Framework for the Provision of Private Cloud Infrastructure and Services including HPC, Load Balancers and Extending to Public Cloud Services

Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin

Trinity College Dublin intend to establish a Framework Agreement (FWA) for the provision of private cloud infrastructure and services including HPC, Load Balancers and extending to public cloud services. The lot structure is as follows:
Lot 1: IaaS Integrator and Technology Partner;
Lot 2: Research Computing: HPC Clusters and storage;
Lot 3: HPC Cloud Specialist;
Lot 4: Load Balancers.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2021-01-13. The procurement was published on 2020-12-09.

Suppliers

The following suppliers are mentioned in award decisions or other procurement documents:

• CANCOM Ireland Ltd.
• Dell Products
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise Ireland Limited
• Integrity 360
• OCF Ltd

Who?

• Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin

What?

• Computer storage units › Direct-access storage devices (DASD)
• Computer storage units › Flash memory storage devices
• Computer storage units › Magnetic disk storage units
• Hardware consultancy services › Computer audit consultancy and hardware consultancy services
• IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support › Computer support and consultancy services
• Network equipment › Network cabling
• Network equipment › Network infrastructure
• Servers › Computer servers
• Servers › Network servers
• Software programming and consultancy services › Systems and technical consultancy services

Where?

• Eastern and Midland › Dublin

Procurement history

Date	Document
2020-12-09	Contract notice
2020-12-18	Additional information
2021-11-29	Contract award notice

Contract notice (2020-12-09)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Systems and technical consultancy services
Reference number: TCD-20-02
Short description:

Trinity College Dublin intend to establish a Framework Agreement (FWA) for the provision of private cloud infrastructure and services including HPC, Load Balancers and extending to public cloud services. The lot structure is as follows: Lot 1: IaaS Integrator and Technology Partner; Lot 2: Research Computing: HPC Clusters and storage; Lot 3: HPC Cloud Specialist; Lot 4: Load Balancers.

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: Systems and technical consultancy services 📦
Additional CPV: Information systems and servers 📦
Place of performance
NUTS region: Dublin 🏙️

Procedure
Procedure type: Restricted procedure
Type of bid: Submission for all lots
Award criteria
The most economic tender

Contracting authority
Identity
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Awarding authority type: Body governed by public law
Awarding authority name: Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin
Postal address: College Green, Co. Dublin
Postal town: Dublin 2
Contact
Internet address: http://www.tcd.ie 🌏
E-mail: ryank8@tcd.ie 📧
Phone: +353 18962376 📞
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=179670&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
URL for participation: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=179670&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2020-12-09 📅
Submission deadline: 2021-01-13 📅
Publication date: 2020-12-14 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2020/S 243-601810
OJ-S issue: 243
Additional information

1) Interested parties must register their interest on the eTenders website (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 authority will not accept responsibility for information relayed (or not relayed) via third parties; 2) Suppliers must register their interest on the eTenders website (www.etenders.gov.ie) in order to be included on the mailing list for clarifications and to respond electronically to the competition. There is a maximum upload limit of 2GB per document on etenders. Documents larger than this should be divided into smaller files prior to upload or zipped; 3) Should you experience difficulty when uploading documents please contact the eTenders Support Desk for technical assistance. Email etenders@eu-supply.com or Telephone 353(0)212439277 (09.00 a.m. — 17.30 p.m. GMT); 4) All queries regarding this tender requirement or process must be submitted through the Irish Government Procurement Opportunities Portal www.etenders.gov.ie (RFT ID 181647) as a specific question. Responses will be circulated to those tenderers that have registered an interest in this notice on www.etenders.gov.ie The details of the person making a query will not be disclosed when circulating the response; 5) This is the sole call for competition for the contract under each lot; 6) The contracting authority will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates or tenderers; 7) Contract award will be subject to the approval of the competent authorities; 8) It will be a condition of award that the successful tenderer is and remains tax compliant; 9) At its absolute discretion, the contracting authority may elect to terminate this procurement process, or any lot, or any contract; awarded or prior to award at any time; 10) 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; 11) Without prejudice to the principle of equal treatment, the contracting authority is not obliged to engage in a clarification process in respect of the procurement documents with missing or incomplete information. Therefore, respondents are advised to ensure that they return completed documentation in order to avoid the risk of elimination from the competition; 12) At Section II.2.9) for each lot we have indicated that 5 will be invited to tender for each lot, please note that the contracting authority reserves the right to invite at least 5, subject to the number qualifying. 13)For the avoidance of doubt, applicants who intend to submit a response to both lots must do so by submitting a separate response under separate cover to the tenderbox under each lot they are applying for. Applicants submitting a single response only must submit to the tenderbox under the specific lot to which they are applying, the contracting authority cannot be held responsible for errors encountered when submitting responses or responses submitted under the incorrect lot.

Additional information

1) Interested parties must register their interest on the eTenders website (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 authority will not accept responsibility for information relayed (or not relayed) via third parties;

2) Suppliers must register their interest on the eTenders website (www.etenders.gov.ie) in order to be included on the mailing list for clarifications and to respond electronically to the competition. There is a maximum upload limit of 2GB per document on etenders. Documents larger than this should be divided into smaller files prior to upload or zipped;

3) Should you experience difficulty when uploading documents please contact the eTenders Support Desk for technical assistance. Email etenders@eu-supply.com or Telephone 353(0)212439277 (09.00 a.m. — 17.30 p.m. GMT);

4) All queries regarding this tender requirement or process must be submitted through the Irish Government Procurement Opportunities Portal www.etenders.gov.ie (RFT ID 181647) as a specific question. Responses will be circulated to those tenderers that have registered an interest in this notice on www.etenders.gov.ie The details of the person making a query will not be disclosed when circulating the response;

5) This is the sole call for competition for the contract under each lot;

6) The contracting authority will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates or tenderers;

7) Contract award will be subject to the approval of the competent authorities;

8) It will be a condition of award that the successful tenderer is and remains tax compliant;

9) At its absolute discretion, the contracting authority may elect to terminate this procurement process, or any lot, or any contract; awarded or prior to award at any time;

10) 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;

11) Without prejudice to the principle of equal treatment, the contracting authority is not obliged to engage in a clarification process in respect of the procurement documents with missing or incomplete information. Therefore, respondents are advised to ensure that they return completed documentation in order to avoid the risk of elimination from the competition;

12) At Section II.2.9) for each lot we have indicated that 5 will be invited to tender for each lot, please note that the contracting authority reserves the right to invite at least 5, subject to the number qualifying.

13)For the avoidance of doubt, applicants who intend to submit a response to both lots must do so by submitting a separate response under separate cover to the tenderbox under each lot they are applying for. Applicants submitting a single response only must submit to the tenderbox under the specific lot to which they are applying, the contracting authority cannot be held responsible for errors encountered when submitting responses or responses submitted under the incorrect lot.

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

Lot 1: IaaS Integrator and Technology Partner;

Lot 2: Research Computing: HPC Clusters and storage;

Lot 3: HPC Cloud Specialist;

Lot 4: Load Balancers.

Estimated total value: 5 000 000 EUR 💰
Title of the lot: IaaS Integrator and Technology Partner
Lot number: 1
Short description:

Trinity’s current private cloud infrastructure and related services, V+C+E contract, is end of life with some hardware approaching end of service life and must be considered for replacement with a compliant, converged infrastructure solution to maintain the current footprint of on prem hosted services. Lot 1 of the proposed Framework will be used to draw down hardware and services as required over the 4 year period. Contracts activated from the FWA may therefore extend beyond the 4 year period but all contracts will terminate within 7 years of the award of the FWA.

As part of this tender process, Trinity are seeking a single integrator and technology partner who can manage scaling technologies and provide goods and services. This will include, but not limited to, expertise, experience, support, direction and augmentation to the IaaS Platform from overall design, implementation, compliancy, software orchestration and virtualisation technologies. The integrator must have the highest available OEM certifications for each element of the solution and deliver the highest quality of service.

Estimated value excluding VAT: 4 500 000 EUR 💰
Duration: 48 months
Title of the lot: Research Computing: HPC Clusters and Storage
Lot number: 2
Short description:

High Performance Computing clusters in Trinity College are supported by the Trinity RIT Team. A maximum of three (3) vendors will be appointed to the framework to meet the requirements of Lot 2. This will include HPC appropriate hardware to support on-prem HPC clusters with a high speed interconnect and separate management network. A cluster will generally access a low latency high performance parallel filesystem. A cluster will be heterogeneous in sense that the majority of compute nodes will be multicore but the cluster is expected to also contain GPU nodes. A cluster must be extensible via hardware drawdown over the life of the framework. A cluster will be located in one of TCDs two on-campus data centres.

Estimated value excluding VAT: 300 000 EUR 💰
Title of the lot: HPC Cloud Specialist
Lot number: 3
Short description:

High Performance Computing clusters in Trinity College are supported by the Trinity RIT Team. A maximum of three (3) vendors will be appointed to the framework to meet the requirements of Lot 3 which seeks advisory services for optimisation of HPC resources in the public cloud. Trinity can avail of a GÉANT purchasing agreement to source Cloud based IaaS infrastructure. This Lot 3 seeks suitably qualified HPC integrator/specialists to provide the support, implementation and configuration services.

Estimated value excluding VAT: 100 000 EUR 💰
Title of the lot: Load Balancers
Lot number: 4
Short description:

The existing external load balancers at Trinity will need to be replaced to provide an equivalent or improved service by October 2021. The internal load balancers will need to be replaced by August 2022 assuming the current capacity in the appliances is sufficient up to this point. As part of this tender, Trinity are seeking a load balancing technology partner for the framework term (4 years) who can manage scaling technologies and provide goods and services. This will include, but not limited to, expertise, experience, direction and augmentation to the load balancer technology from overall design, implementation, compliancy, software orchestration. Applicants must have the highest available level of OEM certifications to deliver the highest quality of service.

Procedure
Legal basis: 32014L0024
Envisaged number of candidates: 5
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates:

For each lot, the PQQ documentation confirms that 5…

… Applicants will be invited to tender for each lot, subject to the number qualifying.

… applicants will be invited to tender for each lot, subject to the number qualifying.

Number of participants to be contemplated: 8
Time of receipt of tenders: 12:00
Date of dispatch of invitations: 2021-02-16 📅
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Tender validity period: 48 months

Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: 2200007u
Contact
Contact point: Kevin Ryan
Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/336 🌏
Documents URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=179670&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏

Reference
Additional information

2) Suppliers must register their interest on the eTenders website (www.etenders.gov.ie) in order to be included on the mailing list for clarifications and to respond electronically to the competition. There is a maximum upload limit of 2GB per document on etenders. Documents larger than this should be divided into smaller files prior to upload or zipped;

3) Should you experience difficulty when uploading documents please contact the eTenders Support Desk for technical assistance. Email etenders@eu-supply.com or Telephone 353(0)212439277 (09.00 a.m. — 17.30 p.m. GMT);

4) All queries regarding this tender requirement or process must be submitted through the Irish Government Procurement Opportunities Portal www.etenders.gov.ie (RFT ID 181647) as a specific question. Responses will be circulated to those tenderers that have registered an interest in this notice on www.etenders.gov.ie The details of the person making a query will not be disclosed when circulating the response;

5) This is the sole call for competition for the contract under each lot;

6) The contracting authority will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates or tenderers;

7) Contract award will be subject to the approval of the competent authorities;

8) It will be a condition of award that the successful tenderer is and remains tax compliant;

9) At its absolute discretion, the contracting authority may elect to terminate this procurement process, or any lot, or any contract; awarded or prior to award at any time;

10) 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;

11) Without prejudice to the principle of equal treatment, the contracting authority is not obliged to engage in a clarification process in respect of the procurement documents with missing or incomplete information. Therefore, respondents are advised to ensure that they return completed documentation in order to avoid the risk of elimination from the competition;

12) At Section II.2.9) for each lot we have indicated that 5 will be invited to tender for each lot, please note that the contracting authority reserves the right to invite at least 5, subject to the number qualifying.

13)For the avoidance of doubt, applicants who intend to submit a response to both lots must do so by submitting a separate response under separate cover to the tenderbox under each lot they are applying for. Applicants submitting a single response only must submit to the tenderbox under the specific lot to which they are applying, the contracting authority cannot be held responsible for errors encountered when submitting responses or responses submitted under the incorrect lot.

Complementary information
Review body
Name: High Court
Postal address: Four Courts, Inns Quay
Postal town: Dublin 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Source: OJS 2020/S 243-601810 (2020-12-09)

Additional information (2020-12-18)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

Trinity College Dublin intend to establish a Framework Agreement (FWA) for the provision of private cloud infrastructure and services including HPC, Load Balancers and extending to public cloud services. The lot structure is as follows: Lot 1: IaaS Integrator and Technology Partner; Lot 2: Research Computing: HPC Clusters and storage; LOT 3: HPC Cloud Specialist; Lot 4: Load Balancers.

Notice metadata
Document type: Additional information
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Flash memory storage devices 📦

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2020-12-18 📅
Submission deadline: 2021-01-20 📅
Publication date: 2020-12-23 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2020/S 250-625890
Refers to notice: 2020/S 243-601810
OJ-S issue: 250
Additional information
Deadline has been extended to 20 January 2021

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description: LOT 3: HPC Cloud Specialist;
Source: OJS 2020/S 250-625890 (2020-12-18)

Contract award notice (2021-11-29)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

Trinity College Dublin intend to establish a Framework Agreement (FWA) for the provision of Private Cloud Infrastructure & Services including HPC, Load Balancers and extending to Public Cloud Services. The Lot structure is as follows: LOT 1: IaaS Integrator and Technology Partner LOT 2: Research Computing: HPC Clusters and storage LOT 3: HPC Cloud Specialist LOT 4: Load Balancers

Total value of the procurement: 5 000 000 EUR 💰
Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice

Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable

Contracting authority
Identity
Postal address: College Green
Postal code: Co. Dublin

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2021-11-29 📅
Publication date: 2021-12-03 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2021/S 235-619064
OJ-S issue: 235
Additional information

1) Interested parties must register their interest on the eTenders website (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 authority will not accept responsibility for information relayed (or not relayed) via third parties; 2) Suppliers must register their interest on the eTenders website (www.etenders.gov.ie) in order to be included on the mailing list for clarifications and to respond electronically to the competition. There is a maximum upload limit of 2GB per document on etenders. Documents larger than this should be divided into smaller files prior to upload or zipped; 3) Should you experience difficulty when uploading documents please contact the eTenders Support Desk for technical assistance. Email etenders@eu-supply.com or Telephone 353(0)212439277 (09.00 a.m. — 17.30 p.m. GMT); 4) All queries regarding this tender requirement or process must be submitted through the Irish Government Procurement Opportunities Portal www.etenders.gov.ie (RFT ID 181647) as a specific question. Responses will be circulated to those tenderers that have registered an interest in this notice on www.etenders.gov.ie The details of the person making a query will not be disclosed when circulating the response; 5) This is the sole call for competition for the contract under each lot; 6) The contracting authority will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates or tenderers; 7) Contract award will be subject to the approval of the competent authorities; 8) It will be a condition of award that the successful tenderer is and remains tax compliant; 9) At its absolute discretion, the contracting authority may elect to terminate this procurement process, or any lot, or any contract; awarded or prior to award at any time; 10) 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; 11) Without prejudice to the principle of equal treatment, the contracting authority is not obliged to engage in a clarification process in respect of the procurement documents with missing or incomplete information. Therefore, respondents are advised to ensure that they return completed documentation in order to avoid the risk of elimination from the competition; 12) At Section II.2.9) for each lot we have indicated that 5 will be invited to tender for each lot, please note that the contracting authority reserves the right to invite at least 5, subject to the number qualifying. 13)For the avoidance of doubt, applicants who intend to submit a response to both lots must do so by submitting a separate response under separate cover to the tenderbox under each lot they are applying for. Applicants submitting a single response only must submit to the tenderbox under the specific lot to which they are applying, the Contracting Authority cannot be held responsible for errors encountered when submitting responses or responses submitted under the incorrect lot.

Additional information

1) Interested parties must register their interest on the eTenders website (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 authority will not accept responsibility for information relayed (or not relayed) via third parties;

2) Suppliers must register their interest on the eTenders website (www.etenders.gov.ie) in order to be included on the mailing list for clarifications and to respond electronically to the competition. There is a maximum upload limit of 2GB per document on etenders. Documents larger than this should be divided into smaller files prior to upload or zipped;

3) Should you experience difficulty when uploading documents please contact the eTenders Support Desk for technical assistance. Email etenders@eu-supply.com or Telephone 353(0)212439277 (09.00 a.m. — 17.30 p.m. GMT);

4) All queries regarding this tender requirement or process must be submitted through the Irish Government Procurement Opportunities Portal www.etenders.gov.ie (RFT ID 181647) as a specific question. Responses will be circulated to those tenderers that have registered an interest in this notice on www.etenders.gov.ie The details of the person making a query will not be disclosed when circulating the response;

5) This is the sole call for competition for the contract under each lot;

6) The contracting authority will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates or tenderers;

7) Contract award will be subject to the approval of the competent authorities;

8) It will be a condition of award that the successful tenderer is and remains tax compliant;

9) At its absolute discretion, the contracting authority may elect to terminate this procurement process, or any lot, or any contract; awarded or prior to award at any time;

10) 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;

11) Without prejudice to the principle of equal treatment, the contracting authority is not obliged to engage in a clarification process in respect of the procurement documents with missing or incomplete information. Therefore, respondents are advised to ensure that they return completed documentation in order to avoid the risk of elimination from the competition;

12) At Section II.2.9) for each lot we have indicated that 5 will be invited to tender for each lot, please note that the contracting authority reserves the right to invite at least 5, subject to the number qualifying.

13)For the avoidance of doubt, applicants who intend to submit a response to both lots must do so by submitting a separate response under separate cover to the tenderbox under each lot they are applying for. Applicants submitting a single response only must submit to the tenderbox under the specific lot to which they are applying, the Contracting Authority cannot be held responsible for errors encountered when submitting responses or responses submitted under the incorrect lot.

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

LOT 1: IaaS Integrator and Technology Partner

LOT 2: Research Computing: HPC Clusters and storage

LOT 3: HPC Cloud Specialist

LOT 4: Load Balancers

Trinity’s current Private Cloud Infrastructure and Related Services, V+C+E contract, is end of life with some hardware approaching end of service life and must be considered for replacement with a compliant, converged infrastructure solution to maintain the current footprint of on prem hosted services. Lot 1 of the proposed Framework will be used to draw down hardware and services as required over the 4 year period. Contracts activated from the FWA may therefore extend beyond the 4 year period but all contracts will terminate within 7 years of the award of the FWA.

Title of the lot: Research Computing: HPC Clusters and storage
Short description:

High Performance Computing clusters in Trinity College are supported by the Trinity RIT Team.…

… A maximum of three (3) vendors will be appointed to the Framework to meet the requirements of Lot 2. This will include HPC appropriate hardware to support on-prem HPC clusters with a high speed interconnect and separate management network. A cluster will generally access a low latency high performance parallel filesystem. A cluster will be heterogeneous in sense that the majority of compute nodes will be multicore but the cluster is expected to also contain GPU nodes. A cluster must be extensible via hardware drawdown over the life of the framework. A cluster will be located in one of TCDs two on-campus data centres.

… A maximum of three (3) vendors will be appointed to the Framework to meet the requirements of Lot 3 which seeks advisory services for optimisation of HPC resources in the public cloud. Trinity can avail of a GÉANT purchasing agreement to source Cloud based IaaS infrastructure. This Lot 3 seeks suitably qualified HPC integrator/specialists to provide the support, implementation and configuration services.

The existing external load balancers at Trinity will need to be replaced to provide an equivalent or improved service by October 2021. The internal load balancers will need to be replaced by August 2022 assuming the current capacity in the appliances is sufficient up to this point. As part of this tender, Trinity are seeking a load balancing technology partner for the Framework term (4 years) who can manage scaling technologies and provide goods and services. This will include, but not limited to, expertise, experience, direction and augmentation to the load balancer technology from overall design, implementation, compliancy, software orchestration. Applicants must have the highest available level of OEM certifications to deliver the highest quality of service.

Place of performance
Main site or place of performance: Dublin

Procedure
Award criteria
Quality criterion (name): Technical Quality of Converged Infrastructure
Quality criterion (weighting): 25%
Quality criterion (name): Technical Integration & System Implementation
Quality criterion (weighting): 10%
Quality criterion (name): Integrated Partner
Quality criterion (weighting): 15%
Quality criterion (name): Data Centre Switching
Quality criterion (weighting): 5%
Quality criterion (name): Data Protection & Recovery Technology
Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Plan
Security On Prem - East to West Solution
Price (weighting): 30%
Quality criterion (name): Compute
Quality criterion (weighting): 30%
Quality criterion (name): Storage
Quality criterion (weighting): 14%
Quality criterion (name): interconnect
Quality criterion (weighting): 16%
Quality criterion (name): Support & Assembly
Quality
Quality criterion (weighting): 100%
Price (weighting): 0
Quality criterion (name): Load Balancer Product Evaluation
Quality criterion (weighting): 24%
Quality criterion (name): Web Application Firewall
Quality criterion (weighting): 6%
Quality criterion (name): Service Evaluation Criteria
Price (weighting): 40%

Award of contract
Date of contract conclusion: 2021-09-30 📅
Name: CANCOM Ireland Ltd.
National registration number: NI028408
Postal address: 31-36 Ormond Building, Ormond Quay Upper
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: Dublin 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 014198000 📞
E-mail: andrew.knight@cancom.co.uk 📧
Country: Dublin 🏙️
Internet address: http://www.cancom.ie 🌏
Total value of the procurement: 4 500 000 EUR 💰
Date of contract conclusion: 2021-09-29 📅
Name: Dell Products
National registration number: IE6591034U
Postal address: Innovation House, Science and Technology Park,
Postal code: Cherrywood
Phone: +353 12045741 📞
E-mail: iedub_public_contracts@dell.com 📧
Internet address: http://www.dell.ie 🌏
Total value of the procurement: 300 000 EUR 💰
Date of contract conclusion: 2021-09-28 📅
Name: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Ireland Limited
National registration number: IE 3334222LH
Postal address: Liffey Park Technology Campus
Postal town: Leixlip, Co Kildare
Postal code: Barnhall Road
Phone: +353 15684104 📞
E-mail: rose.heverin@hpe.com 📧
Date of contract conclusion: 2021-10-08 📅
Name: OCF Ltd
National registration number: 4132533
Postal address: Rotunda Business Centre
Postal town: Sheffield
Postal code: South Yorkshire
Country: United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Phone: +44 01142572204 📞
E-mail: intend@ocf.co.uk 📧
Country: Sheffield 🏙️
Internet address: http://www.ocf.co.uk 🌏
Total value of the procurement: 100 000 EUR 💰
Date of contract conclusion: 2021-10-26 📅
Name: Integrity 360
Postal address: 3rd Floor, Block D, The Concourse, Beacon Court
Postal town: Sandyford
Postal code: D18 P6N4
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 5
4
2
3

Reference
Additional information

13)For the avoidance of doubt, applicants who intend to submit a response to both lots must do so by submitting a separate response under separate cover to the tenderbox under each lot they are applying for. Applicants submitting a single response only must submit to the tenderbox under the specific lot to which they are applying, the Contracting Authority cannot be held responsible for errors encountered when submitting responses or responses submitted under the incorrect lot.

Complementary information
Review body
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: Dublin 7
Source: OJS 2021/S 235-619064 (2021-11-29)

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