Development, Maintenance, Support and Improvement Services for the SOLAS Moodle Infrastructure

SOLAS

SOLAS has put in place a federated Moodle infrastructure to meet the VLE (virtual learning environment) needs of the Further Education and Training (FET) sector in Ireland. SOLAS requires services to:
1) monitor, maintain and update the federated Moodle infrastructure, while ensuring continual improvement in performance and usability;
2) design and implement seamless integration solutions to SOLAS and FET systems and maintain existing web services integrations between these systems;
3) provide customisation and reporting solutions to increase the efficiency, usability, reliability and reporting of the usage of the federated Moodle infrastructure;
4) provide efficient, responsive and robust contract management solutions and processes;
5) provide strategic expertise to SOLAS in designing and implementing solutions for online and blended learning across FET using the federated Moodle infrastructure;
6) provide training sessions to ETB users.

Deadline
The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2020-11-06. The procurement was published on 2020-10-06.

Suppliers
The following suppliers are mentioned in award decisions or other procurement documents:
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Procurement history
Date Document
2020-10-06 Contract notice
2021-03-16 Contract award notice
Contract notice (2020-10-06)
Contracting authority
Name and addresses
Name: Solas
National registration number: N/a
Postal address: Castleforbes House, Castleforbes Road
Postal town: Dublin 1
Country: Ireland ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
Contact person: James Hall
Phone: +353 15332416 ๐Ÿ“ž
E-mail: tenders@solas.ie ๐Ÿ“ง
Region: ร‰ire/Ireland ๐Ÿ™๏ธ
URL: http://www.solas.ie/ ๐ŸŒ
Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/1210 ๐ŸŒ
Communication
Access to the procurement documents is restricted
Documents URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=175485&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE ๐ŸŒ
Participation URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=175485&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE ๐ŸŒ

Object
Scope of the procurement
Title:
โ€œDevelopment, Maintenance, Support and Improvement Services for the SOLAS Moodle Infrastructure 177700โ€
Products/services: System and support services ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Short description:
โ€œSOLAS has put in place a federated Moodle infrastructure to meet the VLE (virtual learning environment) needs of the Further Education and Training (FET)...โ€    Show more
Estimated value excluding VAT: EUR 800 000 ๐Ÿ’ฐ

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Additional products/services: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Additional products/services: Software programming and consultancy services ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Additional products/services: Programming services of packaged software products ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Additional products/services: Database and operating software development services ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Additional products/services: Systems and technical consultancy services ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Additional products/services: Systems analysis and programming services ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Additional products/services: Helpdesk and support services ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Place of performance: ร‰ire/Ireland ๐Ÿ™๏ธ
Main site or place of performance: Dublin 1.
Description of the procurement:
โ€œSOLAS has put in place a federated Moodle infrastructure to meet the VLE (virtual learning environment) needs of the Further Education and Training (FET)...โ€    Show more
Award criteria
Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
Scope of the procurement
Estimated total value excluding VAT: EUR 800 000 ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
The time frame below is expressed in number of months.
Description
Duration: 48

Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Economic and financial standing
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
Technical and professional ability
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents

Procedure
Type of procedure
Open procedure
Administrative information
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 2020-11-06 13:00 ๐Ÿ“…
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ
Conditions for opening of tenders: 2020-11-06 13:00 ๐Ÿ“…

Complementary information
Review body
Name: Solas
Postal town: Dublin
Country: Ireland ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
Source: OJS 2020/S 197-476544 (2020-10-06)
Contract award notice (2021-03-16)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
โ€œSOLAS has put in place a federated Moodle infrastructure to meet the VLE (virtual learning environment) needs of the Further Education and Training (FET)...โ€    Show more
Total value of the procurement (excluding VAT): EUR 630 000 ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Description
Description of the procurement:
โ€œSOLAS has put in place a federated Moodle infrastructure to meet the VLE (virtual learning environment) needs of the Further Education and Training (FET)...โ€    Show more
Award criteria
Quality criterion (name): Moodle monitoring and maintenance services
Quality criterion (weighting): 200
Quality criterion (name): Moodle integration services
Quality criterion (name): Customisation and reporting tools
Quality criterion (weighting): 100
Quality criterion (name): Contract management
Quality criterion (weighting): 70
Quality criterion (name): Strategic expertise
Quality criterion (name): Training and information
Quality criterion (weighting): 60
Cost criterion (name): Cost
Cost criterion (weighting): 300

Procedure
Administrative information
Previous publication concerning this procedure: 2020/S 197-476544

Award of contract

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Contract Number: 1
Title:
โ€œDevelopment, Maintenance, Support and Improvement Services for the SOLAS Moodle Infrastructureโ€
Date of conclusion of the contract: 2021-02-28 ๐Ÿ“…
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 2
Number of tenders received by electronic means: 2
Name and address of the contractor
Name: Enovation Solutions
National registration number: 6348876N
Postal address: The Friary, Bow Street
Postal town: Dublin 7
Country: Ireland ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
Region: ร‰ire/Ireland ๐Ÿ™๏ธ
URL: http://www.enovation.ie ๐ŸŒ
The contractor is an SME โœ…
Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Total value of the contract/lot: EUR 632 000 ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Source: OJS 2021/S 055-138886 (2021-03-16)