Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-04-20
Buyer: Enterprise Ireland
Country: IE
Region: IRELAND
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 72221000: Business analysis consultancy services | 75100000 | 75112000 | 79000000 | 79310000
Estimated value: 100000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2016-05-09
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Services as described in the questionnaire for client companies of Enterprise Ireland targeting the Nigerian market. A 1-year contract with the option to extend for 2 additional years.
Options to continue the service after the initial contract duration of 1 year for 2 additional years.
A grouping if successful must be prepared to contract as a single entity having joint and several liability.
Please refer to the questionnaire available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 104481.
At least 5 firms will be invited to the next stage of the tender process, on foot of assessment of responses to the qualification questionnaire and subject to that number meeting the minimum criteria and rules.
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 from the Revenue Commissioners when requested.
6) If for any reason it is not possible to award the contract to the chosen tenderer or the tenderer fails to deliver the services in accordance with the terms and conditions, the contracting authority reserves the right to award the contract to the next highest scoring tenderer without reopening competition.
7) At its absolute discretion, the contracting authority may elect to terminate this procurement process and any contract awarded.
8) Please note that responses must be submitted via www.etenders.gov.ie only. It is the responsibility of suppliers to register on the website and familiarise themselves with the submission process.
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.
10) This notice is being published on a voluntary basis in the OJEU as the contract is for a service which is a non-priority service (Annex IIB) and therefore not subject to the full rigours of the public procurement directive (2004/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council). As this contract will be awarded after 18.4.2016 the same rules apply to the services as defined under the applicable directive at that time 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council.

Eligibility requirements: Please refer to the questionnaire available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 104481. Please refer to the questionnaire available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 104481. Please refer to the questionnaire available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 104481.
Please refer to the questionnaire available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 104481.