Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2022-07-08
Buyer: Gas Networks Ireland
Country: IE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 72212000: Platform-specific software programming services | 72212220 | 72212517 | 72212700: Utility software programming services | 72212771
Submission deadline: 2022-08-08
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Gas Networks Ireland (GNI) intends to procure IT Applications Maintenance, Support and Development Services for its enterprise applications. GNI has a broad estate of applications, which are critical to the day-to-day operation of our business. GNI require a service provider to support, maintain and deliver change to our application estate and such services will be aligned IT industry best practice with a strong quality assurance focus.
Please note that the composition of GNI’s application estate will likely be subject to change during the lifetime of the service and the service will evolve to meet these changing business needs in accordance with the specific agreed terms of the service.
GNI will build a strong working relationship with the successful service provider, who will work in collaboration with our in-house IT teams
Five (5) Applicants will be invited to tender, provided five Applicants submit compliant PQQ Responses that meet the minimum requirements.
If there is more than one Applicant ranked at fifth place, all the fifth placed Applicants will be invited to tender.
If at ITN stage (and prior to submission of the tenders) a successful Applicant withdraws from the competition the Contracting Entity reserves the right to invite the next ranked compliant Applicant from the PQQ stage to submit a tender. The Contracting Entity may extend the submission date of the ITN in order to facilitate this change
You must submit through the eTenders system before the deadline. The system will automatically lockdown at the exact time specified in the PQQ documents. Tenders that are not fully uploaded by the response deadline will not be accepted by the system.
Requests to participate may be submitted by single entities or by groups of service providers. A group will not be required to convert into a specific legal form in order to submit a request to participate, but may if the Contracting Entity considers it necessary to ensure that the contract is carried out to its satisfaction, be required to do so prior to award of the contract. The Contracting Entity also reserves the right to contract with each member of the group on the basis of joint and several liability, or with one member of the group as a main contractor with a number of sub-contractors or on any other basis as the Contracting Entity considers appropriate.
You must submit through the etenders system before the deadline. The submission deadline is strict & no submissions will be possible after the date & time specified in the PQQ documents. Please note that all tenders
are electronic, as such NO paper copies will be accepted or read. Please submit via the etenders system not later than 12:00 hrs local time on Monday 8th August 2022
Please refer to Statutory Instrument 131 of 2010, European Communities (Award of Contracts by Utility Undertaking) (Review Procedures) Regulations 2010 (and in particular Regulation 7 and 10(2)).

Eligibility requirements: Refer to tender documents.