Competition for the Provision of sales and related services of Child 16-18 and Student Leap Cards
National Transport Authority
The Authority intends to award a contract to a service provider to provide three different types of personalised Leap Cards for the purposes of offering discounted travel fares to verified eligible cardholders:
1) Child 16-18 Leap Card;
2) Student Leap Card; and
3) A third card type, Young Adult Leap Card that may be introduced during the lifetime of the contract.
The contract is for the establishment and operation of an online and national over the counter sales network for such cards. The Authority will supply the successful tenderer with branded, numbered pre-printed Leap Cards, for over-printing and further electronic configuration by the successful tenderer with personalisation details. The successful tenderer shall be responsible for all other activities associated with the sale and distribution of the Cards.
The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2018-11-22. The procurement was published on 2018-10-18.
SuppliersThe following suppliers are mentioned in award decisions or other procurement documents:
Who? What?- • Advertising and marketing services › Marketing services
- • Bookkeeping services › Sales and purchases recording services
- • Magnetic cards › Smart cards
- • Miscellaneous transport equipment and spare parts › Transport tickets
- • Security-type printed matter › Tickets
- • System and support services › Helpdesk and support services
- • Travel agency and similar services › Sale of travel tickets and package tours services
Procurement history
| Date | Document |
|---|---|
| 2018-10-18 | Contract notice |
| 2020-05-11 | Contract award notice |
Contract notice (2018-10-18)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Smart cards
Short description:
Notice metadata
Original language: English 🗣️
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Services
Regulation: European Union, with participation of GPA countries
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Smart cards 📦
Additional CPV: Tickets 📦
Place of performance
NUTS region: Ireland 🏙️
Procedure
Procedure type: Restricted procedure
Type of bid: Submission for all lots
Award criteria
The most economic tender
Contracting authority
Identity
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Awarding authority type: National or federal Agency/Office
Awarding authority name: National Transport Authority
Postal address: Dun Sceine, Iveagh Court, Harcourt Lane
Postal code: D02 WT20
Postal town: Dublin 2
Contact
Internet address: https://nationaltransport.ie 🌏
E-mail: procurement@nationaltransport.ie 📧
Phone: +353 1-8798362 📞
Fax: +353 1-8798333 📠
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=136907&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
URL for participation: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=136907&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2018-10-18 📅
Submission deadline: 2018-11-22 📅
Publication date: 2018-10-23 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2018/S 204-465324
OJ-S issue: 204
Additional information
Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
Duration: 48 months
Description of renewals:
Place of performance
Main site or place of performance: Ireland
Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
Suitability to pursue the professional activity: As set out in the procurement documents.
Contract execution
Contract performance conditions: As set out in the procurement documents.
Procedure
Legal basis: 32014L0024
Envisaged number of candidates: 6
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates: As set out in the procurement documents.
Time of receipt of tenders: 12:00
Date of dispatch of invitations: 2018-12-14 📅
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Tender validity period: 2019-05-21 📅
Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: N/a
Contact
Contact point: Mark Bradwell
Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/1149 🌏
Documents URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=136907&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
Reference
Additional information
Complementary information
Review body
Name: High Court of Ireland
Postal address: Four Courts, Ground Floor (East Wing), Inns Quay
Postal town: Dublin 7
Postal code: D7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 18886000 📞
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie 📧
Fax: +353 18886125 📠
Internet address: http://www.courts.ie 🌏
Information about review deadlines:
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Smart cards
Short description:
The Authority intends to award a contract to a service provider to provide three different types of personalised Leap Cards for the purposes of offering discounted travel fares to verified eligible cardholders:
1) Child 16-18 Leap Card;
2) Student Leap Card; and
3) A third card type, Young Adult Leap Card that may be introduced during the lifetime of the contract.
The contract is for the establishment and operation of an online and national over the counter sales network for such cards. The Authority will supply the successful tenderer with branded, numbered pre-printed Leap Cards, for over-printing and further electronic configuration by the successful tenderer with personalisation details. The successful tenderer shall be responsible for all other activities associated with the sale and distribution of the Cards.
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Original language: English 🗣️
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Services
Regulation: European Union, with participation of GPA countries
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Smart cards 📦
Additional CPV: Tickets 📦
Place of performance
NUTS region: Ireland 🏙️
Procedure
Procedure type: Restricted procedure
Type of bid: Submission for all lots
Award criteria
The most economic tender
Contracting authority
Identity
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Awarding authority type: National or federal Agency/Office
Awarding authority name: National Transport Authority
Postal address: Dun Sceine, Iveagh Court, Harcourt Lane
Postal code: D02 WT20
Postal town: Dublin 2
Contact
Internet address: https://nationaltransport.ie 🌏
E-mail: procurement@nationaltransport.ie 📧
Phone: +353 1-8798362 📞
Fax: +353 1-8798333 📠
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=136907&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
URL for participation: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=136907&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2018-10-18 📅
Submission deadline: 2018-11-22 📅
Publication date: 2018-10-23 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2018/S 204-465324
OJ-S issue: 204
Additional information
The contracting authority will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates or tenderers relating to this contract award procedure irrespective of the outcome of the competition, or if the competition is postponed or cancelled. All costs incurred by interested parties in participating in this competition must be borne by them. Any contract award will be subject to a number of preconditions, including production of a current tax clearance certificate or tax clearance statement from the Revenue Commissioners in Ireland. The contracting authority may terminate this competition (or any part thereof), change the basis of and the procedures for the bidding process, at any time, or procure the project by alternative means if it appears that the project can thereby be more advantageously procured.
The most economically advantageous or any tender will not automatically be accepted.
Refer to procurement documents for further information.
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Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
The Authority intends to award a contract to a service provider to provide three different types of personalised Leap Cards for the purposes of offering discounted travel fares to verified eligible cardholders:
1) Child 16-18 Leap Card;
2) Student Leap Card; and
3) A third card type, Young Adult Leap Card that may be introduced during the lifetime of the contract.
The contract is for the establishment and operation of an online and national over the counter sales network for such cards. The Authority will supply the successful tenderer with branded, numbered pre-printed Leap Cards, for over-printing and further electronic configuration by the successful tenderer with personalisation details. The successful tenderer shall be responsible for all other activities associated with the sale and distribution of the Cards.
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Description of renewals:
The term of the Contract will be for 4 years from the operational Services Start Date (which will follow the acceptance of the system by the Authority, i.e. after the Initial Services phase), with options for the Authority to extend the term for any period or succession of periods up to a further 4 years. The option to extend rests solely with the Authority.
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Main site or place of performance: Ireland
Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
Suitability to pursue the professional activity: As set out in the procurement documents.
Contract execution
Contract performance conditions: As set out in the procurement documents.
Procedure
Legal basis: 32014L0024
Envisaged number of candidates: 6
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates: As set out in the procurement documents.
Time of receipt of tenders: 12:00
Date of dispatch of invitations: 2018-12-14 📅
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Tender validity period: 2019-05-21 📅
Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: N/a
Contact
Contact point: Mark Bradwell
Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/1149 🌏
Documents URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=136907&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
Reference
Additional information
The contracting authority will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates or tenderers relating to this contract award procedure irrespective of the outcome of the competition, or if the competition is postponed or cancelled. All costs incurred by interested parties in participating in this competition must be borne by them. Any contract award will be subject to a number of preconditions, including production of a current tax clearance certificate or tax clearance statement from the Revenue Commissioners in Ireland. The contracting authority may terminate this competition (or any part thereof), change the basis of and the procedures for the bidding process, at any time, or procure the project by alternative means if it appears that the project can thereby be more advantageously procured.
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The most economically advantageous or any tender will not automatically be accepted.
Refer to procurement documents for further information.
Complementary information
Review body
Name: High Court of Ireland
Postal address: Four Courts, Ground Floor (East Wing), Inns Quay
Postal town: Dublin 7
Postal code: D7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 18886000 📞
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie 📧
Fax: +353 18886125 📠
Internet address: http://www.courts.ie 🌏
Information about review deadlines:
As set out in S.I. No. 130/2010 European Communities (Public Authorities' Contracts) (Review Procedures) Regulations 2010 (in particular Regulation 7 thereof).
Source: OJS 2018/S 204-465324 (2018-10-18)
Contract award notice (2020-05-11)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
Total value of the procurement: 10 957 000 EUR 💰
Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice
Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable
Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2020-05-11 📅
Publication date: 2020-05-14 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2020/S 094-224897
Refers to notice: 2018/S 204-465324
OJ-S issue: 94
Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
Place of performance
Main site or place of performance: IRELAND.
Procedure
Award criteria
Quality criterion (name): Initial services plan
Quality criterion (weighting): 5
Quality criterion (name): Operations plan
Quality criterion (weighting): 45
Quality criterion (name): System design plan
Quality criterion (weighting): 15
Quality criterion (name): Quality and performance management plan
Price (weighting): 30
Award of contract
Date of contract conclusion: 2020-04-09 📅
Name: Credit Card Systems Ireland Ltd
National registration number: IE9Y641301
Postal address: Coolmine Ind Est, Clonsilla
Postal town: Dublin 15
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 16404200 📞
E-mail: paulc@fimak.com 📧
Country: Dublin 🏙️
Internet address: http://www.ccsireland.ie 🌏
Total value of the procurement: 10 957 000 EUR 💰
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 3
Complementary information
Review body
Information about review deadlines:
Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
The authority intends to award a contract to a service provider to provide three different types of personalised leap cards for the purposes of offering discounted travel fares to verified eligible cardholders:
1) Child 16-18 leap card;
2) Student leap card; and
3) A third card type, young adult leap card that may be introduced during the lifetime of the contract.
The contract is for the establishment and operation of an online and national over the counter sales network for such cards. The authority will supply the successful tenderer with branded, numbered pre-printed leap cards, for over-printing and further electronic configuration by the successful tenderer with personalisation details. The successful tenderer shall be responsible for all other activities associated with the sale and distribution of the cards.
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Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice
Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable
Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2020-05-11 📅
Publication date: 2020-05-14 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2020/S 094-224897
Refers to notice: 2018/S 204-465324
OJ-S issue: 94
Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
The authority intends to award a contract to a service provider to provide three different types of personalised leap cards for the purposes of offering discounted travel fares to verified eligible cardholders:
1) Child 16-18 leap card;
2) Student leap card; and
3) A third card type, young adult leap card that may be introduced during the lifetime of the contract.
The contract is for the establishment and operation of an online and national over the counter sales network for such cards. The authority will supply the successful tenderer with branded, numbered pre-printed leap cards, for over-printing and further electronic configuration by the successful tenderer with personalisation details. The successful tenderer shall be responsible for all other activities associated with the sale and distribution of the cards.
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The authority intends to award a contract to a service provider to provide three different types of personalised Leap Cards for the purposes of offering discounted travel fares to verified eligible cardholders:
Main site or place of performance: IRELAND.
Procedure
Award criteria
Quality criterion (name): Initial services plan
Quality criterion (weighting): 5
Quality criterion (name): Operations plan
Quality criterion (weighting): 45
Quality criterion (name): System design plan
Quality criterion (weighting): 15
Quality criterion (name): Quality and performance management plan
Price (weighting): 30
Award of contract
Date of contract conclusion: 2020-04-09 📅
Name: Credit Card Systems Ireland Ltd
National registration number: IE9Y641301
Postal address: Coolmine Ind Est, Clonsilla
Postal town: Dublin 15
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 16404200 📞
E-mail: paulc@fimak.com 📧
Country: Dublin 🏙️
Internet address: http://www.ccsireland.ie 🌏
Total value of the procurement: 10 957 000 EUR 💰
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 3
Complementary information
Review body
Information about review deadlines:
As set out in S.I. No 131/2010 European Communities (Award of Contracts by Utilities Undertakings) (Review Procedures) Regulations 2010 (in particular Regulation 7 thereof).
Source: OJS 2020/S 094-224897 (2020-05-11)
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