Lot 1: The management of payroll and personal income tax compliance for ESB expatriate employees on international assignments:
Service required to manage payroll and personal income tax (PIT) compliance in the jurisdictions where ESB expatriate employees have been assigned to international locations for short and/or long-term durations.
Lot 2: Immigration Services
The provision of end to end appropriate visa, work permits, and other immigration services as required.
Deadline
The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2019-05-08.
The procurement was published on 2019-04-05.
Object Scope of the procurement
Title: International Payroll and Personnel Services (including Immigration)
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Products/services: Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security📦
Short description:
“Lot 1: The management of payroll and personal income tax compliance for ESB expatriate employees on international assignments:
Service required to manage...”
Short description
Lot 1: The management of payroll and personal income tax compliance for ESB expatriate employees on international assignments:
Service required to manage payroll and personal income tax (PIT) compliance in the jurisdictions where ESB expatriate employees have been assigned to international locations for short and/or long-term durations.
Lot 2: Immigration Services
The provision of end to end appropriate visa, work permits, and other immigration services as required.
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Tenders may be submitted for all lots
1️⃣ Scope of the procurement
Title:
“Management of Payroll and Personal Income Tax Compliance for International Assignments” Title
Lot Identification Number: 1
Description
Additional products/services: Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security📦
Additional products/services: Tax consultancy services📦
Additional products/services: Personnel and payroll services📦
Place of performance: Éire/Ireland🏙️
Description of the procurement:
“Provide advise for all aspects of foreign PIT liability and/or exemptions. Register and deregister ESB subsidiary company/branch as employer in host...”
Description of the procurement
Provide advise for all aspects of foreign PIT liability and/or exemptions. Register and deregister ESB subsidiary company/branch as employer in host jurisdiction as required and register and deregister the individual employees’ for personal income tax and social security payments in host jurisdictions:
— set up/advise on pension payment/deductions in host country, and handle pension instructions on branch/company closure,
— produce and issue shadow payslips where required,
— to complete annual home and host personal annual tax returns as required.
Show more 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: 36
Information about the limits on the number of candidates to be invited
Envisaged number of candidates: 6
Information about options
Options ✅
Description of options:
“ESB reserves the right to extend the framework for 2 years and again by a further 2 years (potential total extension is 4 years).” Description
Additional information:
“Applicants will be assessed on the quality of their responses to the criteria and rules outlined in the PQQ and a maximum of the top scoring 6 applicants...”
Additional information
Applicants will be assessed on the quality of their responses to the criteria and rules outlined in the PQQ and a maximum of the top scoring 6 applicants will be invited to tender for Lot 1, subject to that number qualifying. Please consult the associated document which contains full instructions re submission of tenders and is available to download from http://www.etenders.gov.ie/ using RFT 146397
2️⃣ Scope of the procurement
Title: Management of Immigration Services
Title
Lot Identification Number: 2
Description
Additional products/services: Business travel services📦
Description of the procurement:
“The provision of end to end appropriate visa, work permits, and other immigration services as required for staff working abroad.”
Additional information:
“Applicants will be assessed on the quality of their responses to the criteria and rules outlined in the PQQ and a maximum of the top scoring 6 applicants...”
Additional information
Applicants will be assessed on the quality of their responses to the criteria and rules outlined in the PQQ and a maximum of the top scoring 6 applicants will be invited to tender for Lot 2, subject to that number qualifying. Please consult the associated document which contains full instructions re submission of tenders and is available to download from http://www.etenders.gov.ie/ using RFT 146397
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 146397” 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 146397” 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 146397” 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, it will be a requirement of ESB that 1 member of the group accepts full contractual responsibility...”
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, it will be a requirement of ESB that 1 member of the group accepts full contractual responsibility for the delivery of the service. Where appropriate, the intended contractually responsible member of any grouping or consortium must be identified in the response 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 several operators
Description
Envisaged maximum number of participants to the framework agreement: 2
Administrative information
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 2019-05-08
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Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Complementary information Additional information
“Section IV.1.3) above refers.
Envisaged maximum number of participants to the Framework Agreement:
— for Lot 1 envisaged number is 1 participant subject to...”
Section IV.1.3) above refers.
Envisaged maximum number of participants to the Framework Agreement:
— for Lot 1 envisaged number is 1 participant subject to that number qualifying,
— for Lot 2 envisaged number is 1 participant subject to that number qualifying.
1) It is our intention to use the Irish Government Procurement portal (www.etenders.gov.ie) for this competition. Access to this portal is free of charge. Interested parties must formally register their expression of interest for this competition on eTenders before they can gain access to the PQQ documentation. All information relating to and including the pre-qualification documents, any clarifications and changes will be issued/published via this portal. 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 contract one or more of the tenderers invited following the conclusion of this competitive process, or having awarded a contract under the contract, the contracting entity reserves the right to invite the next highest scoring tenderer to join the contract and/or deliver the contract as appropriate to the circumstances pertaining to the said contract.
7) At its absolute discretion, the contracting entity may elect to terminate this procurement process, the contract at any time.
8) 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.
Show more Review body
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 071-169013 (2019-04-05)