Business Continuity Services

Electricity Supply Board (ESB)

ESB requires the provision of these Business Continuity Services in Ireland (Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland). It is currently envisaged that the services include PCs, secure storage, details of subscribers, exercising & testing, hot site locations, security /facilities, technical support, telecommunications, MPLS, PABX /voice services and BC planning support.
As well as the work area requirement there is a need for additional support and facilities from the hot-site vendor.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2018-04-23. The procurement was published on 2018-03-22.

Who?

• Electricity Supply Board (ESB)

What?

Where?

• Éire/Ireland

Procurement history

Date	Document
2018-03-22	Contract notice
2018-12-07	Contract award notice

Contract notice (2018-03-22)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Crisis management services
Reference number: SS/CON/3707
Short description:

ESB requires the provision of these Business Continuity Services in Ireland (Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland). It is currently envisaged that the services include PCs, secure storage, details of subscribers, exercising & testing, hot site locations, security /facilities, technical support, telecommunications, MPLS, PABX /voice services and BC planning support. As well as the work area requirement there is a need for additional support and facilities from the hot-site vendor.

Notice metadata
Original language: English 🗣️
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Services
Regulation: European Union
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Crisis management services 📦
Additional CPV: Disaster recovery services 📦
Place of performance
NUTS region: Éire/Ireland 🏙️

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

Contracting authority
Identity
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Awarding authority type: Utilities entity
Awarding authority name: Electricity Supply Board (ESB)
Postal address: 2 Gateway
Postal code: East Wall Road
Postal town: Dublin 3
Contact
Internet address: http://www.esb.ie 🌏
E-mail: sharon.mcdonald@esb.ie 📧
Phone: +353 17027328 📞
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=126556&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
URL for participation: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=126556&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2018-03-22 📅
Submission deadline: 2018-04-23 📅
Publication date: 2018-03-23 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2018/S 058-129026
OJ-S issue: 58
Additional information

Please refer to the individual instructions for submission of bids relevant to each tender issued via the system.

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

As well as the work area requirement there is a need for additional support and facilities from the hot-site vendor.

Information about lots:

Applicants may apply for Lot 1, Lot 2 or lot 3 or for all lots. Applicants must state in their application which Lots are being applied for, if the applicant is applying for all lots 3 separate references must be given for each lot.

Title of the lot: Dublin
Lot number: 1
Short description:

Dublin Min 300 seats (subject to Change).

It is currently envisaged that the services include PCs, secure storage, details of subscribers, exercising & testing, hot site locations, security /facilities, technical support, telecommunications, MPLS, PABX/voice services and BC planning support.

Duration: 48 months
Description of options:

The duration of the framework agreements will be each for 4 years duration with an option, at the discretion of ESB, to extend for up to a further 36 months in 1 or more increments.

Additional information:

Please refer to the individual instructions for submission of bids relevant to each tender issued via the system.

Title of the lot: Cork
Lot number: 2
Short description: Cork Minimum 100 seats (Subject to Change).
Description of options:

The duration of the framework agreements will be each for 4 years duration with an option, at the discretion of ESB, to extend for up to a further 36 months in one or more increments.

Title of the lot: Belfast
Lot number: 3
Short description: Belfast requirement for 10-15 seats (subject to change).
Place of performance
Main site or place of performance:

Dublin.

Cork.

Belfast.

Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
Suitability to pursue the professional activity:

As stated in Procurement Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 131531.

List and brief description of rules and criteria:

List and brief description of rules and criteria: as stated in procurement documents available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 131531.

Contract execution
Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them: As in tender documents.
Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:

Where a grouping of service providers express interest in this process, it is a requirement of ESB that one member of the group accepts full contractual responsibility for the delivery of the services. Where appropriate the intended contractually responsible member of any grouping or consortium must be identified in responding to this notice.

Procedure
Minimum number of candidates: 5
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates:

Following the closing date the contracting entity will evaluate the responses with a view to selecting a list of suitable candidates to be invited to submit a tender for the framework agreement for each of the lots to which they have qualified. ESB will invite at least the 5 highest scoring applicants for each lot to the tender stage of this competition, subject to that number qualifying.

Time of receipt of tenders: 12:00
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️

Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: N/a
Contact
Contact point: Sharon McDonald
Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/377 🌏
Documents URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=126556&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏

Reference
Additional information

Interested parties must register their interest on the eTenders web site (www.etenders.gov.ie) in order to be included on the mailing list for clarifications. All information relating to attachments, including clarifications and changes, will be published on the Irish Government Procurement Opportunities Portal (www.etenders.gov.ie) only. Registration is free of charge. The contracting entity will not accept responsibility for information relayed (or not relayed) via third parties.

2— This is the sole call for competition for this service.

3— The contracting entity will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates or tenderers.

4— Contract award will be subject to the approval of the competent authorities.

5— It will be a condition of award that candidates are tax compliant.

6— If for any reason it is not possible to admit to the framework agreement one or more of the tenderers invited following the conclusion of this competitive process, or having awarded a contract under the framework agreement, the contracting entity reserves the right to invite the next highest scoring tenderer to join the framework agreement and /or deliver the contract as appropriate to the circumstances pertaining to the framework.

7— At its absolute discretion, the contracting entity may elect to terminate this procurement process, the framework agreement or any contract awarded under the framework agreement at any time.

8— Please note in relation to all documents, that where reference is made to a particular standard, make, source, process, trademark, type or patent, that this is not to be regarded as a de facto requirement. In all such cases it should be understood that such indications are to be treated strictly and solely for reference purposes only, to which the words “or equivalent” will always be appended.

9— Without prejudice to the principle of equal treatment, the contracting entity is not obliged to engage in a clarification process in respect of questionnaires with missing or incomplete information. Therefore, candidates are advised to ensure that they return fully completed questionnaires in order to avoid the risk of elimination from the competition.

10— At Section II.2.9 we have indicated that 5 applicants will be invited to tender, please note that the contracting entity reserves the right to invite at least 5 applicants subject to that number qualifying

Complementary information
Review body
Name: Chief Registrar
Postal address: Four Courts, Inns Quay
Postal town: Dublin 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 18886000 📞
Internet address: http://www.courts.ie 🌏
Source: OJS 2018/S 058-129026 (2018-03-22)

Contract award notice (2018-12-07)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

ESB requires the provision of these business continuity services in IRELAND (Republic of IRELAND and NORTHERN IRELAND). It is currently envisaged that the services include PCs, secure storage, details of subscribers, exercising and testing, hot site locations, security/facilities, technical support, telecommunications, MPLS, PABX/voice services and BC planning support. As well as the work area requirement, there is a need for additional support and facilities from the hot-site vendor.

Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice

Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable

Contracting authority
Identity
Postal address: 2 Gateway, East Wall Road

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2018-12-07 📅
Publication date: 2018-12-11 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2018/S 238-544883
Refers to notice: 2018/S 058-129026
OJ-S issue: 238

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

ESB requires the provision of these business continuity services in IRELAND (Republic of IRELAND and NORTHERN IRELAND).

It is currently envisaged that the services include PCs, secure storage, details of subscribers, exercising and testing, hot site locations, security/facilities, technical support, telecommunications, MPLS, PABX/voice services and BC planning support.

As well as the work area requirement, there is a need for additional support and facilities from the hot-site vendor.

Dublin: minimum 300 seats (subject to change).

Description of options:

The duration of the Framework Agreements will be each for four (4) years duration with an option, at the discretion of ESB, to extend for up to a further 36 months in 1 or more increments.

Short description: Cork: minimum 100 seats (subject to change).

Reference
Additional information

Please note that we have taken the decision not to proceed with any of the lots in this procurement for the following reason:

— change in requirements.

Source: OJS 2018/S 238-544883 (2018-12-07)

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