Digital Accessibility Compliance

Short description

ESB seeks to engage with a third-party provider who has expertise in the area of Digital Accessibility Compliance. The successful candidate will be required to work with ESB business on a number of new and developing digital products to ensure they are accessibility compliant.

Additional information

1) Interested parties must register their interest on the eTenders website

(http://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 (http://www.etenders.gov.ie/) only. Registration is free

of charge. The contracting entity 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 entity 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 competentauthorities.

5) It will be a condition of award that candidates are tax compliant.

6) If for any reason it is not possible to admit to the contract one or more of

the tenderers invited following the conclusion of this competitive process, or

having awarded a contract, the contracting entity reserves the right to invite

the next highest scoring tenderer to join the contract and/or deliver the

contract as appropriate to the circumstances pertaining to said contract.

7) At its absolute discretion, the contracting entity may elect to terminate

this procurement process at any time.

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

entity 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.

Short description

Under the 2020 EU Regulations, public sector bodies in Ireland are required to make their websites and mobile applications accessible by ensuring they meet the 4 principles of accessibility: Perceivable, Operable, Understandable and Robust (POUR principles). This is achieved in practice by designing, developing, testing and auditing websites and applications for conformance to the WCAG standard (level 2.1 and above).