Gas Networks Ireland (GNI) intends to procure IT Applications Maintenance, Support and Development Services for its enterprise applications. GNI has a broad estate of applications, which are critical to the day-to-day operation of our business. GNI require a service provider to support, maintain and deliver change to our application estate and such services will be aligned IT industry best practice with a strong quality assurance focus.
Please note that the composition of GNI’s application estate will likely be subject to change during the lifetime of the service and the service will evolve to meet these changing business needs in accordance with the specific agreed terms of the service.
GNI will build a strong working relationship with the successful service provider, who will work in collaboration with our in-house IT teams
Please refer to the PQQ document for further information.
Deadline
The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2022-08-08.
The procurement was published on 2022-07-05.
Object Scope of the procurement
Title: 22/004 - Enterprise Application Management Framework
22/004
Products/services: Computer audit services📦
Short description:
“Gas Networks Ireland (GNI) intends to procure IT Applications Maintenance, Support and Development Services for its enterprise applications. GNI has a broad...”
Short description
Gas Networks Ireland (GNI) intends to procure IT Applications Maintenance, Support and Development Services for its enterprise applications. GNI has a broad estate of applications, which are critical to the day-to-day operation of our business. GNI require a service provider to support, maintain and deliver change to our application estate and such services will be aligned IT industry best practice with a strong quality assurance focus.
Please note that the composition of GNI’s application estate will likely be subject to change during the lifetime of the service and the service will evolve to meet these changing business needs in accordance with the specific agreed terms of the service.
GNI will build a strong working relationship with the successful service provider, who will work in collaboration with our in-house IT teams
Please refer to the PQQ document for further information.
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Additional products/services: Programming services of application software📦
Additional products/services: Internet and intranet software development services📦
Additional products/services: IT software development services📦
Additional products/services: Software development services utilities📦
Additional products/services: General utility software development services📦
Additional products/services: Systems support services📦
Additional products/services: Software support services📦
Additional products/services: Software development services📦
Additional products/services: Computer back-up services📦
Place of performance: Éire/Ireland🏙️
Main site or place of performance: Ireland
Description of the procurement: 22/004 - Enterprise Application Management Framework
Award criteria
Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
The time frame below is expressed in number of months.
Description
Duration: 60
Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
This contract is subject to renewal ✅ Description
Description of renewals: Option to extend for further periods up to a maximum of 36 months
Information about the limits on the number of candidates to be invited
Envisaged number of candidates: 5
Information about options
Options ✅
Description of options:
“Five (5) Applicants will be invited to tender, provided five Applicants submit compliant PQQ Responses that meet the minimum requirements.
If there is more...”
Description of options
Five (5) Applicants will be invited to tender, provided five Applicants submit compliant PQQ Responses that meet the minimum requirements.
If there is more than one Applicant ranked at fifth place, all the fifth placed Applicants will be invited to tender.
If at ITN stage (and prior to submission of the tenders) a successful Applicant withdraws from the competition the Contracting Entity reserves the right to invite the next ranked compliant Applicant from the PQQ stage to submit a tender. The Contracting Entity may extend the submission date of the ITN in order to facilitate this change
Option to extend for further periods up to a maximum of 36 months
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Additional information:
“You must submit through the eTenders system before the deadline. The system will automatically lockdown at the exact time specified in the PQQ documents....”
Additional information
You must submit through the eTenders system before the deadline. The system will automatically lockdown at the exact time specified in the PQQ documents. Tenders that are not fully uploaded by the response deadline will not be accepted by the system.
Please submit via the eTenders system not later than 12:00hrs local time on Mon 8th Aug 22.
Help Guides: www.etenders.gov.ie/system-user-guides
Legal, economic, financial and technical information Conditions for participation
List and brief description of conditions: Refer to tender documents.
Economic and financial standing
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
Technical and professional ability
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
Conditions for participation
Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
“Requests to participate may be submitted by single entities or by groups of service providers. A group will not be required to convert into a specific legal...”
Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded
Requests to participate may be submitted by single entities or by groups of service providers. A group will not be required to convert into a specific legal form in order to submit a request to participate, but may if the Contracting Entity considers it necessary to ensure that the contract is carried out to its satisfaction, be required to do so prior to award of the contract. The Contracting Entity also reserves the right to contract with each member of the group on the basis of joint and several liability, or with one member of the group as a main contractor with a number of sub-contractors or on any other basis as the Contracting Entity considers appropriate.
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Reserved to a particular profession
Reference to the relevant law, regulation or administrative provision: Please refer to the PQQ document for further information.
Information about staff responsible for the performance of the contract
Obligation to indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff assigned to performing the contract
Procedure Type of procedure
Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system
Framework agreement with a single operator
Administrative information
Previous publication concerning this procedure: 2022/S 055-144944
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 2022-08-08
12:00 📅
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: Irish 🗣️
The time frame below is expressed in number of months.
Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender: 6
Complementary information Information about recurrence
This is a recurrent procurement ✅ Information about electronic workflows
Electronic ordering will be used
Electronic invoicing will be accepted
Electronic payment will be used
Additional information
“You must submit through the etenders system before the deadline. The submission deadline is strict & no submissions will be possible after the date & time...”
You must submit through the etenders system before the deadline. The submission deadline is strict & no submissions will be possible after the date & time specified in the PQQ documents. Please note that all tenders
are electronic, as such NO paper copies will be accepted or read. Please submit via the etenders system not later than 12:00 hrs local time on Monday 8th August 2022
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Name: The High Court
Postal address: High Court Central Office, Four Courts, Inns Quay,
Postal town: Dublin
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 18886000📞
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie📧
URL: http://www.courts.ie🌏 Review procedure
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:
“Please refer to Statutory Instrument 131 of 2010, European Communities (Award of Contracts by Utility Undertaking) (Review Procedures) Regulations 2010 (and...”
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures
Please refer to Statutory Instrument 131 of 2010, European Communities (Award of Contracts by Utility Undertaking) (Review Procedures) Regulations 2010 (and in particular Regulation 7 and 10(2)).
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Source: OJS 2022/S 130-371898 (2022-07-05)