Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2021-05-12
Buyer: Electricity Supply Board (ESB)
Country: IE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72200000
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
ESB is requesting expressions of interest from suitable vendors for the supply and implementation of a robotics process automation platform and automation services. ESB has a large IT application landscape including Microsoft Windows and Server environments, Citrix environments and a SAP environment where a substantial number of business processes take place. Any proposed solution would need to be compatible with all of these environments.
ESB is requesting expressions of interest from suitable vendors for the supply and implementation of a robotics process automation platform and automation services. ESB has a large IT application landscape including Microsoft Windows and Server environments, Citrix environments and a SAP environment where a substantial number of business processes take place. Any proposed solution would need to be compatible with all of these environments. The IT landscape also includes off-the-shelf applications, heavily-customised applications, bespoke and cloud applications. ESB is seeking to automate processes across the organisation and these will range from mission critical to low priority processes. It is estimated that circa. 100 processes will be automated during initial 3-year contract and inclusion of additional processes will be negotiated with successful vendor at contract extension stages. The successful vendor will be expected to comply with ESB’s technical, procedural and IT security standards as directed by the organisation.
If the applicant is not the owner of the proposed software solution please indicate in your response to Section B.1.5 contracting model the preferred contractual/relationship structure.
A full appreciation of the ESB Company can be viewed at the following internet address: http://www.esb.ie/
Resources will be required to be on site in ESB for the implementation of the solution, and available locally and/or remotely during support, training and automation of processes.
ESB reserves the right to extend the contract for 2 years and again by a further 2 years (potential total contract period up to 7 years).
Please refer to the individual instructions for submission of bids relevant to each tender issued via the system.
) It is our intention to use the Irish Government Procurement portal (http://www.etenders.gov.ie/) for this competition. Access to this Portal is free of charge. Interested parties must formally register their expression of interest for this competition on eTenders before they can gain access to the PQQ documentation. All information relating to and including the pre-qualification documents, any clarifications and changes will be issued/published via this portal. The contracting entity will not accept responsibility for information relayed (or not relayed) via third parties;
3) the contracting entity will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates or tenderers;
6) If for any reason it is not possible to admit to the contract one or more of the tenderers invited following the conclusion of this competitive process, or having awarded a contract, the contracting entity reserves the right to invite the next highest scoring tenderer to join the contract and/or deliver the contract as appropriate to the circumstances pertaining to the contract;
7) At its absolute discretion, the contracting entity may elect to terminate this procurement process, the contract awarded at any time;
8) Please note in relation to all documents, that where reference is made to a particular standard, make, source, process, trademark, type or patent, that this is not to be regarded as a de facto requirement. In all such cases it should be understood that such indications are to be treated strictly and solely for reference purposes only, to which the words ‘or equivalent’ will always be appended;
9) Without prejudice to the principle of equal treatment, the contracting entity is not obliged to engage in a clarification process in respect of questionnaires with missing or incomplete information. Therefore, candidates are advised to ensure that they return fully completed questionnaires in order to avoid the risk of elimination from the competition;
10) At Section II.2.9) we have indicated that 5 will be invited to tender, please note that the contracting entity reserves the right to invite at least 5 subject to that number qualifying.


Winner: Chief Registrar