Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2018-07-17
Buyer: Dublin City Council
Country: IE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72210000: Software programming services | 72212220 | 72212222 | 72212224 | 72212610
Estimated value: 800000 EUR
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Provision of Managed Services together with Application and Development Services for DCC’s Open Source Web Environment
Respondents to this tender will be required to provide Drupal (and other Open Source technologies) Services and Support. The successful tenderer will work with the IS Department in Dublin City Council(DCC).
They will also work with the application business owners, and with User Interface/ Web Design consultants. Future development of the website(s) will be designed by these consultants. DCC will require a range of services.
For further information, please refer to a detailed description of these services - available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie RFT ID: 129305.
Respondents to this tender will be required to provide Drupal (and other Open Source technologies) Services and Support. The successful tenderer will engage directly with the Information Systems (IS) Department in Dublin City Council.
They will also work with the business owners of the application, and with User Interface/ Web Design consultants. Any future development of the website(s) will be designed by these consultants.
b) Application Support on a fixed price basis for Drupal including customisations carried out for DCC. Application Support will include maintenance and patching of the core Drupal product. It will also include support for the customised components of the Drupal install. The www.dublindocklands.ie website re-used some of the customisation work that was carried out for www.dublincity.ie
c) Application Support for other Open Source applications including WordPress and Moodle/Totara. This support will include ensuring that the core product is maintained and kept up to date.
The customised component of the WordPress application is maintained by a third party. There is a requirement to provide access to the WordPress install for this third party to facilitate work and upgrades to the customised component of the WordPress application.
d) Project work and change requests as required. We anticipate carrying out further developments on our existing codebase under this Framework.
e) Future Proofing – We would like advice for each application to ensure that the application install we are using is future proofed. This will include upgrades to future versions of Drupal/WordPress/Moodle)Totara), new functionality and optimisation of security and accessibility.
For further information, please refer to documentation, available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie, RFT ID: 129305.
For further information, please refer to documentation, available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie RFT ID: 129305.
Provision of Managed Services together with Application and Development Services for DCC’s Open Source Web Environment
1) Dublin City Council is subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act (FOI) 2014. If you consider that any of the information supplied by you is either commercially sensitive or confidential in nature, this should be highlighted and the reasons for the sensitivity specified. In such cases, the relevant material, will in response to the FOI request; be examined in the light of the exemptions provided for in the Act.


Winner: Enovation Solutions
Award value: 800000
Number of bids: 2