A Financial Management Solution (FMS) using a Software as a Service (SaaS)

Contract notice (2025-03-24)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: A Financial Management Solution (FMS) using a Software as a Service (SaaS)
Short description: Type of contract: Services
Products/services: System and support services 📦
Estimated value excluding VAT: 60 000 000 EUR 💰
Description
Internal identifier: 0
This procurement is also suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) ✅
Additional products/services: Aim of strategic procurement: Reduction of environmental impacts
As set out in the Published RFT
Approach to reducing environmental impacts: Climate change mitigation
Green Procurement Criteria: National Green Public Procurement criteria
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Place of performance: Extra-Regio NUTS 3 🏙️
Information about options
Options ✅
Description of options: As per the Published RFT
Information about the limits on the number of candidates to be invited
Envisaged minimum number: 3
Maximum number: 5
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0001
Description
Place of performance: Extra-Regio NUTS 3 🏙️

Procedure
Type of procedure
Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition ✅
Legal basis: Directive 2014/24/EU
Administrative information
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 2025-05-12 12:00:00 📅
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
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 ✅
Tendering terms
Tenderers may submit more than one tender
Advanced or qualified electronic signature or seal (as defined in Regulation (EU) No 910/2014) is required
Electronic invoicing: Required
Electronic ordering will be used ✅
Electronic payment will be used ✅
Deadline for requesting additional information: 2025-05-02 12:00:00 📅
Additional information: as set out in the RFT
The contract has performance execution conditions ✅

Contracting authority
Name and addresses
Name: Department of Education
National registration number: N/a
Postal address: Marlborough Street
Postal code: D01 RC96
Postal town: Dublin 1
Region: Extra-Regio NUTS 3 🏙️
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Contact point: info@education.gov.ie
E-mail: info@education.gov.ie 📧
Phone: 018896400 📞
URL: https://www.education.ie/ 🌏
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.education.ie/ 🌏
Type of the contracting authority
Ministry or any other national or federal authority
Main activity
Education
Information about joint procurement
The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body ✅
Communication
Documents URL: https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/listContractDocuments.do?resourceId=5321812 🌏
Participation URL: https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/viewTenders.do?resourceId=5321812 🌏
Name: All communications must be routed through the etenders.gov.ie platform. No other communication method or channel is allowed, nor will contact/messaging outside of the etenders.gov.ie messaging functionality be actioned/ responded to.
There is a maximum number of candidates to be invited for the second stage of the procedure ✅
The criteria will be used to select the candidates to be invited for the second stage of the procedure ✅
Electronic submission: Required

Complementary information
Review body
Name: The High Court of Ireland
National registration number: The High Court of Ireland
Department: The High Court of Ireland
Postal address: Four Courts, Inns Quay, Dublin 7
Postal code: D07 WDX8
Postal town: Dublin
Region: Dublin 🏙️
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie 📧
Phone: +353 1 8886000 📞
Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Same as: Review body
Review procedure
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures: as per the Published RFT
Information about electronic workflows
Electronic invoicing will be accepted
Source: OJS 2025/S 060-194736 (2025-03-24)