ESB wishes to appoint a service provider to deliver some or all of the following services:
- Bill Printing and Ancillary Printing Services
- Payroll Printing Service
- Contingency Arrangements
- Stationery Management
- Print Formatting
- Transition Arrangements
- Destruction and Disposal.
Deadline
The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2022-04-25.
The procurement was published on 2022-03-24.
Object Scope of the procurement
Title: Printing Outsourced Services
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Products/services: Printing and delivery services📦
Short description:
“ESB wishes to appoint a service provider to deliver some or all of the following services:
- Bill Printing and Ancillary Printing Services
- Payroll...”
Short description
ESB wishes to appoint a service provider to deliver some or all of the following services:
- Bill Printing and Ancillary Printing Services
- Payroll Printing Service
- Contingency Arrangements
- Stationery Management
- Print Formatting
- Transition Arrangements
- Destruction and Disposal.
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Place of performance: Éire/Ireland🏙️
Description of the procurement:
“ESB currently prints on average 20,000 bills per day. These bills are printed using outsourced partner bill printing capability on print on demand (POD)...”
Description of the procurement
ESB currently prints on average 20,000 bills per day. These bills are printed using outsourced partner bill printing capability on print on demand (POD) solution.
PAYG Statements are issued to customers every 3 months. The volumes printed are approximately 60,000 three times a year.
Payroll: 300 000 payroll/annually ( 3,500 per week and 1,800 forth-nightly and 6,500 per month).
Ancillary Printing Services: There are various letters that are required that include New Connection Agreements, Long Term No Access Letters (LTNA), Meter sheets and the volumes for each of these can vary each month.
ESB operates in a dynamic, competitive marketplace and wishes to leverage value from available technology and print management capability within the print industry. Due to the nature and scale of changes within the energy market ESB will require from its service provider a range of capabilities for innovative, flexible and fast responses to different technical, commercial and service demands, reflecting best practice in the industry.
Show more 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: 36
Information about the limits on the number of candidates to be invited
Envisaged number of candidates: 5
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates:
“It is anticipated that the 5 highest-scored Applicants will be short-listed and invited to proceed to the next stage of the Procurement process.” Description
Additional information:
“As stated in the pre-qualification information memorandum available on request from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 210440.”
Legal, economic, financial and technical information Conditions for participation
List and brief description of conditions:
“As stated in Procurement Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 210440.” 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
List and brief description of rules and criteria:
“As stated in Procurement Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 210440.”
Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:
“As stated in Procurement Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 210440.”
Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
“As stated in Procurement Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 210440.” Conditions related to the contract
Contract performance conditions:
“As stated in Procurement Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 210440.” 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
Information about reduction of the number of solutions or tenders during negotiation or dialogue
Recourse to staged procedure to gradually reduce the number of solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiated
Administrative information
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 2022-04-25
12:00 📅
Estimated date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates: 2022-05-31 📅
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
The time frame below is expressed in number of months.
Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender: 12
Complementary information Information about electronic workflows
Electronic ordering will be used
Electronic invoicing will be accepted
Electronic payment will be used
Additional information
“As stated in Procurement Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 210440.” Review body
Name: Chief Registrar
Postal address: Four Courts, Inns Quay
Postal town: Dublin 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 18886000📞
URL: http://www.courts.ie🌏
Source: OJS 2022/S 062-164494 (2022-03-24)
Contract award notice (2024-01-08) Contracting authority Name and addresses
Postal address: 27 Lower Fitzwilliam Street
Contact person: Laura Govan
Phone: +353 876369838📞
E-mail: laura.govan@esb.ie📧
Procedure Information about framework agreement
The procurement involves the establishment of a framework agreement
Administrative information
Previous publication concerning this procedure: 2022/S 062-164494
Information about termination of call for competition in the form of a prior information notice
The contracting authority will not award any further contracts based on the above prior information notice
Award of contract
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Contract Number: 1
Title: Printing Outsourced Services
Information on non-award
Other reasons (discontinuation of procedure)
Complementary information Additional information
“This PQQ will is now cancelled and will be replaced by TR653 - ESB Complete Print and CX Service”
Source: OJS 2024/S 009-020054 (2024-01-08)