Multi-Party Framework for the Provision of IT Services

EirGrid plc

The purpose of the pre-qualification questionnaire (PQQ) is to invite qualification applications from interested parties for the provision of ICT services and Professionals under a multi-party supplier framework agreement. This is not a recruitment tender. The resources required will be managed by the successful tenderer and not EirGrid Group.
EirGrid intends to establish a multi-party supplier framework for the provision of these services using the following lots:
Lot 1: Project and Product Management Services;
Lot 2: Infrastructure Operations and Application Support and Development;
Lot 3: Data and Analytics and Data Integration;
Lot 4: Delivery Partners.
Three companies will then be appointed to each lot, subject to the quality of responses received.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2020-04-06. The procurement was published on 2020-03-03.

Suppliers

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

Who?

• EirGrid plc

What?

Where?

• Eastern and Midland › Dublin
• Northern Ireland › Belfast

Procurement history

Date	Document
2020-03-03	Contract notice
2021-01-12	Contract award notice

Contract notice (2020-03-03)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Reference number: ENQEIR708
Short description:

The purpose of the pre-qualification questionnaire (PQQ) is to invite qualification applications from interested parties for the provision of ICT services and Professionals under a multi-party supplier framework agreement. This is not a recruitment tender. The resources required will be managed by the successful tenderer and not EirGrid Group. EirGrid intends to establish a multi-party supplier framework for the provision of these services using the following lots: Lot 1: Project and Product Management Services; Lot 2: Infrastructure Operations and Application Support and Development; Lot 3: Data and Analytics and Data Integration; Lot 4: Delivery Partners. Three companies will then be appointed to each lot, subject to the quality of responses received.

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: Software programming and consultancy services 📦
Place of performance
NUTS region: Belfast 🏙️

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: EirGrid plc
Postal address: Block 2 - The Oval, 160 Shelbourne Road
Postal code: Dublin 4
Postal town: Ballsbridge
Contact
Internet address: http://www.eirgrid.com 🌏
E-mail: paul.valentine@eirgrid.com 📧
Phone: +353 12370200 📞
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=163351&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
URL for participation: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=163351&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2020-03-03 📅
Submission deadline: 2020-04-06 📅
Publication date: 2020-03-06 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2020/S 047-112279
OJ-S issue: 47
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 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 and are in a position to produce a valid tax clearance certificate or eTax Clearance from the Revenue Commissioners when requested. 6) If for any reason it is not possible to award the contract one or more of the tenderers invited following the conclusion of this competitive process, the contracting authority reserves the right to award the contract to the next ranked tenderer as appropriate. 7) At its absolute discretion, the contracting authority may elect to terminate this procurement process or any contract awarded. 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 authority 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.

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 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 and are in a position to produce a valid tax clearance certificate or eTax Clearance from the Revenue Commissioners when requested.

6) If for any reason it is not possible to award the contract one or more of the tenderers invited following the conclusion of this competitive process, the contracting authority reserves the right to award the contract to the next ranked tenderer as appropriate.

7) At its absolute discretion, the contracting authority may elect to terminate this procurement process or any contract awarded.

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 authority 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.

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

EirGrid intends to establish a multi-party supplier framework for the provision of these services using the following lots:

+ 5 more

Lot 1: Project and Product Management Services;
Lot 2: Infrastructure Operations and Application Support and Development;
Lot 3: Data and Analytics and Data Integration;
Lot 4: Delivery Partners.

Three companies will then be appointed to each lot, subject to the quality of responses received.

Estimated total value: 57 000 000 EUR 💰
Title of the lot: Lot 1: Project and Product Management Services
Lot number: 1
Short description: Lot 1: project and product management services

• provision of, but not limited to, the following project and product capabilities:

+ 6 more

— project (waterfall and agile) and product management,
— change management,
— analysis (e.g. system, business and technical),
— governance;

• provision of architectural services (e.g. enterprise, application, business, technical, solution, security, service, functional infrastructure, cloud, data);

• provision of subject matter expertise related to the above capability areas.

Estimated value excluding VAT: 15 000 000 EUR 💰
Duration: 36 months
Description of options:

The initial contract period envisaged is 3 years with the possibility to extend for two terms of an additional two (2) years and a final extension of one (1) year, subject always to the satisfactory performance of the members. The estimated spend of EUR 15 000 000 is taking into account the full duration of the contract including the possible extensions.

Title of the lot: Lot 2: Infrastructure Operations and Application Support
Lot number: 2
Short description: Lot 2: Infrastructure operations and application support

The service types required as part of this lot will include but not be limited to the following Infrastructure capabilities including the ability to take responsibility for specific areas of work over time:

+ 9 more

— 1
— service management,

— server administration (Microsoft and Linux Operating systems and associated toolsets),

— database administration (Microsoft SQL server and Oracle databases and associated toolsets),

— infrastructure environment management (e.g. Backup, Monitoring, VMware, Licence Management, Storage, Equipment installation, Networking),

— cloud adoption, management & support (e.g. Azure/O365, AWS),
— application support,

— end user tool management (end user computing; collaboration tools, audio visual systems management, mobile device management).

Provision of subject matter expertise related to the above capability areas

Estimated value excluding VAT: 18 000 000 EUR 💰
Description of options:

The initial contract period envisaged is 3 years with the possibility to extend for two terms of an additional two (2) years and a final extension of one (1) year, subject always to the satisfactory performance of the members. The estimated spend of EUR 18 000 000 is taking into account the full duration of the contract including the possible extensions.

Title of the lot: Lot 3: Application Development, Data, Analytics and Integration
Lot number: 3
Short description: Lot 3: Application development, data, analytics and integration

The service types required as part of this lot will include but not be limited to:

+ 11 more

— agile delivery,
— application development,
— application packaging and deployment,
— data analysis,
— big data analytics,
— database administration,
— data visualisation and reporting,
— analytics development and support,
— data integrator/connector development and maintenance (Oracle, .NET, REST),
— additional related emerging technologies or methodologies.
Provision of subject matter expertise related to the above capability areas.

Estimated value excluding VAT: 12 000 000 EUR 💰
Description of options:

The initial contract period envisaged is 3 years with the possibility to extend for two terms of an additional two (2) years and a final extension of one (1) year, subject always to the satisfactory performance of the members. The estimated spend of EUR 12 000 000 is taking into account the full duration of the contract including the possible extensions.

Title of the lot: Lot 4: Delivery Partners
Lot number: 4
Short description: Lot 4: Delivery partners

This lot is intended to be used for the end to end delivery of project and product deliverables (which may already be set out in other lots). Successful tenderers will be asked to manage the delivery of the required scope of work as lead vendor. The service types required as part of this lot include, but are not restricted to delivery of the following capabilities:

+ 7 more

— project and product management,
— business analysis,
— test management and test execution,

— integration with EirGrid IT infrastructure, security and application architecture,

— additional related emerging technologies or methodologies;
• provision of subject matter expertise related to the above capability areas;
• provision of Architectural support related to the above capability areas.

Place of performance
Main site or place of performance: Dublin, Belfast.
Dubln, Belfast.

Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
Suitability to pursue the professional activity: