Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2021-07-20
Buyer: Met Éireann, a line division of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage(DHLGH)
Country: IE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 48222000 | 48460000 | 48462000 | 71351600 | 72000000
Estimated value: 580000 EUR
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
Met Éireann intend to engage in a competitive process for the establishment of a framework agreement for the development, installation, support, and hosting of a FEWS Integrator for the Flood Forecasting Centre. The framework agreement will be established on foot of this tender competition/a competition for an initial contract for the development of a Delft-FEWS platform in an operational setting, integrating data management and forecasting tasks for several larger catchments (hereafter referred to as Hydrometric Areas) into a National Scale Flood Forecasting system. The working platform must facilitate flood forecasting at both a National and Catchment level. The tender will be required to integrate 3rd party hydrological model software into the Delft-FEWS platform. The platform will be cloud based and be geo-resilient. During the competition the mechanism for appointing the successful tenderer was changed from a framework to service contract
Met Éireann intend to engage in a competitive process for the establishment of a framework agreement for the development, installation, support, and hosting of a FEWS Integrator for the Flood Forecasting Centre. The framework agreement will be established on foot of this tender competition/a competition for an initial contract for the development of a Delft-FEWS platform in an operational setting, integrating data management and forecasting tasks for several larger catchments (hereafter referred to as Hydrometric Areas) into a National Scale Flood Forecasting system. The working platform must facilitate flood forecasting at both a National and Catchment level. The tender will be required to integrate 3rd party hydrological model software into the Delft-FEWS platform. The platform will be cloud based and be geo-resilient. During the competition the mechanism for appointing the successful tenderer was changed from a framework to service contract.
The initial contract will be awarded to the successful tenderer shortly after the competition. The initial contract will be awarded to the successful tenderer for 3 years with the option of awarding extensions of 1, 2 or 3 years’ extensions during the life of the framework. During the competition the mechanism for appointing the successful tenderer was changed from a framework to service contract.
Please consult the associated documentation, which contains full instructions regarding the submission of tenders and is available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 178057.
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;
2) Suppliers must register their interest on the eTenders web site (www.etenders.gov.ie) in order to be included on the mailing list for clarifications and to respond electronically to the competition. There is a maximum upload limit of 2GB per document on etenders. Documents larger than this should be divided into smaller files prior to upload or zipped;
3) Should you experience difficulty when uploading documents please contact the eTenders Support Desk for technical assistance. Email etenders@eu-supply.com or Telephone: 353 (0) 21 243 92 77 (9.00 – 17.30 p.m. GMT);
4) All queries regarding this tender requirement or process must be submitted through the Irish Government Procurement Opportunities Portal www.etenders.gov.ie (RFT ID:178057) as a specific question. Responses will be circulated to those tenderers that have registered an interest in this notice on www.etenders.gov.ie The details of the person making a query will not be disclosed when circulating the response;
6) The contracting authority will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates or tenderers;
9) At its absolute discretion, the contracting authority may elect to terminate this procurement process or any contract awarded at any time;
10) 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;
11) Without prejudice to the principle of equal treatment, the contracting authority is not obliged to engage in a clarification process in respect of the procurement documents with missing or incomplete information. Therefore, respondents are advised to ensure that they return completed documentation in order to avoid the risk of elimination from the competition;
12) At Section II.2.9 we have indicated that 3 or 5 will be invited to tender, please note that the contracting authority reserves the right to invite at least 3 or 5 subject to that number qualifying.
The contract is covered by the application of the Remedies Directive and the relevant standstill period applied at time of notification


Winner: IMDC
Award value: 580000
Number of bids: 2