The Supply and Support of Veritas Netbackup Software and Hardware

Electricity Supply Board (ESB)

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:

Who? What? Where?
Procurement history
Date Document
2019-06-27 Contract notice
2020-04-08 Contract award notice
Contract notice (2019-06-27)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Reference number: SSCON4695
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).
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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: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support 📦
Additional CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support 📦
Place of performance
NUTS region: Dublin 🏙️

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, East Wall Road
Postal town: Dublin 3
Contact
Internet address: http://www.esb.ie 🌏
E-mail: donie.cahalane@esb.ie 📧
Phone: +353 17026157 📞
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=149349&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
URL for participation: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=149349&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2019-06-27 📅
Submission deadline: 2019-07-29 📅
Publication date: 2019-07-02 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2019/S 125-306990
OJ-S issue: 125
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:
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).
— 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 hardware 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.
Duration: 36 months
Description of options: ESB retains the option of extending the contract up to 24 months.
Additional information:
Please refer to the individual instructions for submission of bids relevant to each tender issued via the system.
Place of performance
Main site or place of performance: Dublin

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 153052.
Economic and financial standing:
As stated in Procurement Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 153052.
Technical and professional ability:
As stated in Procurement Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 153052.
Contract execution
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.
Contract performance conditions:
As stated in Procurement Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 153052.

Procedure
Legal basis: 32014L0025
Envisaged number of candidates: 5
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: Donie Cahalane
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=149349&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏

Reference
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 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;
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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;
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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;
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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;
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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.

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 🌏
Body responsible for mediation procedures
Name: Not Applicable
Postal town: Ireland
Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Name: Supplier's own legal advisor
Postal address: 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 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)
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Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice

Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2020-04-08 📅
Publication date: 2020-04-10 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2020/S 072-173220
Refers to notice: 2019/S 125-306990
OJ-S issue: 72

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
— 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)
— 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;
Place of performance
Main site or place of performance: Dublin.

Procedure
Award criteria
Quality criterion (name): Technical
Quality criterion (weighting): 30 %
Price (weighting): 70 %

Award of contract
Date of contract conclusion: 2020-03-24 📅
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 📧
Country: Dublin 🏙️
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 3

Reference
Additional information
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.
Source: OJS 2020/S 072-173220 (2020-04-08)
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