Banking and Money Transmission Services

Electricity Supply Board

Provision of multi-currency banking, cash management, cash pooling and money transmission services, with associated online transactional and reporting services.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2014-06-16. The procurement was published on 2014-05-13.

Suppliers

The following suppliers are mentioned in award decisions or other procurement documents:

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Procurement history
Date Document
2014-05-13 Contract notice
2015-05-15 Contract award notice
Contract notice (2014-05-13)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Banking and investment services
Quantity or scope:
ESB invites qualified companies to submit expressions of interest to supply banking, cash management, cash pooling and money transmission services, with associated online transactional and reporting services.The tender will consist of 3 Lots as described below. Please specify clearly which Lot or Lots you wish to express an interest in.The duration of the contract for each lot will be 3 years with the option to extend by up to 4 years.ESB's assessment of all submitted Expressions of Interest will produce a shortlist of suppliers who will receive an invitation to tender.Lot 1:Lot 1 is concerned with supporting the requirements of ESB and its subsidiary activities in ROI and UK (excluding Northern Ireland Electricity) to include:1) Provision of multi-currency banking, cash management and cash pooling services to support, inter alia: retail receipts, commercial receipts, supplier & customer payments, staff payments and treasury management2) Provision of money transmission services including electronic funds transfer systems, bulk payment file transfer capabilities, SEPA direct debit processing, and cheque processing3) Provision of real-time, online data and reporting relating to the services detailed above.4) Integration with ESB's Enterprise Resource Planning (SAP) and Treasury Management Systems.Lot 2:Lot 2 is concerned with supporting the requirements of Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) to include:1) Provision of multi-currency banking, cash management and cash pooling services to support: customer receipts, supplier & customer payments, staff payments and treasury management – predominantly GBP.2) Provision of money transmission services including electronic funds transfer systems, bulk payment file transfer capabilities and cheque processing.3) Provision of real-time, online data and reporting relating to the services detailed above.4) Integration with NIE's SAP Systems.Lot 3:Lot 3 is concerned with supporting the requirements of ESB International (ESBI) in its overseas locations, outside of ROI & UK, to include:1) Provision of multi-currency banking, cash management and cash pooling (where feasible) services in a number of overseas jurisdictions. ESBI currently has operations in the following locations: Turkey, Oman, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Bahrain, Tanzania, Malaysia, Vietnam, Pakistan. In addition, operations may be expanded to other locations including but not restricted to: Botswana, Ghana, UAE, Poland, Cyprus, Qatar, Malawi, Namibia, Zambia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Philippines, Indonesia.2) Provision of real-time, online data and reporting relating to the services detailed above.3) Provision of working capital and guarantee facilities.4) Provision of money transmission services including electronic funds transfer systems, bulk payment file transfer capabilities and cheque processing.5) Integration with ESB's Enterprise Resource Planning (SAP) and Treasury Management Systems. This is not an immediate requirement, but may become a requirement over the lifetime of the contract.
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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: Banking and investment services 📦

Procedure
Procedure type: Negotiated procedure
Type of bid: Submission for one or more lots
Award criteria
The most economic tender

Contracting authority
Identity
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Awarding authority type: Utilities entity
Awarding authority name: Electricity Supply Board
Postal address: 27 Lower Fitzwilliam Street
Postal code: 2
Postal town: Dublin
Contact
Internet address: http://www.esb.ie 🌏
E-mail: ssprocurement@esb.ie 📧
Phone: +353 17026590 📞

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2014-05-13 📅
Submission deadline: 2014-06-16 📅
Publication date: 2014-05-17 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2014/S 095-166810
OJ-S issue: 95
Additional information
The award in respect of each Lot may be made to one or more service providers. The contracting entity does not bind itself to accept any tender and reserves the right to accept part of any tender. At its absolute discretion, the contracting entity may elect to terminate this procurement process in respect of one or more Lots at any time. The contracting entity will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expense incurred by the candidates, whether or not a final contract is concluded. It will be a condition of award that candidates are tax compliant and are in a position to produce a valid tax clearance certificate from the Revenue Commissioners when requested.
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Object
Scope of the procurement
Service category: 6
Short description:
Provision of multi-currency banking, cash management, cash pooling and money transmission services, with associated online transactional and reporting services.
Lot number: 1
Title of the lot: Banking, Money Transmission and Cash Management Services (ESB)
Short description:
Lot 1 is concerned with supporting the requirements of ESB and its subsidiary activities in ROI and UK (excluding Northern Ireland Electricity) to include:
1) Provision of multi-currency banking, cash management and cash pooling services to support, inter alia: retail receipts, commercial receipts, supplier and customer payments, staff payments and treasury management.
2) Provision of money transmission services including electronic funds transfer systems, bulk payment file transfer capabilities, SEPA direct debit processing, and cheque processing.
3) Provision of real-time, online data and reporting relating to the services detailed above.
4) Integration with ESB's Enterprise Resource Planning (SAP) and Treasury Management Systems.
Lot number: 2
Title of the lot: Banking, Money Transmission and Cash Management Services (NIE)
Short description:
Lot 2 is concerned with supporting the requirements of Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) to include:
1) Provision of multi-currency banking, cash management and cash pooling services to support: customer receipts, supplier & customer payments, staff payments and treasury management – predominantly GBP.
2) Provision of money transmission services including electronic funds transfer systems, bulk payment file transfer capabilities and cheque processing.
3) Provision of real-time, online data and reporting relating to the services detailed above
4) Integration with NIE's SAP Systems.
Lot number: 3
Title of the lot: Banking, Money Transmission and Cash Management Services (ESBI)
Short description:
Lot 3 is concerned with supporting the requirements of ESB International (ESBI) in its overseas locations, outside of ROI & UK, to include:
1) Provision of multi-currency banking, cash management and cash pooling (where feasible) services in a number of overseas jurisdictions. ESBI currently has operations in the following locations: Turkey, Oman, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Bahrain, Tanzania, Malaysia, Vietnam, Pakistan. Operations may be expanded to other locations including, but not restricted to, Botswana, Ghana, UAE, Poland, Cyprus, Qatar, Malawi, Namibia, Zambia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Philippines, Indonesia.
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2) Provision of real-time, online data and reporting relating to the services detailed above.
3) Provision of working capital and guarantee facilities.
4) Provision of money transmission services including electronic funds transfer systems, bulk payment file transfer capabilities and cheque processing.
5) Integration with ESB's Enterprise Resource Planning (SAP) and Treasury Management Systems. This is not an immediate requirement, but may become a requirement over the lifetime of the contract.
Quantity or scope:
ESB invites qualified companies to submit expressions of interest to supply banking, cash management, cash pooling and money transmission services, with associated online transactional and reporting services.
The tender will consist of 3 Lots as described below. Please specify clearly which Lot or Lots you wish to express an interest in.
The duration of the contract for each lot will be 3 years with the option to extend by up to 4 years.
ESB's assessment of all submitted Expressions of Interest will produce a shortlist of suppliers who will receive an invitation to tender.
Lot 1:
Lot 1 is concerned with supporting the requirements of ESB and its subsidiary activities in ROI and UK (excluding Northern Ireland Electricity) to include:
1) Provision of multi-currency banking, cash management and cash pooling services to support, inter alia: retail receipts, commercial receipts, supplier & customer payments, staff payments and treasury management
2) Provision of money transmission services including electronic funds transfer systems, bulk payment file transfer capabilities, SEPA direct debit processing, and cheque processing
3) Provision of real-time, online data and reporting relating to the services detailed above.
4) Integration with ESB's Enterprise Resource Planning (SAP) and Treasury Management Systems.
Lot 2:
Lot 2 is concerned with supporting the requirements of Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) to include:
1) Provision of multi-currency banking, cash management and cash pooling services to support: customer receipts, supplier & customer payments, staff payments and treasury management – predominantly GBP.
2) Provision of money transmission services including electronic funds transfer systems, bulk payment file transfer capabilities and cheque processing.
4) Integration with NIE's SAP Systems.
Lot 3:
Lot 3 is concerned with supporting the requirements of ESB International (ESBI) in its overseas locations, outside of ROI & UK, to include:
1) Provision of multi-currency banking, cash management and cash pooling (where feasible) services in a number of overseas jurisdictions. ESBI currently has operations in the following locations: Turkey, Oman, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Bahrain, Tanzania, Malaysia, Vietnam, Pakistan. In addition, operations may be expanded to other locations including but not restricted to: Botswana, Ghana, UAE, Poland, Cyprus, Qatar, Malawi, Namibia, Zambia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Philippines, Indonesia.
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2) Provision of real-time, online data and reporting relating to the services detailed above.
3) Provision of working capital and guarantee facilities.
4) Provision of money transmission services including electronic funds transfer systems, bulk payment file transfer capabilities and cheque processing.
5) Integration with ESB's Enterprise Resource Planning (SAP) and Treasury Management Systems. This is not an immediate requirement, but may become a requirement over the lifetime of the contract.
Description of options:
The intention is to award a contract/s for an initial 3 year period. However, further extensions of up to 4 years in total may be agreed i.e. within a maximum overall contract life of 7 years.
Duration: 36 months
Reference number: SS/CON/2010
Place of performance
Main site or place of performance:
Lot 1 in Republic of Ireland (ROI) and United Kingdom (UK); Lot 2 in Northern Ireland; Lot 3 in non ROI and UK locations.

Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
Suitability to pursue the professional activity:
1) Full contact details (phone, fax, email) of the representative handling this expression of interest.
2) Full company name, address, registration number.
3) Registered company address.
4) Trading name and address.
5) A brief profile of the Candidate's organisation (date of establishment, history, overall structure, number of employees per function/location and principal activities in terms of both services and products). Candidates should provide a similar company profile for any partner company or sub-contractor with whom they intend to make a joint bid.
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6) Evidence that the service provider(s) are regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland or other equivalent regulatory authority and are appropriately licensed.
7) Provide details of your organisation's Health and Safety (H&S) Policy.
Note: failure to provide items 1-7 above will exclude participants from invitation to tender.
Economic and financial standing:
1) Audited financial statements for the last 3 years.
2) Statement from a Director confirming financial capacity to trade for the next 12 months.
3) Evidence of Insurances (expected levels to be: Employer's Liability EUR 13 m, Public Liability EUR 2.5 m, Professional Indemnity EUR 2 m each and every claim, unlimited in the aggregate).
Note: failure to provide items 1-3 above may exclude participants from invitation to tender.
Technical and professional ability:
In respect of each Lot:
1) A brief summary of the Candidate's services
2) A brief summary of the Candidate's experience of supplying these services to large organisations of similar size and scale to ESB.
3) Details of 3 relevant and recent contracts undertaken, including the customer, contact name, dates, services supplied and evidence of delivery. Unless otherwise stated ESB will assume that contact may be made with these references without further reference to the Candidate.
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In respect of Lot 3, provide details of all geographical locations where relevant/recent services have been delivered (with ref to II.2.1 above)
Note: failure to provide items 1-3 above will exclude participants from invitation to tender.
Contract execution
Deposits and guarantees required: To be specified in tender documents.
Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them: To be specified in tender documents.
Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
Where a grouping of service providers express interest, it is a requirement of ESB that one member of the group accept full contractual responsibility for delivery of the services. Where appropriate, the intended contractual responsibility member of any grouping or consortium must be identified in responding to this notice.
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Procedure
Maximum number of operators of the framework agreement: 6
Duration of the framework agreement in years: 3

Contracting authority
Contact
Contact point: Procurement, Business Service Centre
Cyril Loughlin
Internet address: www.esb.ie 🌏

Complementary information
Review body
Name: Chief Registrar
Postal address: High Court, Four Courts, Inns Quay
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 18886000 📞
Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Name: Supplier to consult own legal advisor
Source: OJS 2014/S 095-166810 (2014-05-13)
Contract award notice (2015-05-15)
Object
Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice

Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2015-05-15 📅
Publication date: 2015-05-19 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2015/S 095-173063
Refers to notice: 2014/S 95-166810
Additional information
The contract/s duration is for a period of 3 years with an option to extend for up to 4 years (total of 7 yrs).

Contracting authority
Contact
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Source: OJS 2015/S 095-173063 (2015-05-15)
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