Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-01-24
Buyer: EirGrid plc
Country: IE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 48600000 | 72212610 | 72320000 | 72321000
Estimated value: 11000000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2019-02-26
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: As part of the European Market Integration Project (EMIP), EirGrid invested in the Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) suite utilising the Oracle Service Bus (OSB), Oracle Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) Process Manager, Oracle Business-to-Business (B2B), and Oracle Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) products to integrate the various I-SEM market systems. The Oracle SOA suite was used in the I-SEM Market Trial and is being supported by the programme for 1 year post deployment into production from 1.10.2018.
Candidates are invited to submit a qualification application for inclusion on the tender list in accordance with this PQQ.
The Framework Agreement period will be for an initial duration of 3 years with the option to extend annually for up to an additional 5 years, subject always to the satisfactory performance of the supplier.
— report on Oracle Middleware incident/errors and stability of the environment along agreed reporting schedule;
A key component of the service will be continual service improvement and the successful tenderer will be expected to outline improvements throughout the duration of the contract.
This will include Oracle release schedules and their relevance to the EirGrid business, organisation and management of infrastructure roadmaps, etc.
The initial contract period envisaged is 3 years with the possibility to extend annually up to a further 5 years, subject always to the satisfactory performance of the supplier.
The estimated spend of 11 000 000 EUR is taking into account the full duration of the contract including the possible extensions.
1) Interested parties must register their interest on the eTenders web site (www.etenders.gov.ie) in order to be included on the mailing list for clarifications. All information relating to attachments, including clarifications and changes, will be published on the Irish Government Procurement Opportunities Portal (www.etenders.gov.ie) only. Registration is free of charge. The contracting authority will not accept responsibility for information relayed (or not relayed) via third parties;
3) The contracting authority will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates or tenderers;
5) It will be a condition of award that candidates are tax compliant and are in a position to produce a valid tax clearance certificate or eTax Clearance from the Revenue Commissioners when requested;
6) If for any reason it is not possible to award the contract 1 or more of the tenderers invited following the conclusion of this competitive process, the contracting authority reserves the right to award the contract to the next ranked tenderer as appropriate;
7) At its absolute discretion, the contracting authority may elect to terminate this procurement process or any contract awarded;
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 authority 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.

Eligibility requirements: Please see Information Memorandum and Pre-Qualification Questionnaire attached to this notice.

Award value: 11000000