Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-06-29
Buyer: National Transport Authority
Country: IE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 30233000 | 30233100 | 30233110 | 30233120 | 30233130
Submission deadline: 2018-08-01
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Invitation to Tender for the Supply of Servers, Storage and Network Devices and a Multi-Supplier Framework Agreement for the Supply of Servers, Storage and Network Devices
1) Award of the contract for Supply of Servers, Storage and Network Devices to the most economically advantageous tender; and
2) Establishment of a Framework Agreement for Supply of Servers, Storage and Network Devices based on the 3 highest ranked Tenderers from 1 above.
1) Upgrade of the Virtual Desktop Environment to support increased resilience and an increased user base. The strategy involves procuring new infrastructure for the primary environment and to move the aging infrastructure from the primary to the Disaster Recovery environment;
2) Expansion of the Route modelling Environment to support increased compute and storage requirements of the modelling team.
1) Award of the contract for Supply of Servers, Storage and Network Devices to the most economically advantageous tender based on the contract award criteria; and
2) Establishment of a Framework Agreement for Supply of Servers, Storage and Network Devices based on the three highest ranked Tenderers from 1 above.
1) Upgrade of the Virtual Desktop Environment to support increased resilience (from 99 % to 99.9 %) and an increased user base (up from 180 to 250). The strategy involves procuring new infrastructure for the primary environment and to move the aging infrastructure from the primary to the Disaster Recovery (DR) environment. The requirement is described in more detail below.
2) Expansion of the Route modelling Environment to support increased compute and storage requirements of the modelling team. The requirement is described in more detail in below.
— Infrastructure relocation to Cloud – re-location of the Authority’s Journey Planner and Real Time Passenger Information Systems to the cloud.
— Bus market Opening Systems – It is envisaged that the Bus Market Opening programme will lead to at least 4 new systems that will be hosted in the cloud.
— System Expansion – the Authority expects to expand the storage and compute infrastructure in early 2019 to accommodate new systems.
— Business Intelligence – it is expected that the Authority will deploy a more extensive Business Intelligence Platform.
The contracting authority will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates or tenderers relating to this contract award procedure irrespective of the outcome of the competition, or if the competition is postponed or cancelled. All costs incurred by interested parties in participating in this competition must be borne by them.
Any contract award will be subject to a number of preconditions, including production of a current tax clearance certificate or tax clearance statement from the Revenue Commissioners in Ireland. The contracting authority may terminate this competition (or any part thereof), change the basis of and the procedures for the bidding process, at any time, or procure the project by alternative means if it appears that the project can thereby be more advantageously procured. The most economically advantageous or any tender will not automatically be accepted.

Eligibility requirements: As set out in the tender documents.