Request for Tenders for the Provision of a new Single Financial Management Solution for the Irish Civil Service Financial Management Shared Service Centre
The Contracting Authority is seeking to establish a Financial Management Shared Services Centre (FMSSC) that will carry out the transactional elements of Financial Management processes for the Irish Civil Service and the other in-scope Public Service Bodies. The required System must be a fully integrated system capable of supporting end-to-end processes across both the FMSSC and the PSBs.
Deadline
The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2015-06-08.
The procurement was published on 2015-04-02.
Suppliers
The following suppliers are mentioned in award decisions or other procurement documents:
Modification of a contract/concession during its term (2021-12-10) Contracting authority Name and addresses
Name: The National Shared Services Office (NSSO)
National registration number: : The National Shared Services Office (NSSO)
Postal address: Trinity Point, 10/11 Leinster Street South
Postal town: Dublin 2
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Contact person: Andrew Devine
Phone: +353 17738566📞
E-mail: andrew.devine@nsso.gov.ie📧
Region: Éire/Ireland🏙️
URL: http://www.procurement.ie/🌏
Address of the buyer profile: http://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Supplier/CompanyInformation/Index/351🌏
Object Scope of the procurement
Title:
“Request for Tenders for the Provision of a new Single Financial Management Solution for the Irish Civil Service Financial Management Shared Service Centre
IHW017C”
Title
Request for Tenders for the Provision of a new Single Financial Management Solution for the Irish Civil Service Financial Management Shared Service Centre
IHW017C
Request for Tenders for the provision of a new Single Financial Management Solution for the Irish Civil Service Financial Management Shared Service Centre. Open competition that yielded two tender responses.
Show more Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
The time frame below is expressed in number of months.
Description
Duration: 48
Procedure Administrative information
Previous publication concerning this procedure: 2016/S 224-408456
Award of contract
Contract Number: 2016/S224-408456
Lot Identification Number: 1
Title:
“RFT for the provision of a new Single Financial Management Solution for the Irish Civil Service Financial Management Shared Service Centre.”
Date of conclusion of the contract: 2016-09-22 📅
Name and address of the contractor
Name: Accenture Limited
National registration number: EI6360745Q
Postal address: 1 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: D2
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 872039093📞
E-mail: derek.kearney@accenture.ie📧
Region: Éire/Ireland🏙️
The contractor is an SME
Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Total value of the contract/lot: EUR 30 000 000 💰
Complementary information Additional information
“Reasons for Modification:
The work has become necessary as a result of design changes and increments required to deliver the bespoke Solution, and a...”
Reasons for Modification:
The work has become necessary as a result of design changes and increments required to deliver the bespoke Solution, and a revised/new implementation plan and approach. All of this has resulted in significant delays to this critical programme, which will replace 31 legacy systems.
A change of contractor at this stage, for part only of the project, cannot be made for both economic and technical reasons and would cause significant inconvenience and duplication of costs for the contracting authority as described below:
(a) The Programme has already invested significant time and capital in the programme to date - implementation is under way and advanced for deployment of the common solution to the first wave of clients. There would be an extensive delay and duplication of costs associated with restarting the Programme in its entirety. The inability of any new contractor to move directly into incremental build and implementation, to the required deployment timeline, would have very serious consequences for the overall programme.
(b) A procurement process to source a new contractor would be a very lengthy process, and attracting a new contractor in the market is unlikely given:
I. the project’s complexities and challenges to date (it is a limited market - the original RFT only attracted one other response) and has been made more complex as a result of travel restrictions related to the pandemic;
II. it is not feasible to design a procurement competition which could allow potential contractors to verify what has been built to date.
In summary, a change of contractor would be completely impractical because no contractor will enter into a contract to build upon an existing solution without inflating both the associated bid and deployment timeline to reflect the risks associated with the unsighted build to date. As such, it would not be a rational decision to make this change at this critical point in the programme.
Show more Review body
Name: The High Court of Ireland
Postal town: Dublin
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 18886000📞 Review procedure
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures: Please consult your company legal advisors.
Source: OJS 2021/S 243-641884 (2021-12-10)