An Post, established in 1984, operates the National Postal Service along with an array of money transmission, savings and retail services throughout Ireland. In addition, An Post provides agency services for government departments and other bodies. As a national service provider, An Post services over 1 600 000 delivery addresses daily and in excess of 1 700 000 customers each week through 1 135 retail post office outlets nationwide. An Post has an annual turnover in excess of 800 000 000 EUR. The An Post group includes a number of subsidiaries and associated companies including One Direct, Postpoint, An Post Billpost Processing Services Limited, Post Consult International Limited, PrintPost Limited, and The Prize Bond Company Limited and GPO IEC Ltd. An Post is seeking to enter into a single party framework agreement with 1 provider for a period of 3 years with an option to extend for a further 2 to meet its requirements for the sourcing and fulfilment of mobile handsets and associated services.
Postmobile is a MVNO operated by An Post. Our network services are provided by Vodafone. Postmobile currently offer prepay mobile services to customers through 250 post offices nationwide and our website/webshop, www.postmobile.ie Supply chain services will be to these participating Postmobile Post Offices and online sales fulfilment. We offer competitive mobile rates and bundles to customers wishing to avail of value for money mobile services, frequently these offers are promoted along with a suitable handset to maximise sales. Postmobile has a current customer base of 20 000 customers and growing.
Deadline
The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2015-09-14.
The procurement was published on 2015-08-14.
Suppliers
The following suppliers are mentioned in award decisions or other procurement documents:
Object Scope of the procurement
Title: Provision of Mobile handsets and associated services.
Products/services: Mobile telephones📦
Short description:
“As a national service provider, An Post services over 1 600 000 delivery addresses daily and in excess of 1 700 000 customers each week through 1 135 retail...”
Short description
As a national service provider, An Post services over 1 600 000 delivery addresses daily and in excess of 1 700 000 customers each week through 1 135 retail Post Office outlets nationwide. An Post has an annual turnover in excess of 800 000 000 EUR. The An Post group includes a number of subsidiaries and associated companies including One Direct, Postpoint, An Post Billpost Processing Services Limited, Post Consult International Limited, PrintPost Limited and The Prize Bond Company Limited and GPO IEC Ltd Postmobile is a MVNO operated by An Post, our network services are provided by Vodafone.
Postmobile currently offer pre-pay mobile services to customers through 250 Post Offices nationwide and our web site/web shop: www.postmobile.ie Supply chain services will be to these participating Postmobile Post Offices and online sales fulfilment.
Postmobile has a current customer base of 20 000 Customers and growing.
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Additional products/services: Storage and warehousing services📦
Additional products/services: Mobile-telephone services📦
Place of performance: Éire/Ireland🏙️
Description of the procurement:
“As a national service provider, An Post services over 1 600 000 delivery addresses daily and in excess of 1 700 000 customers each week through 1 135 retail...”
Description of the procurement
As a national service provider, An Post services over 1 600 000 delivery addresses daily and in excess of 1 700 000 customers each week through 1 135 retail Post Office outlets nationwide. The An Post group includes a number of subsidiaries and associated companies including One Direct, Postpoint, An Post Billpost Processing Services Limited, Post Consult International Limited, PrintPost Limited and The Prize Bond Company Limited and GPO IEC Ltd Postmobile is a MVNO operated by An Post, our network services are provided by Vodafone. Postmobile has a current customer base of 20 000 Customers and growing.
Procedure Type of procedure
Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
Information about framework agreement
The procurement involves the establishment of a framework agreement
Administrative information
Previous publication concerning this procedure: 2015/S 159-292980
Award of contract
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Contract Number: 1
Lot Identification Number: 1
Title: Provision of Mobile handsets and associated services
Date of conclusion of the contract: 2016-03-23 📅
Name and address of the contractor
Name: Fonua Ltd
National registration number: ie8267717j
Postal address: Cairn House, South County Business Park, Leopardstown
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: 18
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: eddie.mcwilliams@fonua.com📧
Region: Éire/Ireland🏙️
URL: http://www.fonua.com🌏
The contractor is an SME
Complementary information Review body
Name: High Court
Postal address: Four Courts
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Source: OJS 2016/S 119-211816 (2016-06-18)