It is proposed that the contract will include (non-exhaustive list – high level scope):
— the supply and management of licences and associated maintenance support for ESB's Veritas NetBackup environment which is running on x86 servers, physical and virtual machines, on premise, in remote offices or in Microsoft’s Azure Cloud,
— netbackup software licences (Capacity and NEVC),
—— support and maintenance of new and existing licences,
— netbackup hardware appliances
—— support and maintenance of new and existing appliances,
— netbackup compatible ATL (LTO 7 Drives).
Deadline
The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2019-07-29.
The procurement was published on 2019-06-27.
Suppliers
The following suppliers are mentioned in award decisions or other procurement documents:
Object Scope of the procurement
Title: The Supply and Support of Veritas Netbackup Software and Hardware
SSCON4695
Products/services: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support📦
Short description:
“It is proposed that the contract will include (non-exhaustive list – high level scope):
— the supply and management of licences and associated maintenance...”
Short description
It is proposed that the contract will include (non-exhaustive list – high level scope):
— the supply and management of licences and associated maintenance support for ESB's Veritas NetBackup environment which is running on x86 servers, physical and virtual machines, on premise, in remote offices or in Microsoft’s Azure Cloud,
— netbackup software licences (Capacity and NEVC),
—— support and maintenance of new and existing licences,
— netbackup hardware appliances
—— support and maintenance of new and existing appliances,
— netbackup compatible ATL (LTO 7 Drives).
It is proposed that the contract will include (non-exhaustive list – high level scope):
— the supply and management of licences and associated maintenance support for ESB's Veritas NetBackup environment which is running on x86 servers, physical and virtual machines, on premise, in Remote offices or in Microsoft’s Azure Cloud.
— netbackup software licences (Capacity and NEVC),
—— support and maintenance of new and existing licences,
— netbackup hardware appliances,
—— support and maintenance of new and existing appliances,
— netbackup compatible ATL (LTO 7 Drives)
ESB currently has approximately 1000+ clients protected by NetBackup, which is likely to increase over the contract period. ESB will indicate the volume ranges in the RFT.
ESB’s licence footprint contains a mix of Capacity (240TB) and NEVC (88 Sockets). The current environment is a mix of NetBackup 5230’s and 5240’s with 2 Oracle StorageTek SL150’s.
Vendors must indicate that they are a registered Veritas Gold Partner or higher for the supply and support of NetBackup.
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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: 5
Information about options
Options ✅
Description of options: ESB retains the option of extending the contract up to 24 months.
Description
Additional information:
“Please refer to the individual instructions for submission of bids relevant to each tender issued via the system.”
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 153052.” 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 153052.” 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 153052.” Conditions for participation
Deposits and guarantees required: Will be set out in the RFT.
Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them: Will be set out in the RFT.
Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
“As stated in Procurement Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 153052.” Conditions related to the contract
Contract performance conditions:
“As stated in Procurement Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 153052.”
Procedure Type of procedure
Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
Administrative information
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 2019-07-29
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 payment will be used
Additional information
“1) It is our intention to use the Irish Government Procurement portal (http://www.etenders.gov.ie/) for this competition. Access to this Portal is free of...”
1) It is our intention to use the Irish Government Procurement portal (http://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, 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 contract;
7) At its absolute discretion, the contracting entity may elect to terminate this procurement process, the contract awarded 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 will be invited to tender, please note that the contracting entity reserves the right to invite at least 5 subject to that number qualifying.
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🌏 Body responsible for mediation procedures
Name: Not Applicable
Postal town: Ireland
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪 Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Name: Supplier's own legal advisor
Postal address: Ireland
Postal town: Ireland
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Source: OJS 2019/S 125-306990 (2019-06-27)
Contract award notice (2020-04-08) Object Scope of the procurement
Short description:
“It is proposed that the contract will include (non-exhaustive list – high level scope):
— the supply and management of licences and associated maintenance...”
Short description
It is proposed that the contract will include (non-exhaustive list – high level scope):
— the supply and management of licences and associated maintenance support for ESB's Veritas NetBackup environment which is running on x86 servers, physical and virtual machines, on premise, in remote offices or in Microsoft’s Azure Cloud
— Netbackup Software Licences (Capacity and NEVC)
— support and maintenance of new and existing licences
— Netbackup Hardware Appliances
— support and maintenance of new and existing appliances
— Netbackup Compatible ATL (LTO 7 Drives)
Show more Description
Main site or place of performance: Dublin.
Description of the procurement:
“It is proposed that the contract will include (non-exhaustive list – high level scope):
— the supply and management of licences and associated maintenance...”
Description of the procurement
It is proposed that the contract will include (non-exhaustive list – high level scope):
— the supply and management of licences and associated maintenance support for ESB's Veritas NetBackup environment which is running on x86 servers, physical and virtual machines, on premise, in Remote offices or in Microsoft’s Azure Cloud;
— Netbackup Software Licences (Capacity and NEVC)
— support and maintenance of new and existing licences
— Netbackup Hardware Appliances
— support and maintenance of new and existing appliances
— Netbackup Compatible ATL (LTO 7 Drives)
ESB currently has approximately 1000+ clients protected by NetBackup, which is likely to increase over the contract period. ESB will indicate the volume ranges in the RFT.
ESB’s licence footprint contains a mix of Capacity (240TB) and NEVC (88 Sockets). The current environment is a mix of NetBackup 5230’s and 5240’s with 2 Oracle StorageTek SL150’s.
Vendors must indicate that they are a registered Veritas Gold Partner or higher for the supply and support of NetBackup.
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Quality criterion (name): Technical
Quality criterion (weighting): 30 %
Price (weighting): 70 %
Procedure Administrative information
Previous publication concerning this procedure: 2019/S 125-306990
Award of contract
1️⃣
Contract Number: 1
Title: The Supply and Support of Veritas Netbackup Software and Hardware
Date of conclusion of the contract: 2020-03-24 📅
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 3
Number of tenders received from SMEs: 3
Number of tenders received from tenderers from other EU Member States: 3
Number of tenders received from tenderers from non-EU Member States: 0
Number of tenders received by electronic means: 3
Name and address of the contractor
Name: Sabeo Technologies Ltd
National registration number: IE6351752M
Postal address: The Courtyard
Postal town: Sandyford
Postal code: Carmanhall Road
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 14064600📞
E-mail: paul.goti@sabeo.com📧
Fax: +353 14064699 📠
Region: Dublin🏙️
The contractor is an SME ✅
Complementary information Additional information
“1) It is our intention to use the Irish Government Procurement portal (http://www.etenders.gov.ie/) for this competition. Access to this Portal is free of...”
1) It is our intention to use the Irish Government Procurement portal (http://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, 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 contract;
7) At its absolute discretion, the contracting entity may elect to terminate this procurement process, the contract awarded 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 will be invited to tender, please note that the contracting entity reserves the right to invite at least 5 subject to that number qualifying.
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Source: OJS 2020/S 072-173220 (2020-04-08)