Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-04-10
Buyer: Electricity Supply Board (ESB)
Country: IE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72600000
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
— the supply and management of licences and associated maintenance support for ESB's Veritas NetBackup environment which is running on x86 servers, physical and virtual machines, on premise, in remote offices or in Microsoft’s Azure Cloud
— the supply and management of licences and associated maintenance support for ESB's Veritas NetBackup environment which is running on x86 servers, physical and virtual machines, on premise, in Remote offices or in Microsoft’s Azure Cloud;
ESB currently has approximately 1000+ clients protected by NetBackup, which is likely to increase over the contract period. ESB will indicate the volume ranges in the RFT.
ESB’s licence footprint contains a mix of Capacity (240TB) and NEVC (88 Sockets). The current environment is a mix of NetBackup 5230’s and 5240’s with 2 Oracle StorageTek SL150’s.
Vendors must indicate that they are a registered Veritas Gold Partner or higher for the supply and support of NetBackup.
Please refer to the individual instructions for submission of bids relevant to each tender issued via the system.
1) 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: Sabeo Technologies Ltd
Number of bids: 3