Multi-Party Framework Agreement for Fully Outsourced End to End Grant Application, Evaluation and Payment Processing Service

Fรกilte Ireland-National Tourism Development Authority

Fรกilte 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 development, management and delivery of direct grant schemes to assist businesses across various sectors of tourism industry. Fรกilte 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 2021-04-12. The procurement was published on 2021-03-11.

Suppliers

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

Who? What? Where?
Procurement history
Date Document
2021-03-11 Contract notice
2021-05-21 Contract award notice
Contract notice (2021-03-11)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Financial consultancy, financial transaction processing and clearing-house services
Reference number: FI/2021/02
Short description:
Fรกilte 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 development, management and delivery of direct grant schemes to assist businesses across various sectors of tourism industry. Fรกilte 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 ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Services
Regulation: European Union, with participation of GPA countries
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Financial consultancy, financial transaction processing and clearing-house services ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Additional CPV: Administrative services for business operations ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Place of performance
NUTS region: ร‰ire/Ireland ๐Ÿ™๏ธ

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

Contracting authority
Identity
Country: Ireland ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
Awarding authority type: Body governed by public law
Awarding authority name: Fรกilte Ireland-National Tourism Development Authority
Postal address: 88-95 Amiens Street
Postal town: Dublin 1
Contact
Internet address: https://www.failteireland.ie ๐ŸŒ
E-mail: glenda.byrne@failteireland.ie ๐Ÿ“ง
Phone: +353 18847878 ๐Ÿ“ž
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=184658&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE ๐ŸŒ
URL for participation: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=184658&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE ๐ŸŒ

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2021-03-11 ๐Ÿ“…
Submission deadline: 2021-04-12 ๐Ÿ“…
Publication date: 2021-03-16 ๐Ÿ“…
Identifiers
Notice number: 2021/S 052-131178
OJ-S issue: 52
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
Duration: 48 months

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

Procedure
Legal basis: 32014L0024
Number of participants to be contemplated: 5
Time of receipt of tenders: 12:00
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ
Tender validity period: 2022-04-12 ๐Ÿ“…
Tender opening date: 2021-04-12 ๐Ÿ“…
Tender opening time: 12:00
Place: ETenders postbox.

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 ๐ŸŒ
Documents URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=184658&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE ๐ŸŒ

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 ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
Phone: +353 18886000 ๐Ÿ“ž
Internet address: http://www.courts.ie ๐ŸŒ
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 2021/S 052-131178 (2021-03-11)
Contract award notice (2021-05-21)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Total value of the procurement: 5 000 000 EUR ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice

Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable

Contracting authority
Identity
Postal code: Dublin 1
Contact
E-mail: procurement@failteireland.ie ๐Ÿ“ง

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2021-05-21 ๐Ÿ“…
Publication date: 2021-05-26 ๐Ÿ“…
Identifiers
Notice number: 2021/S 100-264844
Refers to notice: 2021/S 052-131178
OJ-S issue: 100

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

Award of contract
Date of contract conclusion: 2021-05-20 ๐Ÿ“…
Name: Deloitte Ireland LLP
National registration number: 03536140KH
Postal address: Deloitte and Touche
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: Earlsfort Terrace
Country: Ireland ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
Phone: +353 14172200 ๐Ÿ“ž
E-mail: tenders@deloitte.ie ๐Ÿ“ง
Internet address: http://www.deloitte.com/ie ๐ŸŒ
Total value of the procurement: 2 500 000 EUR ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Name: Kosi Corporation Ltd
National registration number: NI602553
Postal address: KOSI House 3 The Old Gasworks Kilmorey Street
Postal town: Newry
Postal code: Down
Phone: +353 4830252771 ๐Ÿ“ž
E-mail: richard.troope@kosicorp.com ๐Ÿ“ง
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 3

Complementary information
Review body
Postal code: Dublin 7
Information about review deadlines:
He 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 2021/S 100-264844 (2021-05-21)