Provision of Banking and Purchasing Card Services

Fรกilte Ireland-National Tourism Development Authority

Fรกilte Ireland wishes to establish contracts for the provision of the following:
Banking Services, Merchant Card Services and Online Payment Services
Purchasing Card Services

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2022-05-04. The procurement was published on 2022-04-01.

Who? What? Where?
Procurement history
Date Document
2022-04-01 Contract notice
2022-05-05 Additional information
2022-05-16 Contract award notice
Contract notice (2022-04-01)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Banking services
Reference number: FI/2022/01 & FI/2022/02
Short description:
Fรกilte Ireland wishes to establish contracts for the provision of the following: Banking Services, Merchant Card Services and Online Payment Services Purchasing Card Services
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: Banking services ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Additional CPV: Banking and investment services 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 code: 1
Postal town: Dublin
Contact
Internet address: http://www.failteireland.ie ๐ŸŒ
E-mail: procurement@failteireland.ie ๐Ÿ“ง
Phone: +353 18847783 ๐Ÿ“ž
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=210882&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE ๐ŸŒ
URL for participation: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=210882&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE ๐ŸŒ

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2022-04-01 ๐Ÿ“…
Submission deadline: 2022-05-04 ๐Ÿ“…
Publication date: 2022-04-06 ๐Ÿ“…
Identifiers
Notice number: 2022/S 068-180525
OJ-S issue: 68
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, participants or tenderers. 4) Establishment of this contract will be subject to the approval of the competent authorities. 5) If for any reason it is not possible to conclude the contract with the designated successful tenderer emerging from this competitive process; or if having concluded contract the contracting authority considers that the successful tenderer has not met, or cannot meet its obligations; the contracting authority reserves the right to contract with the next highest scoring tenderer 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, 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/questionnaires with missing or incomplete information. Therefore, tenderers/candidates are advised to ensure that they return FULLY COMPLETED tenders/questionnaires in order to avoid the risk of elimination from the competition at the evaluation/application stage.
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Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
Fรกilte Ireland wishes to establish contracts for the provision of the following:
Banking Services, Merchant Card Services and Online Payment Services
Purchasing Card Services
Estimated total value: 2 000 000 EUR ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Title of the lot: Provision of Banking Services
Lot number: 1
Short description:
ยท Banking Services
ยท Merchant Card Services and
ยท Online Payment Services
Duration: 84 months
Title of the lot: Purchasing Card Services
Lot number: 2
Short description:
The Fรกilte Ireland Purchasing Card is a credit card-based system used by designated cardholders who are empowered to order goods and services.

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

Procedure
Legal basis: 32014L0024
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: 2023-05-04 ๐Ÿ“…
Tender opening date: 2022-05-04 ๐Ÿ“…
Tender opening time: 12:00

Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: N/a
Contact
Contact point: Sabrina Jones
Internet address: www.failteireland.ie ๐ŸŒ
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=210882&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE ๐ŸŒ

Reference
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
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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 this contract will be subject to the approval of the competent authorities.
5) If for any reason it is not possible to conclude the contract with the designated successful tenderer emerging from this competitive process; or if having concluded contract the contracting authority considers that the successful tenderer has not met, or cannot meet its obligations; the contracting
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authority reserves the right to contract with the next highest scoring tenderer 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, 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/questionnaires with missing or incomplete information. Therefore, tenderers/candidates are advised to ensure that they return FULLY COMPLETED tenders/questionnaires in order to avoid the risk of elimination from the competition at the evaluation/application stage.
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Complementary information
Review body
Name: High Court
Postal address: Chief Registrar, The Four Courts
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: 7
Country: Ireland ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
Phone: +353 18886000 ๐Ÿ“ž
Internet address: www.courts.ie ๐ŸŒ
Information about review deadlines:
The contracting authority will not conclude this contract to which a standstill period applies in accordance with Irish Statutory Instrument SI 130 of 2010, 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 contract 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 contract.
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Source: OJS 2022/S 068-180525 (2022-04-01)
Additional information (2022-05-05)
Object
Notice metadata
Document type: Additional information
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Financial transaction processing and clearing-house services ๐Ÿ“ฆ

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2022-05-05 ๐Ÿ“…
Submission deadline: 2022-05-11 ๐Ÿ“…
Publication date: 2022-05-10 ๐Ÿ“…
Identifiers
Notice number: 2022/S 090-248626
Refers to notice: 2022/S 068-180525
OJ-S issue: 90
Source: OJS 2022/S 090-248626 (2022-05-05)
Contract award notice (2022-05-16)
Object
Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice

Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2022-05-16 ๐Ÿ“…
Publication date: 2022-05-20 ๐Ÿ“…
Identifiers
Notice number: 2022/S 098-271400
OJ-S issue: 98

Procedure
Award criteria
Quality criterion (name): Depth and range of banking services to meet specific requirements
Quality criterion (weighting): 25
Quality criterion (name): Electronic business banking capability
Implementation
Quality criterion (weighting): 10
Quality criterion (name): Professional Resources, SLA and Value Added Services
Quality criterion (weighting): 20
Cost criterion (name): Ultimate Cost
Cost criterion (weighting): 20
Quality criterion (name): Fitness for purpose for the proposed solution
Quality criterion (weighting): 30
Quality criterion (name): Contract management and resource allocation
Integration with other systems
Quality criterion (weighting): 15
Cost criterion (name): Ul
Cost criterion (weighting): 10
Source: OJS 2022/S 098-271400 (2022-05-16)