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Ad Hoc Audits
The BSC Panel may request the BSC Auditor to undertake an ad hoc audit, check, test
or review (in addition to the work carried out as part of the BSC Audit) in accordance
with
Section H5 of the BSC(125Kb)
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The Data Consistency Check Reports
The Interim Data Consistency Check Report was presented to the BSC Panel on 13 July
2006 and the final report was published on 6 February 2007. Both of these reports
are available to download from the table below. The findings of the Data Consistency
Check Report were presented to the BSC Panel at its meeting in December and to the
SVA Forum in February.
ELEXON presented its response to the Data Consistency Check final report to both
the BSC Panel and PAB in March 2007. The response is available to download from
the table below.
Key Reports
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) produced both an interim and final report. These reports
should be read in conjunction with the notice given below.
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Notice re: BSC Auditor’s Data Consistency Check – Interim Report and Final Report
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This notice concerns the BSC Auditor’s Data Consistency Check – Interim Report dated
July 2006 and Final Report dated February 2007 (the "Report").
This notice does not apply to any BSC Trading Parties, ELEXON Limited (“ELEXON”),
the Transmission Company (including the employees of the foregoing acting within
the scope of their employment duties) or the BSC Panel.
The Report was prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (the limited liability partnership
registered in England under registration no. OC303525 and with its registered address
at 1 Embankment Place, London WC2N 6RH, United Kingdom) ("PwC").
PwC require that, in order for the Report to be made available to you, (on your
personal behalf and, if you are accessing this Report on behalf of your employer
in the scope of your employment duties, on your employer's behalf) you acknowledge
that you and, if appropriate, your employer (together, "You") enjoy such receipt
for information purposes only and accept the following terms:
- The Report was prepared by PwC on the instructions of ELEXON and with only the interests
of Trading Parties, the Transmission Company, the BSC Panel and ELEXON in mind;
this Report was not planned in contemplation of use by You. The Report cannot in
any way serve as a substitute for any enquiries and procedures which You will or
should be undertaking for the purposes of satisfying yourselves regarding any issue.
- You acknowledge that PwC, its members, partners, employees and agents neither owe
nor accept any duty or responsibility to You, whether in contract or in tort (including
without limitation, negligence and breach of statutory duty) or howsoever otherwise
arising, and shall not be liable in respect of any loss, damage or expense of whatsoever
nature which is caused by any use You may choose to make of the Report, or which
is otherwise consequent upon the provision of the Report to You.
- PwC is not authorised to give explanations in relation to the Report. However, should
any PwC member, partner, employee or agent provide You with any explanations or
further information, You acknowledge that they are given subject to the same terms
as those specified in this notice in relation to the Report.
- The Report, or information obtained from it, must not be made available or copied,
in whole or in part to any other person without PwC's prior written permission which
PwC may, at its discretion, grant, withhold or grant subject to conditions (including
conditions as to legal responsibility or absence thereof).
- Without conferring any greater rights than You would otherwise have at law, it is
accepted that this notice does not exclude any liability which any party may have
for death or personal injury or for the consequences of its own fraud.
- Unless otherwise stated, all terms and expressions used in this notice shall have
the same meaning attributed to them in the BSC.
- This notice shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of England.
The courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any claim,
dispute or difference which may arise out of or in connection with this notice.
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Data Consistency Check Information
In June 2005, the BSC Panel directed the BSC Auditor to undertake an ad hoc audit
to look specifically at the consistency of data held within Settlement and delegated
authority to the PAB to set the scope of this ad hoc audit. The check focused on
key data items within the NHH SVA market (held by Suppliers, Data Aggregators, Data
Collectors, Supplier Meter Registration Agents and Meter Operators) as well as analysing
the root causes of inconsistencies found.
The Data Consistency Check examined a random sample of all NHH MSIDs and did not
focus upon any subset (e.g. MSIDs with recent activity) providing an unbiased view
of the extent and type of exceptions existing in the market. Parties were asked
to provide information on their MSIDs from this random sample.
Existing exception reporting such as the D0095 flow compares data provided by the
SMRS and NHHDC agents from the context of the flows processed by the NHHDA agent.
However, the parties instigating changes in this standing data, the Supplier and
MOA, are not included in this comparison providing an inherent limitation in the
value of these comparisons. The Data Consistency Check includes these parties, adding
value to the comparison performed.
Frequently Asked Questions
Presentations on the results of the Data Consistency Check were given to the BSC
Panel in December 2006 and the
SVA Forum in February 2007. The BSC Panel presentation is available to download
from the BSC Panel web page and the
SVA Forum slides(222Kb)
are available to download here.
The Supplier Agents’ Forum (SAF) was provided with a presentation on the root cause
analysis on 22 March 2006. This presentation is available to download here. This
presentation is available to
download here(238Kb)
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