A Multi Supplier Framework for the Provision of IT Infrastructure and Related Services

Ervia

The Contracting Entity is undertaking a competitive tender process to establish a multi supplier framework agreement that will provision for all IT infrastructure and related services across Ervia, its subsidiaries and business units. It is the intention to appoint service providers to support the delivery of these requirements in the eight areas referenced below, each of which will constitute a separate lot. Lot 1 โ€” Enterprise Class Servers; Lot 2 โ€” Security Infrastructure; Lot 3 โ€” Desktop Devices; Lot 4 โ€” Mobile Devices; Lot 5 โ€” Network Infrastructure; Lot 6 โ€” Storage Infrastructure; Lot 7 โ€” Cloud Services; Lot 8 โ€” Converged Infrastructure. The framework agreement will be established for a term of five (5) years with the option to extend for a further period of up to 2 years at the sole discretion of Ervia. Maximum of 10 applicants per lot will be invited to tender for ITT stage, where the minimum requirements are demonstrated.
Please refer to the PQQ document for further details.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2017-04-22. The procurement was published on 2017-03-08.

Suppliers

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

Who? What? Where?
Procurement history
Date Document
2017-03-08 Contract notice
2021-11-05 Contract award notice
Contract notice (2017-03-08)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Information systems and servers
Reference number: 17/036
Short description:
The Contracting Entity is undertaking a competitive tender process to establish a multi supplier framework agreement that will provision for all IT infrastructure and related services across Ervia, its subsidiaries and business units. It is the intention to appoint service providers to support the delivery of these requirements in the eight areas referenced below, each of which will constitute a separate lot. Lot 1 โ€” Enterprise Class Servers; Lot 2 โ€” Security Infrastructure; Lot 3 โ€” Desktop Devices; Lot 4 โ€” Mobile Devices; Lot 5 โ€” Network Infrastructure; Lot 6 โ€” Storage Infrastructure; Lot 7 โ€” Cloud Services; Lot 8 โ€” Converged Infrastructure. The framework agreement will be established for a term of five (5) years with the option to extend for a further period of up to 2 years at the sole discretion of Ervia. Maximum of 10 applicants per lot will be invited to tender for ITT stage, where the minimum requirements are demonstrated. Please refer to the PQQ document for further details.
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Notice metadata
Original language: English ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Supplies
Regulation: European Union
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Information systems and servers ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Additional CPV: Desktop computer ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Place of performance
NUTS region: ร‰ire/Ireland ๐Ÿ™๏ธ

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

Contracting authority
Identity
Country: Ireland ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
Awarding authority type: Utilities entity
Awarding authority name: Ervia
Postal address: PO Box 900, Webworks, Eglinton Street
Postal town: Cork
Contact
Internet address: http://www.ervia.ie ๐ŸŒ
E-mail: tenders@ervia.ie ๐Ÿ“ง
Phone: +353 214239083 ๐Ÿ“ž
URL for documents: http://etenders.gov.ie/ ๐ŸŒ

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2017-03-08 ๐Ÿ“…
Submission deadline: 2017-04-22 ๐Ÿ“…
Publication date: 2017-03-10 ๐Ÿ“…
Identifiers
Notice number: 2017/S 049-090463
OJ-S issue: 49
Additional information
A pre-qualification questionnaire will be available to all candidates who register an interest via eTenders in the competition. Please submit all queries via email for the attention of The Shared Services Procurement Manager to Tenders@ervia.ie The questionnaire must be completed and returned to the address in I.1. above not later than 12.00hrs Friday 21st April 2017.
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Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
The Contracting Entity is undertaking a competitive tender process to establish a multi supplier framework agreement that will provision for all IT infrastructure and related services across Ervia, its subsidiaries and business units. It is the intention to appoint service providers to support the delivery of these requirements in the eight areas referenced below, each of which will constitute a separate lot. Lot 1 โ€” Enterprise Class Servers; Lot 2 โ€” Security Infrastructure; Lot 3 โ€” Desktop Devices; Lot 4 โ€” Mobile Devices; Lot 5 โ€” Network Infrastructure; Lot 6 โ€” Storage Infrastructure; Lot 7 โ€” Cloud Services; Lot 8 โ€” Converged Infrastructure. The framework agreement will be established for a term of five (5) years with the option to extend for a further period of up to 2 years at the sole discretion of Ervia. Maximum of 10 applicants per lot will be invited to tender for ITT stage, where the minimum requirements are demonstrated.
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Please refer to the PQQ document for further details.
Title of the lot: Enterprise Class Servers
Lot number: 1
Short description:
Scope of service is the provision of Enterprise Class Servers and ancillary services to Ervia including but not limited to implementation, consultancy, maintenance and licensing, as well as associated products such as Racks, KVM's, Memory, Hard
Drives, Input devices etc. The services should include planning, configuration and testing through proven methodologies and implementation techniques.
Duration: 60 months
Description of renewals: An option to extend for a period of Two (2) years.
Description of options: An option to extend for a period of Two (2) years.
Additional information:
A pre-qualification questionnaire will be available to all candidates who register an interest via eTenders in the competition. Please submit all queries via
email for the attention of The Shared Services Procurement Manager to Tenders@ervia.ie
The questionnaire must be completed and returned to the address in I.1. above not later than 12.00hrs Friday 21st April 2017.
Title of the lot: Security Infrastructure
Lot number: 2
Short description:
Scope of service is the provision of Security Infrastructure and ancillary services to Ervia
including but not limited to implementation, consultancy, maintenance and licensing, as well as associated products such as Firewalls, Intrusion Detection Systems and Intrusion Prevention. The services should include planning, configuration and
testing through proven methodologies and implementation techniques.
Additional information:
A pre-qualification questionnaire will be available to all candidates who register an interest via eTenders in the competition. Please submit all queries via email for the attention of The Shared Services Procurement Manager to Tenders@ervia.ie
Title of the lot: Desktop Devices
Lot number: 3
Short description:
Scope of service is the provision of Desktop Devices and ancillary services to Ervia including but not limited to implementation, consultancy, maintenance,
licensing as well as associated products such as Laptops, PC's and Thin Clients. The service will also include industry best practices to optimise the
management of laptop and desktop devices. This may include but not limited to application packaging to image and patch management.
Title of the lot: Mobile Devices
Lot number: 4
Short description:
Scope of service is the provision of Mobile Devices and ancillary services to Ervia including but not limited to implementation, consultancy, maintenance, licensing as well as associated products such as Mobile Handsets, Mobile Voice & Data
Communications Services, Mobile Devices & Tablet devices.
Please refer to the PQQ for further details.
Title of the lot: Network Infrastructure
Lot number: 5
Short description:
The expected scope of service is the provision of Network Infrastructure and ancillary services to Ervia including but not limited to implementation, consultancy, maintenance, licensing as well as associated products such as LAN Switches, POE Switches, Routers, Wireless Connectivity, Network Modules & Lines Cards. The services should include planning, configuration and testing through proven methodologies and implementation techniques.
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Additional information:
A pre-qualification questionnaire will be available to all candidates who register an interest via eTenders in the competition. Please submit all queries via email for the attention of The Shared Services Procurement Manager to Tenders@ervia.ie The
questionnaire must be completed and returned to the address in I.1. above not later than 12.00hrs Friday 21st April 2017.
Title of the lot: Storage Infrastructure
Lot number: 6
Short description:
The expected scope of service is the provision of Storage Infrastructure and ancillary services to Ervia including but not limited to implementation, consultancy, licensing and maintenance, as well as associated products such as storage devices, disks,
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disk shelves, fabric switches, GBICs & cabling. The services should include planning, configuration and testing through proven methodologies and implementation techniques.
Additional information:
email for the attention of The Shared Services Procurement Manager to Tenders@ervia.ie The questionnaire must be completed and returned to the
address in I.1. above not later than 12.00hrs Friday 21st April 2017.
Title of the lot: Cloud Services
Lot number: 7
Short description:
The expected scope of service is the provision of Cloud Services & ancillary services to Ervia including but not limited to implementation, consultancy, licensing &/or maintenance in addition to access to public &/or secure/private (not shared) cloud
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environments, provisioning and termination policies, up/download capabilities. These environments should include servers, storage etc. as required.
Please refer to PQQ for further details.
Title of the lot: Converged Infrastructure
Lot number: 8
Short description:
Scope of service is the provisioning, implementation & technical services including maintenance &/or licensing of converged & hyper converged infrastructure platforms containing but not limited to servers, storage, networking including integration to
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the wider Ervia estate of applications.

Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Contract execution
Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
Requests to participate may be submitted by single entities or by groups of service providers. A group will not be required to convert into a specific legal form in order to submit a request to participate, but may if the Contracting Entity considers it necessary to ensure that the contract is carried out to its satisfaction, be required to do so prior to award of the contract. The Contracting Entity also reserves the right to contract with each member of the group on the basis of joint and several liability, or with one member of the group as a main contractor with a number of sub-contractors or on any other basis as the Contracting Entity considers appropriate.
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Procedure
Maximum number of candidates: 10
Number of participants to be contemplated: 40
Time of receipt of tenders: 12:00
Date of dispatch of invitations: 2017-04-25 ๐Ÿ“…
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ
Irish ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ
Tender validity period: 6 months

Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: N/a
Contact
Contact point: Tender Admin
Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/376 ๐ŸŒ
Documents URL: http://etenders.gov.ie/ ๐ŸŒ

Reference
Additional information
A pre-qualification questionnaire will be available to all candidates who register an interest via eTenders in the competition.
The Questionnaire will cover the financial, economic and technical capacity of candidates. The questionnaire must be completed and returned to the address in I.1. above not later than not later than 12:00 Friday 21.4.2017. The responses will be used to assist in drawing up a tender list. This process may also include interviews with candidates. The contracting entity will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates or tenderers relating to this contract award procedure.
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To receive more information about this tender, including any amendments and/or clarifications and to request any clarifications email to tenders@ervia.ie

Complementary information
Review body
Name: The High Court
Postal address: High Court Central Office, Four Courts, Inns Quay,
Postal town: Dublin
Country: Ireland ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
Phone: +35 318886000 ๐Ÿ“ž
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie ๐Ÿ“ง
Internet address: http://www.courts.ie ๐ŸŒ
Information about review deadlines:
Please refer to Statutory Instrument 131 of 2010, European Communities (Award of Contracts by Utility Undertaking) (Review Procedures) Regulations 2010 (and in particular Regulation 7 and 10(2)).
Source: OJS 2017/S 049-090463 (2017-03-08)
Contract award notice (2021-11-05)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
The Contracting Entity is undertaking a competitive tender process to establish a multi supplier framework agreement that will provision for all IT infrastructure and related services across Ervia, its subsidiaries and business units. It is the intention to appoint service providers to support the delivery of these requirements in the eight areas referenced below, each of which will constitute a separate lot. Lot 1 โ€“ Enterprise Class Servers; Lot 2 โ€“ Security Infrastructure; Lot 3 โ€“ Desktop Devices; Lot 4 โ€“ Mobile Devices; Lot 5 โ€“ Network Infrastructure; Lot 6 โ€“ Storage Infrastructure; Lot 7 โ€“ Cloud Services; Lot 8 โ€“ Converged Infrastructure. The framework agreement will be established for a term of five (5) years with the option to extend for a further period of up to 2 years at the sole discretion of Ervia. Maximum of 10 applicants per lot will be invited to tender for ITT stage, where the minimum requirements are demonstrated. Please refer to the PQQ document for further details.
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Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice
Regulation: European Union, with participation of GPA countries

Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable
Award criteria
Lowest price

Contracting authority
Identity
Postal address: P.O.Box 900, Webworks, Eglinton Street
Postal code: Cork

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2021-11-05 ๐Ÿ“…
Publication date: 2021-11-10 ๐Ÿ“…
Identifiers
Notice number: 2021/S 218-575259
Refers to notice: 2017/S 049-090463
OJ-S issue: 218

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
The Contracting Entity is undertaking a competitive tender process to establish a multi supplier framework agreement that will provision for all IT infrastructure and related services across Ervia, its subsidiaries and business units. It is the intention to appoint service providers to support the delivery of these requirements in the eight areas referenced below, each of which will constitute a separate lot. Lot 1 โ€“ Enterprise Class Servers; Lot 2 โ€“ Security Infrastructure; Lot 3 โ€“ Desktop Devices; Lot 4 โ€“ Mobile Devices; Lot 5 โ€“ Network Infrastructure; Lot 6 โ€“ Storage Infrastructure; Lot 7 โ€“ Cloud Services; Lot 8 โ€“ Converged Infrastructure. The framework agreement will be established for a term of five (5) years with the option to extend for a further period of up to 2 years at the sole discretion of Ervia. Maximum of 10 applicants per lot will be invited to tender for ITT stage, where the minimum requirements are demonstrated.
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licensing as well as associated products such as Laptops, PCโ€™s and Thin Clients. The service will also include industry best practices to optimise the
Additional information:
A pre-qualification questionnaire will be available to all candidates who register an interest via eTenders in the competition. Please submit all queries via email for the attention of The Shared Services Procurement Manager to Tenders@ervia.ie
The questionnaire must be completed and returned to the address in I.1. above not later than 12.00hrs Friday 21st April 2017.
Short description:
Scope of service is the provisioning, implementation & technical services including maintenance &/or licensing of converged & hyper converged infrastructure platforms containing but not limited to servers, storage, networking including integration to
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Additional information:
A pre-qualification questionnaire will be available to all candidates who register an interest via eTenders in the competition. Please submit all queries via email for the attention of The Shared Services Procurement Manager to Tenders@ervia.ie
The questionnaire must be completed and returned to the address in I.1. above not later than 12.00hrs Friday 21st April 2017.
Place of performance
Main site or place of performance: Ireland

Award of contract
Date of contract conclusion: 2017-12-06 ๐Ÿ“…
Name: Asystec Limited
Postal town: Limerick
Country: Ireland ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
Name: Bechtle Direct Limited
Postal town: Dublin
Name: Ergo Services Ltd
Evros Technology Group
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Ireland Limited
Postal town: Kildare
Name: Logicalis Solutions Ltd
Fujitsu (Ireland) Limited
Integrity Communications Limited
Date of contract conclusion: 2017-11-06 ๐Ÿ“…
Name: PFH Technology Group
Postal town: Cork
Name: PlanNet21 Communications Ltd
Softcat Ltd
Postal town: Manchester
Country: United Kingdom ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง
Name: Spirit Data Capture Ltd
Postal town: Cheshire
Name: Vodafone Ireland Limited
Eircom Limited t/a Eir
Damovo Global Services
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 7

Reference
Additional information
The Questionnaire will cover the financial, economic and technical capacity of candidates. The questionnaire must be completed and returned to the address in I.1. above not later than not later than 12.00hrs Friday 21st April 2017. The responses will be used to assist in drawing up a tender list. This process may also include interviews with candidates. The contracting entity will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates or tenderers relating to this contract award procedure.
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Source: OJS 2021/S 218-575259 (2021-11-05)
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