Fully Outsourced End-to-End Grant Application, Evaluation and Payment Processing Service

Fáilte Ireland-National Tourism Development Authority

Fáilte Ireland is the National Tourism Development Authority responsible for the development and support of the tourism sector in the Republic of Ireland. One of the business services that the organisation provides is the delivery of grant schemes to assist businesses across various sectors of tourism industry.
Fáilte Ireland requires a third-party service provider to deliver a fully outsourced end-to-end grants management process including application, evaluation and payment of funds available under various grant schemes.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2021-01-22. The procurement was published on 2020-12-17.

Who? What? Where?
Procurement history
Date Document
2020-12-17 Contract notice
2021-02-12 Contract award notice
Contract notice (2020-12-17)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Financial consultancy services
Reference number: FI/2020/05
Short description:
Fáilte Ireland is the National Tourism Development Authority responsible for the development and support of the tourism sector in the Republic of Ireland. One of the business services that the organisation provides is the delivery of grant schemes to assist businesses across various sectors of tourism industry. Fáilte Ireland requires a third-party service provider to deliver a fully outsourced end-to-end grants management process including application, evaluation and payment of funds available under various grant schemes.
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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: Financial consultancy services 📦
Additional CPV: Financial consultancy, financial transaction processing and clearing-house services 📦
Place of performance
NUTS region: Éire/Ireland 🏙️

Procedure
Procedure type: Open 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: Fáilte Ireland-National Tourism Development Authority
Postal address: 88-95 Amiens Street
Postal town: Dublin 1
Contact
Internet address: https://www.failteireland.ie 🌏
E-mail: glenda.byrne@failteireland.ie 📧
Phone: +353 18847878 📞
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=180249&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
URL for participation: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=180249&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2020-12-17 📅
Submission deadline: 2021-01-22 📅
Publication date: 2020-12-22 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2020/S 249-621189
OJ-S issue: 249
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) This is the sole call for competition for this service. 3) The contracting authority will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates, participants or tenderers. 4) Establishment of the framework will be subject to the approval of the competent authorities. 5) If for any reason it is not possible to conclude the framework agreement with the designated successful tenderer emerging from this competitive process; or if having concluded the framework agreement the contracting authority considers that the successful tenderer has not met, or cannot meet its obligations; the contracting authority reserves the right to admit the next highest scoring tenderer to the framework on the basis of the same terms at any time during the tender validity period. This shall be without prejudice to the right of the contracting authority to cancel this competitive process and/or initiate a new contract award procedure at its sole discretion. 6) At its absolute discretion, the contracting authority may elect to terminate this procurement process, the framework agreement or any contract awarded under the framework agreement at any time. 7) Without prejudice to the principle of equal treatment, the contracting authority is not obliged to engage in a clarification process in respect of tender responses with missing or incomplete information. Therefore, tenderers are advised to ensure that they return fully completed tenders in order to avoid the risk of elimination from the competition at the evaluation stage.
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Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
Fáilte Ireland is the National Tourism Development Authority responsible for the development and support of the tourism sector in the Republic of Ireland. One of the business services that the organisation provides is the delivery of grant schemes to assist businesses across various sectors of tourism industry.
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Fáilte Ireland requires a third-party service provider to deliver a fully outsourced end-to-end grants management process including application, evaluation and payment of funds available under various grant schemes.
Estimated total value: 4 000 000 EUR 💰
Estimated value excluding VAT: 4 000 000 EUR 💰
Duration: 36 months
Description of renewals: Further periods not exceeding 12 months in total (48 months overall).

Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
Suitability to pursue the professional activity:
As stated in the Invitation to Tender document available for downloading from www.etenders.gov.ie
Contract execution
Contract performance conditions:
As stated in the Invitation to Tender document available for downloading from www.etenders.gov.ie

Procedure
Legal basis: 32014L0024
Number of participants to be contemplated: 3
Time of receipt of tenders: 12:00
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Tender validity period: 2022-01-22 📅
Tender opening date: 2021-01-22 📅
Tender opening time: 12:00
Place: www.etenders.gov.ie tender box

Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: N/a
Contact
Contact point: Glenda Byrne
Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/1169 🌏
Documents URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=180249&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏

Reference
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.
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2) This is the sole call for competition for this service.
3) The contracting authority will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates, participants or tenderers.
4) Establishment of the framework will be subject to the approval of the competent authorities.
5) If for any reason it is not possible to conclude the framework agreement with the designated successful tenderer emerging from this competitive process; or if having concluded the framework agreement the contracting authority considers that the successful tenderer has not met, or cannot meet its obligations; the contracting authority reserves the right to admit the next highest scoring tenderer to the framework on the basis of the same terms at any time during the tender validity period. This shall be without prejudice to the right of the contracting authority to cancel this competitive process and/or initiate a new contract award procedure at its sole discretion.
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6) At its absolute discretion, the contracting authority may elect to terminate this procurement process, the framework agreement or any contract awarded under the framework agreement at any time.
7) Without prejudice to the principle of equal treatment, the contracting authority is not obliged to engage in a clarification process in respect of tender responses with missing or incomplete information. Therefore, tenderers are advised to ensure that they return fully completed tenders in order to avoid the risk of elimination from the competition at the evaluation stage.
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Complementary information
Review body
Name: High Court
Postal address: The Four Courts
Postal town: Dublin 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 18886000 📞
Internet address: http://www.courts.ie 🌏
Information about review deadlines:
The contracting authority will not conclude this framework agreement to which a standstill period applies in accordance with Irish Statutory Instrument S.I. No 284 of 2016, until after the expiry of the standstill period which commences on the day following the date of notification of concerned candidates and tenderers. The duration of the standstill period will be 14 calendar days where notifications are sent electronically or by fax and 16 calendar days where these are sent by any other means. The Statutory Instrument mentioned above provides that review procedures are available in the High Court to a person who has or has had an interest in obtaining the framework agreement and alleges that he or she has been harmed or is at risk of being harmed by an infringement of the law in relation to that framework agreement.
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Source: OJS 2020/S 249-621189 (2020-12-17)
Contract award notice (2021-02-12)
Object
Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice

Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable

Contracting authority
Contact
E-mail: procurement@failteireland.ie 📧

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2021-02-12 📅
Publication date: 2021-02-17 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2021/S 033-083022
Refers to notice: 2020/S 249-621189
OJ-S issue: 33
Additional information
1) Interested parties must register their interest on the eTenders web site (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) This is the sole call for competition for this service; 3) The contracting authority will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates, participants or tenderers; 4) Establishment of the framework will be subject to the approval of the competent authorities; 5) If for any reason it is not possible to conclude the framework agreement with the designated successful tenderer emerging from this competitive process; or if having concluded the framework agreement the contracting authority considers that the successful tenderer has not met, or cannot meet its obligations; the contracting authority reserves the right to admit the next highest scoring tenderer to the framework on the basis of the same terms at any time during the tender validity period. This shall be without prejudice to the right of the contracting authority to cancel this competitive process and/or initiate a new contract award procedure at its sole discretion; 6) At its absolute discretion, the contracting authority may elect to terminate this procurement process, the framework agreement or any contract awarded under the framework agreement at any time; 7) Without prejudice to the principle of equal treatment, the contracting authority is not obliged to engage in a clarification process in respect of tender responses with missing or incomplete information. Therefore, tenderers are advised to ensure that they return fully completed tenders in order to avoid the risk of elimination from the competition at the evaluation stage.
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Procedure
Award criteria
Quality criterion (name): Capability
Quality criterion (weighting): 30
Quality criterion (name): Technology system and data governance
Quality criterion (weighting): 10
Quality criterion (name): Account and contract management
Quality criterion (weighting): 20
Cost criterion (name): Ultimate cost
Cost criterion (weighting): 40

Reference
Additional information
1) Interested parties must register their interest on the eTenders web site (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;
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2) This is the sole call for competition for this service;
3) The contracting authority will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates, participants or tenderers;
4) Establishment of the framework will be subject to the approval of the competent authorities;
5) If for any reason it is not possible to conclude the framework agreement with the designated successful tenderer emerging from this competitive process; or if having concluded the framework agreement the contracting authority considers that the successful tenderer has not met, or cannot meet its obligations; the contracting authority reserves the right to admit the next highest scoring tenderer to the framework on the basis of the same terms at any time during the tender validity period. This shall be without prejudice to the right of the contracting authority to cancel this competitive process and/or initiate a new contract award procedure at its sole discretion;
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6) At its absolute discretion, the contracting authority may elect to terminate this procurement process, the framework agreement or any contract awarded under the framework agreement at any time;
Source: OJS 2021/S 033-083022 (2021-02-12)
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