Mobile Phone Handsets and associated Mobile Phone Service

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade/An Roinn Gnóthaí Eachtracha agus Trádála

The Department has a requirement for Mobile Phone Handsets and associated Mobile Phone Service. Responses should include options for SIM Only subscriptions as well as subsidised smartphone handsets. The nature of the work of the Department and its staff, involves significant overseas travel, so access to cost effective calls and texts to overseas locations and roaming mobile phone and data services along with the ability to change subscriptions for short periods of time is a key requirement.
The Department invites respondents to propose possible bundle options for cost effective voice, text and data bundles for national and international use. All handsets must be a minimum quad band for use worldwide. The Department has specific technical specifications and requirements for its smartphones, and responses should include options for the range of models available currently that meet these technical requirements.

Deadline
The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2016-11-17. The procurement was published on 2016-10-11.

Suppliers
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Procurement history
Date Document
2016-10-11 Contract notice
2016-10-28 Additional information
2017-04-28 Contract award notice
Additional information (2016-10-28)
Contracting authority
Name and addresses
Name:
“Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade/An Roinn Gnóthaí Eachtracha agus Trádála”
National registration number: N/a
Postal address: 80 St Stephen's Green
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: DO2 VY53
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Contact person: Patrick Bailey
Phone: +353 14082642 📞
E-mail: consultant.tenders@dfa.ie 📧
Region: Éire/Ireland 🏙️
URL: http://www.dfa.ie 🌏
Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/246 🌏

Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Mobile Phone Handsets and associated Mobile Phone Service. PR Brussels
Products/services: Mobile telephones 📦
Short description:
“The Department has a requirement for Mobile Phone Handsets and associated Mobile Phone Service. Responses should include options for SIM Only subscriptions...”    Show more

Complementary information
Original notice reference
Notice number in the OJ S: 2016/S 200-360386

Changes
Text to be corrected in the original notice
Section number: II.2.3
Place of text to be modified: Place of performance
Old value
Text: NUTS code: IE
New value
Text: NUTS code: IE, BE
Source: OJS 2016/S 211-384054 (2016-10-28)