Provision of Financial & Commercial Advice re: competitive process for the National Lottery Licence

Department of Public Expenditure and Reform

The public procurement competition relates to financial and commercial advice to assist the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in the competitive process for the award of the next National Lottery licence.
NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the eTenders Web Site at http://www.etenders.gov.ie/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=466832. />The awarding authority has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via a 'Tender Submission Postbox' facility. Further details of this facility are available at http://www.etenders.gov.ie/PostBox/Postbox_Explain.aspx?ID=466832. />Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems. The postbox closes precisely at the time stated.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2012-08-27. The procurement was published on 2012-07-16.

Who?

• Department of Public Expenditure and Reform

What?

• Financial consultancy, financial transaction processing and clearing-house services › Financial consultancy services

Where?

• Éire/Ireland

Procurement history

Date	Document
2012-07-16	Contract notice

Contract notice (2012-07-16)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: financial consultancy services
Notice metadata
Original language: English 🗣️
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Services
Regulation: European Union, with participation of GPA countries
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Financial consultancy services 📦

Procedure
Procedure type: Open procedure
Type of bid: Submission for all lots
Award criteria
The most economic tender

Contracting authority
Identity
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Awarding authority type: Ministry or any other national or federal authority
Awarding authority name: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
Postal address: Upper Merrion Street
Postal code: 2
Postal town: Dublin
Contact
Internet address: http://www.per.gov.ie 🌏
Phone: +353 16318121 📞

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2012-07-16 📅
Submission deadline: 2012-08-27 📅
Publication date: 2012-07-19 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2012/S 137-228975
OJ-S issue: 137
Additional information
(ET Ref:466832).

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the eTenders Web Site at http://www.etenders.gov.ie/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=466832.

The awarding authority has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via a 'Tender Submission Postbox' facility. Further details of this facility are available at http://www.etenders.gov.ie/PostBox/Postbox_Explain.aspx?ID=466832.

Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems. The postbox closes precisely at the time stated.

Place of performance
Main site or place of performance: Dublin, Ireland.

Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
Suitability to pursue the professional activity:

(1) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they are not bankrupt or the subject of an administration order, are not being wound-up, have not granted a trust deed, are not the subject of a petition presented for sequestration of their estate, have not had a receiver, manager or administrator appointed and are not otherwise apparently insolvent.

(2) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that the candidate, their directors, or any other person who has powers of representation, decision or control of the candidate has not been convicted of conspiracy, corruption, bribery, or money laundering. Failure to provide such a declaration will result in the candidate being declared ineligible and they will not be selected to participate in this procurement process.

(3) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they have not been convicted of a criminal offence relating to the conduct of their business or profession.

(4) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they have not committed an act of grave misconduct in the course of their business or profession.

(5) All candidates must comply with the requirements of the State in which they are established, regarding registration on the professional or trade register.

(6) Any candidate found to be guilty of serious misrepresentation in providing any information required, may be declared ineligible and not selected to continue with this procurement process.

(7) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they have fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of social security contributions under the law or of the relevant State in which the candidate is established.

(8) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they have fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of taxes under the law or of the relevant State in which the economic operator is established.

Economic and financial standing:

(1) All candidates will be required to provide evidence of relevant professional risk indemnity insurance.

(2) All candidates will be required to provide a statement, covering the 3 previous financial years including the overall turnover of the candidate and the turnover in respect of the activities which are of a similar type to the subject matter of this notice.

Minimum level(s) of standards: See section 3.2 of RFT.
Technical and professional ability:

(1) Details of the educational and professional qualifications of their managerial staff; and those of the person(s) who would be responsible for providing the services or carrying out the work or works under the contract.

(2) A statement of the principal goods sold or services provided by the supplier or the services provider in the past 3 years, detailing the dates on which the goods were sold or the services provided; the consideration received; the identity of the person to whom the goods were sold or the services were provided.

(3) A check may be carried out by the contracting authority or by a competent official body of the State in which the candidate is established, to verify the technical capacity of the candidate; and if relevant, on the candidates study and research facilities and quality control measures.

(4) An indication of the proportion of the contract which the services provider intends possibly to subcontract.

Minimum level(s) of standards: See Section 3.2.
Contract execution
Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them: Please see RFT document attached.
Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded: See section 2.5 of RFT.
Names and professional qualifications of the staff ✅

Procedure
Tender validity period: 2013-08-23 📅
Award criteria
Criterion: 1. Quality/technical merit (140)
2. Price (60)
Languages
Language: English 🗣️
Other languages: Irish.

Contracting authority
Contact
Contact point: National Lottery Section
Internet address: www.per.gov.ie 🌏
Address of the buyer profile: http://www.etenders.gov.ie/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA37324 🌏
Name: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
URL for further information: www.per.gov.ie 🌏
URL for documents: www.per.gov.ie 🌏
E-mail: lotterylicence@per.gov.ie 📧
URL for participation: www.per.gov.ie 🌏
Source: OJS 2012/S 137-228975 (2012-07-16)

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