Provision of School Routers and Associated Services and the Management of existing School Routers

Department of Education and Skills

Currently there are approximately 3 200 schools connections in place under this programme, the majority of schools have one broadband connection with a small amount of schools with two connections. The Existing Routers installed in schools are either a Cisco 871, a Cisco 881 or a Cisco867VAE router (specification attached at appendix 9).
In addition to the routers in place in schools the Minister also owns a number of spares (approximately 290). The Minister wishes to put in place a draw down facility for the purchase of new CPE routers for schools.
In addition to supply of the new CPE router the provider will be expected to manage the existing estate of routers.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2015-12-06. The procurement was published on 2015-10-27.

Suppliers

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

Who? What? Where?
Procurement history
Date Document
2015-10-27 Contract notice
2017-01-16 Contract award notice
Contract notice (2015-10-27)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Telecommunications equipment and supplies
Quantity or scope: 700 000
Total value of the procurement: 700 000 💰
Notice metadata
Original language: English 🗣️
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Supplies
Regulation: European Union
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Telecommunications equipment and supplies 📦

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 Education and Skills
Postal address: Marlborough Street
Postal code: 1
Postal town: Dublin
Contact
Internet address: http://www.education.ie 🌏
E-mail: karen_murtagh@education.gov.ie 📧
Phone: +353 18896413 📞

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2015-10-27 📅
Submission deadline: 2015-12-06 📅
Publication date: 2015-10-29 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2015/S 210-380972
OJ-S issue: 210

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
Currently there are approximately 3 200 schools connections in place under this programme, the majority of schools have one broadband connection with a small amount of schools with two connections. The Existing Routers installed in schools are either a Cisco 871, a Cisco 881 or a Cisco867VAE router (specification attached at appendix 9).
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In addition to the routers in place in schools the Minister also owns a number of spares (approximately 290). The Minister wishes to put in place a draw down facility for the purchase of new CPE routers for schools.
In addition to supply of the new CPE router the provider will be expected to manage the existing estate of routers.
Number of possible renewals: 1
Time frame for subsequent contracts: 12 months
Duration: 024 months
Reference number: School Router
Place of performance
Main site or place of performance: Dublin.

Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
Economic and financial standing:
Turnover in excess of 100 000 EUR per annum for each of the past 3 complete financial years. At least 75 % of the Tenderer‘s turnover in each of the past 3 complete financial years must have originated from the supply of telecommunications products and services and associated logistics.
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Technical and professional ability:
In order to qualify for inclusion on the Framework Tenderers must demonstrate that they have the following technical and professional abilities. Tenderers will either pass or fail this qualification criterion:
— The core services offered by Tenderers must relate to the provision of telecommunications goods and services and associated logistics.
All Tenderers must demonstrate that they have the experience to provide high quality services of a similar type to those sought herein and must furnish the following documentation with their Tenders:
a. A list of services similar to those sought under this RFT provided by the Tenderer within the last 3 years, giving an indication of the scale of the project, names of service recipients, estimated contract values, contract performance dates of the services provided, and
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b. 2 satisfactory references (including contact name and contact details). The proposed referees may be contacted as part of the evaluation process without prior notice being given to the Tenderer.

Procedure
Tender validity period: 006 months
Languages
Language: English 🗣️
Irish 🗣️

Contracting authority
Contact
Contact point: Karen Murtagh
Address of the buyer profile: http://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Supplier/CompanyInformation/Index/1142 🌏
URL for participation: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=93781&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=93781&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏

Reference
Identifiers
Reference number attributed by the contracting authority: School Router
Source: OJS 2015/S 210-380972 (2015-10-27)
Contract award notice (2017-01-16)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
Currently there are approximately 3 200 schools connections in place under this programme, the majority of schools have one broadband connection with a small amount of schools with 2 connections. The Existing Routers installed in schools are either a Cisco 871, a Cisco 881 or a Cisco867VAE router (specification attached at appendix 9). In addition to the routers in place in schools the Minister also owns a number of spares (approximately 290). The Minister wishes to put in place a draw down facility for the purchase of new CPE routers for schools. In addition to supply of the new CPE router the provider will be expected to manage the existing estate of routers.
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Total value of the procurement: 700 000 EUR 💰
Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice
Place of performance
NUTS region: Éire/Ireland 🏙️

Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable

Contracting authority
Contact
E-mail: noel_hannon@educaton.gov.ie 📧
Phone: +353 018896413 📞

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2017-01-16 📅
Publication date: 2017-01-19 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2017/S 013-019510
Refers to notice: 2015/S 210-380972
OJ-S issue: 13

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description: Routers and Associated Services for schools broadband connectivity.

Procedure
Award criteria
Quality criterion (name): Technical characteristics
Quality criterion (weighting): 25
Quality criterion (name): Quality of management system
Quality criterion (weighting): 20
Quality criterion (name): Tech support
Quality criterion (weighting): 5
Cost criterion: Router, support, visits
Cost weighting: 50

Award of contract
Date of contract conclusion: 2016-01-12 📅

Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: N/a
Contact
Contact point: Noel Hannon

Complementary information
Review body
Name: Office of Government Procurement
Postal town: Dublin
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Source: OJS 2017/S 013-019510 (2017-01-16)
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