Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-06-04
Buyer: Electricity Supply Board (ESB)
Country: IE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 72251000: Disaster recovery services | 79430000
Submission deadline: 2019-07-01
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: This contract is for business continuity services for ESB to accommodate staff at Dublin, Cork, and Belfast. ESB is inviting pre-qualification applications from suitably qualified interested parties with experience of providing these services and with available existing premises in Dublin, Cork, and Belfast.
Applicants may apply for lot 1, lot 2, lot 3, or for all lots. Applicants must state in their application which lots are being applied for, and if the applicant is applying for more than one lot 2 separate references should be given for each lot applied for.
At this point it is envisaged that the requirement in Dublin will be to accommodate in the range of between 230 to 300 seats.
Following the closing date the contracting entity will evaluate the responses with a view to selecting a list of suitable candidates to be invited to submit a tender for the Framework Agreement for each of the lots to which they have qualified. ESB will invite at least the 5 highest scoring applicants for each lot to the tender stage of this competition, subject to that number qualifying.
The duration of the Framework Agreements will be for 4 years each with an option for ESB to extend for up to a additional further 3 years in one of more increments.
Please refer to the individual instructions for submission of bids relevant to each tender issued via the system.
At this point it is envisaged that the requirement in Cork will be to accommodate in the range of 200 seats.
Following the closing date the contracting entity will evaluate the responses with a view to selecting a list of suitable candidates to be invited to submit a tender for the Framework Agreement for each of the lots to which they have qualified. ESB will invite at least the 5 highest scoring applicants for each lot to the tender stage of this competition, subject to that number qualifying.
The duration of the Framework Agreements will be for 4 years each with an option for ESB to extend for up to an additional further 3 years in one of more increments.
Please refer to the individual instructions for submission of bids relevant to each tender issued via the system.
Following the closing date the contracting entity will evaluate the responses with a view to selecting a list of suitable candidates to be invited to submit a tender for the Framework Agreement for each of the lots to which they have qualified. ESB will invite at least the 5 highest scoring applicants for each lot to the tender stage of this competition, subject to that number qualifying.
The duration of the Framework Agreements will be for 4 years each with an option for ESB to extend for up to an additional further 3 years in one of more increments.
Please refer to the individual instructions for submission of bids relevant to each tender issued via the system.
As stated in Procurement Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID xxxxxx


Eligibility requirements: As stated in Procurement Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID xxxxxx