RFT for the provision of Electronic Archiving Services

Education Procurement Service (EPS)

IReL wishes to enter an agreement for Electronic Archiving Services providing a reliable digital preservation solution for licensed publications. The solution must provide long-term preservation of licensed publisher content and provide access to preserved content, should the following occur:
• Cessation of a publisher’s operations
• Discontinuation of a title by a publisher
• Back issues are no longer offered by a publisher
• Catastrophic and sustained failure of a publisher’s delivery platform
The successful tenderer must have existing license agreements with the publishers IReL licenses content from (see https://irel.ie/resources/) to allow the service to preserve the content long-term, and to make the content securely available to IReL member libaries should specific trigger events occur.

Deadline
The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2022-11-07. The procurement was published on 2022-10-07.

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Procurement history
Date Document
2022-10-07 Contract notice
Contract notice (2022-10-07)
Contracting authority
Name and addresses
Name: Education Procurement Service (EPS)
National registration number: IE 6609370 G
Postal address: University of Limerick
Postal town: Castletroy
Postal code: Co.Limerick
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Contact person: Ann Murray
Phone: +353 61234662 📞
E-mail: ann.s.murray@ul.ie 📧
Region: Éire/Ireland 🏙️
URL: http://www.educationprocurementservice.ie 🌏
Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/87073 🌏
Information about joint procurement
The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body
Communication
Documents URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=226221&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
Participation URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=226221&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏

Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: RFT for the provision of Electronic Archiving Services LI2319R
Products/services: Platform interconnectivity software package 📦
Short description:
“IReL wishes to enter an agreement for Electronic Archiving Services providing a reliable digital preservation solution for licensed publications. The...”    Show more
Estimated value excluding VAT: EUR 302 411 💰

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Additional products/services: Imaging and archiving system 📦
Place of performance: Éire/Ireland 🏙️
Description of the procurement:
“IReL wishes to enter an agreement for Electronic Archiving Services providing a reliable digital preservation solution for licensed publications. The...”    Show more
Award criteria
Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
Scope of the procurement
Estimated total value excluding VAT: EUR 302 411 💰
Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
The time frame below is expressed in number of months.
Description
Duration: 36
Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
This contract is subject to renewal
Description
Description of renewals:
“1 to 3 years with option to extend to a total aggregate duration including extensions and other options up to 72months”
Additional information: All information relating to this tender is published on www.etenders.gov.ie

Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
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Economic and financial standing
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Conditions for participation
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Technical and professional ability
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Conditions for participation
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Conditions related to the contract
Contract performance conditions: Please see RFT document for further details.

Procedure
Type of procedure
Restricted procedure
Administrative information
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 2022-11-07 14:00 📅
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️

Complementary information
Review body
Name: Office of the High Court
Postal address: Four Courts Ground Floor, Inns Quay
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 18886000 📞
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie 📧
Source: OJS 2022/S 197-558551 (2022-10-07)