This contract is for business continuity services for ESB to accommodate staff at Dublin, Cork, and Belfast. ESB is inviting pre-qualification applications from suitably qualified interested parties with experience of providing these services and with available existing premises in Dublin, Cork, and Belfast.
Deadline
The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2019-07-01.
The procurement was published on 2019-05-31.
Suppliers
The following suppliers are mentioned in award decisions or other procurement documents:
Object Scope of the procurement
Title: Business Continuity Services
SSCON4423
Products/services: Crisis management services📦
Short description:
“This contract is for business continuity services for ESB to accommodate staff at Dublin, Cork, and Belfast. ESB is inviting pre-qualification applications...”
Short description
This contract is for business continuity services for ESB to accommodate staff at Dublin, Cork, and Belfast. ESB is inviting pre-qualification applications from suitably qualified interested parties with experience of providing these services and with available existing premises in Dublin, Cork, and Belfast.
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Tenders may be submitted for all lots
Scope of the procurement
The contracting authority reserves the right to award contracts combining the following lots or groups of lots:
“Applicants may apply for lot 1, lot 2, lot 3, or for all lots. Applicants must state in their application which lots are being applied for, and if the...”
The contracting authority reserves the right to award contracts combining the following lots or groups of lots
Applicants may apply for lot 1, lot 2, lot 3, or for all lots. Applicants must state in their application which lots are being applied for, and if the applicant is applying for more than one lot 2 separate references should be given for each lot applied for.
1️⃣ Scope of the procurement
Title: Business Continuity Services at Dublin
Title
Lot Identification Number: 1
Description
Additional products/services: Crisis management services📦
Additional products/services: Disaster recovery services📦
Place of performance: Éire/Ireland🏙️
Main site or place of performance: Dublin
Description of the procurement:
“At this point it is envisaged that the requirement in Dublin will be to accommodate in the range of between 230 to 300 seats.” Award criteria
Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
The time frame below is expressed in number of months.
Description
Duration: 48
Information about the limits on the number of candidates to be invited
Envisaged minimum number: 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...”
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.
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Options ✅
Description of options:
“The duration of the Framework Agreements will be for 4 years each with an option for ESB to extend for up to a additional further 3 years in one of more increments.”
Description of options
The duration of the Framework Agreements will be for 4 years each with an option for ESB to extend for up to a additional further 3 years in one of more increments.
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Additional information:
“Please refer to the individual instructions for submission of bids relevant to each tender issued via the system.”
2️⃣ Scope of the procurement
Title: Business Continuity Services at Cork
Title
Lot Identification Number: 2
Description
Main site or place of performance: Cork
Description of the procurement:
“At this point it is envisaged that the requirement in Cork will be to accommodate in the range of 200 seats.” Information about options
Description of options:
“The duration of the Framework Agreements will be for 4 years each with an option for ESB to extend for up to an additional further 3 years in one of more increments.”
Description of options
The duration of the Framework Agreements will be for 4 years each with an option for ESB to extend for up to an additional further 3 years in one of more increments.
3️⃣ Scope of the procurement
Title: Business Continuity Services at Belfast
Title
Lot Identification Number: 3
Description
Main site or place of performance: Belfast
Description of the procurement:
“At this point it is envisaged that the requirement in Belfast will be to accommodate 25 seats.”
Legal, economic, financial and technical information Conditions for participation
List and brief description of conditions:
“As stated in Procurement Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID xxxxxx” Economic and financial standing
List and brief description of selection criteria:
“As stated in Procurement Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID xxxxxx” Technical and professional ability
List and brief description of selection criteria:
“As stated in Procurement Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID xxxxxx” Conditions for participation
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...”
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 Type of procedure
Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system
Framework agreement with a single operator
Information about reduction of the number of solutions or tenders during negotiation or dialogue
Recourse to staged procedure to gradually reduce the number of solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiated
Administrative information
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 2019-07-01
12:00 📅
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Complementary information Information about electronic workflows
Electronic ordering will be used
Electronic invoicing will be accepted
Electronic payment will be used
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...”
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.
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Name: Chief Registrar
Postal address: Four Courts, Inns Quay
Postal town: Dublin 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 18886000📞
URL: http://www.courts.ie🌏
Source: OJS 2019/S 106-260120 (2019-05-31)
Contract award notice (2020-10-06) Contracting authority Name and addresses
Postal address: 2 Gateway, East Wall Road
Contact person: Peter Coughlan
E-mail: peter.coughlan@esb.ie📧 Information about joint procurement
The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body
Object Scope of the procurement
Short description:
“This contract is for business continuity services for ESB to accommodate staff at Dublin, Cork, and Belfast.” Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots ✅ Description
Main site or place of performance: Dublin.
Description of the procurement:
“Requirement in Dublin will be to accommodate in the range of between 230 to 300 seats.” Information about options
Description of options:
“The duration of the framework agreements will be for 4 years each with an option for ESB to extend for up to a additional further 3 years in one of more increments.”
Description of options
The duration of the framework agreements will be for 4 years each with an option for ESB to extend for up to a additional further 3 years in one of more increments.
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Main site or place of performance: Cork.
Description of the procurement: Requirement in Cork will be to accommodate in the range of 200 seats.
Information about options
Description of options:
“The duration of the framework agreements will be for 4 years each with an option for ESB to extend for up to an additional further 3 years in one of more increments.”
Description of options
The duration of the framework agreements will be for 4 years each with an option for ESB to extend for up to an additional further 3 years in one of more increments.
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Place of performance: Northern Ireland 🏙️
Main site or place of performance: Belfast.
Description of the procurement: Requirement in Belfast will be to accommodate 25 seats.
Procedure Information about framework agreement
The procurement involves the establishment of a framework agreement
Administrative information
Previous publication concerning this procedure: 2019/S 106-260120
Information about termination of call for competition in the form of a prior information notice
The contracting authority will not award any further contracts based on the above prior information notice
Award of contract
1️⃣
Contract Number: 1
Title: Business Continuity Services at Dublin
Date of conclusion of the contract: 2020-09-07 📅
Name and address of the contractor
Name: Ibm
National registration number: N/a
Postal address: Oldbrook house
Postal town: Dublin
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Region: Éire/Ireland🏙️
URL: http://www.ibm.com/ie/en/🌏
The contractor is an SME
2️⃣
Contract Number: 2
Lot Identification Number: 2
Title: Business Continuity Services at Cork
Date of conclusion of the contract: 2020-09-29 📅
Name and address of the contractor
Name: DXC Technology
National registration number: IE3334222LH
Postal address: Liffey Park Technology Campus
Postal town: Co. Kildare
URL: http://www.dxc.technology🌏
The contractor is an SME ✅
3️⃣
Contract Number: 3
Lot Identification Number: 3
Title: Business Continuity Services at Belfast
Source: OJS 2020/S 197-478257 (2020-10-06)