The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is seeking a cloud based solution for the provision of a resilient Internet access service to guests and clients visiting public service offices
Object Scope of the procurement
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“The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is seeking a cloud based solution for the provision of a resilient Internet access service to guests and...”
Title
The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is seeking a cloud based solution for the provision of a resilient Internet access service to guests and clients visiting public service offices.
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Products/services: Internet services📦
Short description: Guest Internet Access Solution
Estimated value excluding VAT: EUR 550 000 💰
The Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform is seeking a cloud based solution for the provision of a resilient Internet access service to guests and clients visiting public service offices.
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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 550 000 💰
Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
The time frame below is expressed in number of months.
Description
Duration: 48
Additional information: The contract is for 36 months with an option to extend for another 12 months
Legal, economic, financial and technical information Economic and financial standing
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
Technical and professional ability
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
Procedure Type of procedure
Open procedure
Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system
Framework agreement with a single operator
Administrative information
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 2023-05-10
13:00 📅
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: 3
Conditions for opening of tenders: 2023-05-10
13:00 📅
Complementary information Review body
Name: The High Court
Postal town: Dublin
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Source: OJS 2023/S 070-213620 (2023-04-05)
Contract award notice (2023-07-11) Object Scope of the procurement
Total value of the procurement (excluding VAT): EUR 252 460 💰
Award criteria
Quality criterion (name): Technical Merit
Quality criterion (weighting): 35%
Quality criterion (name): Customer Service
Quality criterion (weighting): 10%
Quality criterion (name): Environmental
Quality criterion (weighting): 5%
Price (weighting): 50%
Information about options
Options ✅
Description of options:
“The initial requirement is for a solution that facilitates up to 6,000 guest internet connections per day. As demand for this service may exceed 6,000...”
Description of options
The initial requirement is for a solution that facilitates up to 6,000 guest internet connections per day. As demand for this service may exceed 6,000 connections per day over the term of the contract, the Contracting Authority is including an option to increase the number of guest connections in additional increments of 2,000 connections per day. For example when the threshold of 6,000 connections per day is exceeded the Contracting Authority will increase the number of connections per day to 8,000. If the threshold of 8,000 connections is reached the Contracting Authority will increase the no. of connections per day to 10,000 etc..
The Contracting Authority is including an option to increase the bandwidth in increments of 1Gb at both Data Centres if demand for the service results in traffic levels that exceeds the available bandwidth.
The contracting Authority is including an option to increase the term of the contract by 12 months.
The Contracting Authority does not commit to calling off any additional capacity for user connections or connectivity bandwidth over and above the initial requirements.
Procedure Information about framework agreement
The procurement involves the establishment of a framework agreement
Administrative information
Previous publication concerning this procedure: 2023/S 070-213620
Award of contract
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Contract Number: 1
Title: Guest Internet Access
Date of conclusion of the contract: 2023-06-29 📅
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 1
Number of tenders received by electronic means: 1
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators ✅ Name and address of the contractor
Name: Vodafone
National registration number: 326967
Postal address: Mountainview, Leopardstown
Postal town: Dublin 18
Postal code: Dublin
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 879370754📞
E-mail: louise.keague@vodafone.com📧
Region: Éire/Ireland🏙️
URL: http://www.vodafone.com🌏
The contractor is an SME
Name: Soft Telecom
National registration number: 6404412D
Postal address: Fitzwilliam Hall, Fitzwilliam Place,
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: D01PF72
Phone: +353 863844671📞
E-mail: michael.doyle@per.gov.ie📧
The contractor is an SME ✅ Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Estimated total value of the contract/lot: EUR 500 000 💰
Total value of the contract/lot: EUR 252 460 💰
Source: OJS 2023/S 134-426234 (2023-07-11)