluded, depending on any reliance you may be placing on third parties and/or optionality that you have chosen to invoke that has been agreed with the Code Bodies and DIP Manager.
Your organisation will have provided a list of individuals authorised to perform Qualification Testing (QTF Users). The Non-SIT S&A QT Testing Team will grant each QTF User access to one or more of your organisation’s MPID/Market Role combinations depending on your requirements.
Once granted access to a MPID/Market Role, a QTF User will have access to run QTCs, view data relating to QTC Runs and perform all other QTF functionality relating to that MPID/Market Role combination.
Access to the Qualification Test Framework
- Log in to the QTF
Guidance on how to use the QTF
- Guidance information