Fáilte 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.
Object Scope of the procurement
Title: Provision of Banking and Purchasing Card Services
FI/2022/01 & FI/2022/02
Products/services: Banking services📦
Short description:
“Fáilte Ireland wishes to establish contracts for the provision of the following:
Banking Services, Merchant Card Services and Online Payment...”
Short description
Fáilte Ireland wishes to establish contracts for the provision of the following:
Banking Services, Merchant Card Services and Online Payment Services
Purchasing Card Services
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Estimated value excluding VAT: EUR 2 000 000 💰
Information about lots
Tenders may be submitted for all lots
1️⃣ Scope of the procurement
Title: Provision of Banking Services
Title
Lot Identification Number: 1
Description
Additional products/services: Banking and investment services📦
Additional products/services: Processing and clearing services📦
Additional products/services: Financial transaction processing and clearing-house services📦
Place of performance: Éire/Ireland🏙️
Description of the procurement:
“Fáilte Ireland wishes to establish contracts for the provision of the following:
· Banking Services
· Merchant Card Services and
· Online Payment Services” 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: 84
2️⃣ Scope of the procurement
Title: Purchasing Card Services
Title
Lot Identification Number: 2
Description
Description of the procurement:
“The Fáilte 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
List and brief description of conditions:
“As stated in the ITT document available for downloading from www.etenders.gov.ie” 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 related to the contract
Contract performance conditions:
“As stated in the ITT document available for downloading from www.etenders.gov.ie”
Procedure Type of procedure
Open procedure
Administrative information
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 2022-05-04
12:00 📅
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Tender must be valid until: 2023-05-04 📅
Conditions for opening of tenders: 2022-05-04
12:00 📅
Complementary information Information about electronic workflows
Electronic ordering will be used
Electronic invoicing will be accepted
Electronic payment will be used
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...”
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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Name: High Court
Postal address: Chief Registrar, The Four Courts
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 18886000📞
URL: www.courts.ie🌏 Review procedure
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:
“The contracting authority will not conclude this contract to which a standstill period applies in accordance with Irish Statutory Instrument SI 130 of 2010,...”
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures
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)
Complementary information Original notice reference
Notice number in the OJ S: 2022/S 068-180525
Changes Text to be corrected in the original notice
Section number: IV.2.2
Place of text to be modified: Procedure
Old value
Date: 2022-05-04 📅
Time: 12:00
New value
Date: 2022-05-11 📅
Time: 12:00
Source: OJS 2022/S 090-248626 (2022-05-05)
Contract award notice (2022-05-16) Object Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots ✅ 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
Quality criterion (name): 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
Quality criterion (name): Integration with other systems
Quality criterion (weighting): 15
Cost criterion (name): Ul
Cost criterion (weighting): 10
Procedure Administrative information
Previous publication concerning this procedure: 2022/S 068-180525
Award of contract
1️⃣
Contract Number: 1
Title: Provision of Banking Services
Information on non-award
No tenders or requests to participate were received or all were rejected